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Hans Vestberg, executive vice president and president of Global Networks and chief technology officer for Verizon, provides an easy-to-understand explanation of 5G.

If you think of the evolution of our mobile network, 1G was Voice, 2G – Texting, 3G – Data & Apps, 4G – Mobile Video.

These were incremental advancements. 5G is transformational. We talk about 5G as the fourth industrial revolution.

5G offers a huge leap forward in latency and bandwidth. Its low latency means super-fast speeds and reaction times. Its high bandwidth means massive amounts of data.

It will make all sorts of things possible like remote robotic surgery, autonomous cars, super connected cities, smart manufacturing, cool AR and VR experiences, stuff people haven’t even dreamt up yet.

Now it’s important to know, 5G is not going to replace 4G. In fact, we are constantly coming up with new ways to make our 4G LTE network better and we won’t stop doing that.

When it comes to 5G, you’ll continue seeing noise about what everybody else is doing but you’ll see their idea of 5G is different than ours.They talk about much more improvements, theirs is incremental. What we are building is transformational.

Here at Verizon we not only have the best network for today, but also for tomorrow.

It’s why we always say, "we don’t wait for the future, we build it."

Verizon's 5G incubator at Alley in New York City is bringing universities and startups together to test their 5G concepts on Verizon's pre-commercial 5G network

Communications is at the heart of many of the changes
we’ve seen in the last decade or two. The evolution of that communication’s fabric is front and center to how the future will unfold. Many of the fundamental technologies that are behind this require 5G and its bandwidth.

My students are really excited about the collaboration with Verizon and the fact that there’s a 5G node right here at the Alley. That delay that’s less than 1/100th of a second, that gives you the real responsiveness that allows people to communicate visually. These students are literally figuring out how people will interact with each other in the coming decade. Collaboration is really at the heart of what we do at Arvizio. Mixed reality is an important new technology that allows you to bring in the real word and then overlay the real world with holographic images. The Arvizio platform in conjunction with Verizon’s 5G technology.

We’re now able to do things that were just not possible. The ability to work as a team, independently of distance, is an essential ingredient.

Edge computing is essentially cloud computing. We enable you to use any app or game on any device. You don’t buy a game console, you don’t buy a PC, you just essentially stream it. Two things are important for what we do: you need to have incredibly high bandwidth and low latency. Verizon has helped us accelerate both of those things dramatically since we started working with them.

My lab is very interested in how augmented reality and virtual reality can help people work together. The problem that we’re interested in this case is making it possible for two people who are in different places to be able to collaborate in a very fine grain, doing tasks in which together they are controlling the same physical stuff and they’re connected by 5G. The response that a person can have can be much more rapid. In general, it’s really important for people to connect together because we’re human beings, we’re social animals. We like to do things with other people.

I think human life is about solving problems. People- they either use the tools they have or they develop new tools and right now, the best innovators are the ones who are doing both at the same time. 5G is the differential in being able to do things like that.

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