Next Stage of Broadband Will Require Combining Wireless, Satellite Technologies
Combining satellite and terrestrial networks is critical to the next stage of broadband deployment, providing broadband to many people at an affordable cost, said John Baras, systems engineering professor at the University of Maryland, Thursday at a meeting of the…
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Baltimore Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. “You cannot put fiber everywhere,” he said. Most agree 5G “has not fulfilled the promise from several years ago” and “there are several reasons for that,” Baras said. If you combine broadband satellite, both geostationary orbit and low-earth orbit, with terrestrial wireless, you can offer broadband “to many more people at much lower prices,” he said. We need to find a way for at least 80% of the world’s population to have access to broadband, he said. “If we learned anything from the pandemic it’s that if you don’t have broadband you cannot do education, you cannot do healthcare, you cannot do manufacturing,” he said. Baras said AI and machine learning are critical to the future networks, but warned it must be scalable.