BM565 Report: 5G Technology in Digital Business & Innovation

This report delves into the transformative role of 5G technology in the realm of digital business and new technologies. It highlights the importance of 5G, tracing its development from earlier mobile networks and detailing the technologies it employs, such as OFDM, sub-6 GHz, and mm-Wave. The report further examines the diverse applications of 5G across consumer, business, and urban environments, emphasizing its potential to enhance mobile broadband, enable mission-critical communications, and support massive IoT deployments. It also identifies key technological platforms and software, including contributions from companies like Samsung, Ericsson and ZTE, and explores how 5G serves as a business tool by replacing expensive wired connections, improving data transmission speeds, lowering latency, increasing device capacity, and enabling new business models, ultimately concluding that 5G's high speed, compatibility, and reliability make it an effective driver of organizational success.

Digital Business &
New Technologies

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Why you deem this topic to be of importance?...........................................................................3
How this topic has developed?...................................................................................................4
A detailed description of the technology used in this topic and what it is used for....................4
What technological platforms and software are used in the topic?.............................................5
What type of business and organisation uses the technology? ..................................................6
How is it used as a business tool and is this effective?...............................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
A digital business refers to the implementation of technology in business for renew the
models of business and modify the company's product. Following the current scenarios, the
world is transforming in the digitalization, so every business activities are also being transform
into digital businesses. It helps to create the value, innovative product and connect the people.
Whereas new technology also refers to the discovery, invention or innovation of new techniques
and technologies. The new technologies helps to transfer the business into digital business. A 5G
is a new network technology discussed in this report. A 5th generation mobile network is 5G.
This network is made in order to connect people virtually anywhere and at anytime. This report
includes the importance of 5G network, detailed description along with its software and
platforms. What type of business and organisation uses this network and how it is effective is
also discussed in this report.
MAIN BODY
Why you deem this topic to be of importance?
A 5G is a wireless technology which supplies the high speed of data. It is a wireless
mobile network. There are various companies working in the industry of mobile ecosystem
which helps to invent the 5G network. This network is designed in order to make the network
more reliable, compatible and flexible for the future services. The importance of this network has
been discussed below:
 Enhanced Mobile Broadband- This 5G mobile network has make our smartphone
better. As now the internet is being widely used around the globe, at homes, office,
universities and schools. Everyone is working online through the internet and the
population is increasing so the 5g network is developed in order to produce AR and
VR faster, the data rates are uniform, low latency and the cost per bit is also
low(Sousa, and Rocha, 2019) .
 Mission-Critical Communications- This technology helps to transform the manual
work of industries into digitalization which is more reliable and linked to the remote
controlled of infrastructure, medical procedures and vehicles.
 Massive IoT- This network connection helps in enabling the wireless connection at
the transport hubs, necessary for future autonomous vehicle, easy communication

with people and many more. This provides the highly anorectic and low cost
connectivity method.
How this topic has developed?
The 5G network has been developed by the industry mobile ecosystem. The 5G network
is an unified and air interface. This network is designed in order to provide more connectivity
then earlier. This network has the prolonged capacity which helps the upcoming generation also
and empowers the new preparation models and render the services. The 4G LTE is the
foundation a 5G network, as the 4G network connection has lower frequency bands of spectrum.
This was creating the problem of low speed and capacity due to which the 5G network has been
developed. Currently the 3GPP is making many more necessary innovation in the features of 5G
network designs, changing the air interface to the service layer. Another 3GPP 5G ranges from
infrastructure and devices manufactures to the service providers and network operator. The 5G
network is created by using the composition of high to low band frequencies. An one low band
of 5G node can stay connected with 5g devices up-to 100 of square miles(Senyo, Liu, and Effah,
2019).
A detailed description of the technology used in this topic and what it is used for.
A 5G is a orthogonal frequency division multiplexing based network technology. It is a
technology which produces a digital signal over the various channels to decline the interface.
This network uses the air interface NR with OFDM principles. The technology wider band-with
like sub 6 GHz & mm-Wave is also considered in this 5G network. The 5G network can operate
on the same mobile network of 4G principles. But the new 5G wit air interface improves the
OFDM to render the high percentage of scalability and flexibility. This technology has also
expanded its services into new area like mission critical communications and the connectivity
with massive lot. Hence, this technology will be used by more people and it will provide a
variety of things according to different usage. The usage of this technology is explained below:
 The 5G Network Used By Consumers
The 5g network is used at home or for business purposes. The person who wants the fast
connection for streaming, games or work flexibly. As f now the usage of mobile is increasing
and it is becoming the source of entertainment and media. This network helps in reducing the
video traffic as lot of the people are now being connected with cloud computing and experience.
 The 5G Network Used For The Business Purposes

