Japan being Japan teases 8K video streaming over a 5G network

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While writing up a bunch of Computex 2016 coverage, I noticed a report over at Tech in Asia about 8K video being streamed over a 5G network. Now remember that the 8K resolution is a retina-busting 7680x4320... yeah, and it's being streamed over a damn 5G network, which doesn't really exist right now.



Japanese telco Docomo has said that it has started testing live streaming 8K video over a 5G network, without any problems at all. Docomo added that it's the first time that 8K video has ever been live streamed over a 5G network, which is quite the achievement. Docomo teamed with Nokia on the 8K streaming over the 5G network, with the company saying a statement: "In the trial, 8K video of 48 Gbps - a bit rate four times greater than 4K video and 32 times [greater] than full HD - was compressed [...] and successfully transmitted without delay". 5G will usher in up to 10Gbps, but it all depends on countless factors between the telecommunications industry, governments, and the smartphone manufacturers. 5G could be here by 2020, completely bypassing the 40-50Mbps speeds that we get from 4G. Glenn Booth is the GM of Nokia's 5G division, who said: "This world's first demonstration is a clear indication of our progressive leadership in 5G".

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Verizon's CEO says that the sky is the limit for using 5G to customers' homes, as long as it has access to fiber.
Speaking last week at the J.P. Morgan Global, Technology & Media Conference, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) CEO Lowell McAdam said that the operator sees 5G as a potential cable/DSL replacement for delivering high-speed data to the home. The operator, he says, has now tested its initial 28GHz set-up at 1.8 Gbit/s in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. (See Verizon Hits 1-Gig+ in 5G Trials, Eyes Early Applications.)
Verizon plans a fixed wireless pilot in 2017 but McAdam envisages a broader deployment in the US over time. "I don't know why there would be any limitation on where we would take it," McAdam says. (See Verizon Will Pilot 5G Fixed Wireless in 2017.)
Essentially, what the operator needs is enough fiber close enough to the 5G radios to make it viable, McAdam noted. "Close is to be defined."

That's why we bought XO Communications," he added. "Because they have 45 of the top 50 markets they have metro fiber rings that gives you the ability to be out into those markets and then you just run your extensions off of them." (See Verizon Bags XO for $1.8B.)
Of course, if you're a regular reader you'll know that Verizon has been hot on the idea of 5G for fast fixed wireless for a while. (See 5G: Verizon's New Home Invasion?)
5G as a mobile standard is probably more of a 2020 proposition, McAdam noted.
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http://www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g/verizon-could-take-fixed-5g-nationwide/d/d-id/723736

It look like a few more years before we see that.

http://www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g/verizon-hits-1-gig-in-5g-trials-eyes-early-applications/d/d-id/722810
Verizon will have a fixed wireless 5G pilot up and running in 2017, CFO Fran Shammo told investment analysts today. That statement came in a first-quarter earnings call that reinforced the network operator's emphasis on building a fiber and wireless infrastructure, primarily to deliver mobile video efficiently. The 5G news seems to put Verizon, which previously was discussing commercial deployment next year, more in line with what others including AT&T are discussing.
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) is already in 5G tests with multiple vendors, showing the ability to deliver 4K video over mobile networks, and remains "committed to being the first company to roll out 5G," Shammo said. But the trial in 2017 "is not really about mobile, it's all about fixed wireless," he said, seeming to indicate a residential broadband test or something similar.


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Technically speaking, one'd need about 80 Mbps to do 8K in H265. I have 80 and I can't even stream YouTube in 4K because of throttling (thanks, FCC). 5G was tested at ~ 3.8 Gbps by Verizon, making it easily capable of 8K (which would look great on someone 5" smartphone). I posted in another thread that GFast is promising to deliver 1.5 Gbps over the traditional copper telephone wires. It's currently limited to 750 Mbps, which is still more than sufficient for 8K. Comcast is also introducing their 1 Gbps cable line.

There are no 8K TV's or monitors around but Pixel per Inch density on most latest smartphones already exceeds that.

And, outside of streaming, there is a new optical disc drive from Sony/Panasonic that can store over 3T of data. 8K movies in H265 will likely take only about a tenth of that.
 
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