In a report
released this Wednesday, Samsung proposed its vision regarding mobile
connectivity in the next 10 years. Instead of focusing on 5G, Samsung has taken
one step ahead and is focused on 6G.
Apparently, the
company sees the importance of laying the groundwork of the next-gen speeds of
the future, as it mentioned in the report that “It is the right time to start
preparing for 6G.”
In the list of the
specific services that are predicted to act as the drivers for 6G, Samsung has
mentioned high-fidelity mobile holographic displays and a combination of virtual,
augmented, and mixed-reality applications.
It was further
added in the report that there will be new advanced services in the era of 6G,
which will require a huge amount of data processing in real-time, a super-fast data
rate, and extremely low latency. In order to meet these requirements, several
key benchmarks will need to be achieved, which include 6G providing much higher
data rates than 5G and download speeds of at least 1000 Gbps. This required speed
is nearly 50 times faster than what 5G is supposed to provide. In order to
provide significant reductions in latency, the air latency will need to be less
than 100ms, end-to-end latency must be less than 1ms, and extremely low
delay jitter.
Other than performance
targets, Samsung also pointed out that it aims to improve battery life and
overall energy consumption of both devices and networks by at least 2 times. Once
these requirements are met, less than 10ms user experienced latency will be achieved,
which is the motion-to-photon latency requirement for XR services.
However, with all
of these proposed ideas in relation to the future of 6G, there are no
expectations of it coming into existence any time before a span of another 8
years at least. The company made this point clear as it mentioned in the report
that the completion of the 6G standard and its earliest commercialization could
become a reality only as early as 2028, followed by massive commercialization
around 2030.