This network has enormous impact on the businesses as it provides the superior quality of
network and high speed of data. It helps to enhance the working of business as it will be easier to
access the more information rapidly. The industries can also use this technology if they need the
high speed and quality of network in their operational work. For example: the smart factories
which are engaged in the sector in which they required the network more to run the industrial
Ethernet. This network can help them in increasing the production and operational
working( Bican, and Brem, 2020).
 The 5G Network Used By The Cities
A metro cities or smart cities, usually in foreign countries. They use the 5G network to transform
the lives of people- more connection between things and people, high speed of data, VR and
entertainment, automotive safety and many more.
What technological platforms and software are used in the topic?
This technology is designed to render the high speed of data up-to the 20Gbps based on
the requirements of the IMT 2020. this network's main aim is to provide the network capacity
through expansion of the bands into new spectrum like mm wave. The network also produces the
lower latency in order to get immediate responses and also furnish the user experiences which
helps to stay data rates systematically high. The development of new 5G NR network is based on
the Gigabit LTE, which provides the omnipresent connection of gigabit class.
The software's and technology platforms used in making up the 5G network is mentioned below:
 OFDM (Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing)- It is developed by the Robert
W. Chang of bell labs in 1966. This software is used in the audio broadcasting and the
digital television. It is majorly used for the wideband digital communication. It is a kind
of digital transmission and process of encoding the digital data in various frequencies.
This technology has the ability to cope up with various channels. Therefore it is used in
5G network so that the network can be used by many people and spread all over the areas
(Shao, Im, Castro, and et. al, 2018).
 sub-6 GHz- It is a frequency band used in 5G network and derived from the 4G LTE. It
offers the wide coverage of technology. It helps in making faster and affordable choices
for initiating the 5G distribution.
 mm-Wave- The millimetre wave is a band of frequency which generates the power
frequency from an enclosed electron to a pulsed magnetic field. This band fulfils the

requirements of the new technology. This have the frequency which ranges between the
30 and 300GHZ. This provide the frequencies from high to low level. In this systems the
antennas are equip in order to execute the situation originate to hold the performance and
working. Thus, in 5G network this band is used in order to provide the high speed of data.
 Cisco – The Cisco software is used in 5G technology which provides the automated,
cloud to client software based network. A Cisco software has contributed in the
development of 5G technology as a cloud first then it is defined as a architecture software
that pair as the services and enterprises render operation smoothly( Rodrik, 2018).
1. 5G itself is a unified platform which is more capable against the 4G.
2. It uses the spectrum
3. This network has low latency.
What type of business and organisation uses the technology?
The 5G technology is operated now in most of the countries at the business &
organisation. This network connects the people to information and people to people. The
industries has gained the revenue by adopting this technology's in US and Europe.
 Samsung – this is also a technology company which deals in smartphones, tablets, TV
and other devices. This company provide the 5G services like radios, chipsets and
network technology in the Korea, japan and US.
 Ericsson – This is the first company to adopt the 5G technology and spread it into 4
various continents. Through their existing hardware the company is able to implement the
technology. The services of this technology through company is being provided in 46
different countries and 97 live networks(Tërstena, Goga, and Jashari, 2020).
 ZTE – It is a cloud company which produces a wide range of 5G products like SDN
controllers, cloud platforms and hardware devices. It provides the 5G services like high
speed mobile broadband and wide compatibility.

How is it used as a business tool and is this effective?
The 5G can be used as a business tool and it's effectiveness for businesses are huge. Their
are some ways of networks which will impact the businesses.
 Replace Expensive Wired Cable With Highly Reliable Cellular Connections- The
maintaining the wired cable connection is the expensive and labour intensive work.
Therefore the company chooses the wireless connection which produces the high speed
of data and handles the more devices. This network replaces the wired connection with
the cellular connection.
 Improve Data Transmission Speed- This network increases the speed of data
transmission. This technology is effective in providing the value of network which carry
the amount of bandwidth with 5g. It increases the application of processing of analytical
and artificial intelligence to all the data. This is helpful for industries like automation
sector.(Dogra, Jha, and Jain, 2020).
 Lower Latency Enables Business Improvements- A latency word is termed as the time
between the data sent and the moment at which the data is received. This is the only
responsible for delays while the video call or phone calls. Thus the 5G network provides
the low latency which is effective in easy communication through various applications.
 Increase Device Capacity- This 5G network has the more capacity to handle with the
comparison of 4G network. This networks offers the company a better reliability and
display that it would no be possible with the help of previous network. This 5G network
helps the company to operate more devices on one network and to transfer and access the
data rapidly.
 Enable New Business Models- This technology helps the company or business in
enabling the new business models. With 5G the innovation can be done which provides a
basis for the capabilities. For example: remote surgeries in hospitals and remote
applications in business. The automations has also expanded in the terms of safety and
convenient features of product.
Thus, this all business tools are effective in the success of organisation. This helps to produce
the data at rapid rate and to deliver the information from people to people. This network helps
the company to connect withy servants and employees quickly. Additionally, the main advantage
it is high speed, compatibility and reliability( Tayyaba, Khattak, Almogren, and et.al, 2020).

CONCLUSION
As per the report, it is concluded that the 5G network is used in all over the world. This is
consumed by all people as now of the current situation the internet is required in every business
work, for students in schools and universities at home also. The mobile phones are also a source
of media and entertainment so the internet is required for streaming gamine and many more. This
report concludes the importance of 5G network, and how this is developed along with its detail
description and the usage. Additionally, the software and technologies used in this 5G network,
which type of business and organisation uses this and how this is effective is also discussed in
this report.

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