Deutsche Telekom Launches Millimeter Wave 5G Service for Industrial Customers
On June 13, Deutsche Telekom announced the successful trial of a millimeter wave 5G industrial use case in the 26 GHz band. The company is the first in Germany to offer this band commercially to industrial customers already....
2024/06/26
Posted on 2024/06/26
On June 13, Deutsche Telekom announced the successful trial of a millimeter wave 5G industrial use case in the 26 GHz band. The company is the first in Germany to do so and is already offering this band commercially to industrial customers.
According to the company, the first customer is Ger4tech Mechatronik Center, an Austrian metalworking and manufacturing company that is using its millimeter wave 5G technology to control autonomous industrial machinery and robots at the Werner von Siemens Industrial Science Center in Berlin. The center, which is also a facility used by the Technical University of Berlin and the Fraunhofer Institute for research and testing, has a local 5G network built by Ericsson and dual-band 3.7GHz and 26GHz routers provided by Telit Cinterion, a British IoT solutions company. The network has achieved round-trip latency (RTT) of 3 to 4 milliseconds and data transfer rates of more than 4 Gbps for downloads and 2 Gbps for uploads.
Deutsche Telekom explained in a statement that "millimeter wave 5G will power the solution of more complex tasks with increasing communication and data transmission requirements." Klaus Werner, managing director of the company, said, "Uploading data from machines and making it available and analyzable in real time is important for industrial customers in the AI era. This is the only way for companies to deploy AI applications wisely and efficiently and deliver significant business benefits."
