Questioning is temporary: the past and future of 5G

Looking back at the development of 5G, it is easy to see that as 5G standards continue to evolve, many application pain points will hopefully be solved. Smartphones are just one of many 5G applications, and it is expected that in the future, 5G vendors will submit more comprehensive solutions.

In an interview with International Electronics Business, Jiang Huaigang, Director of Application Engineering, Communication and Server Market, ON Semiconductor China, said, "Mobile phones are just one terminal application among many 5G applications. In fact, compared with consumer cell phone applications, industrial applications such as telemedicine surgery/intelligent factories/large scale event activities/large scale disaster relief and rescue, and especially emerging industries, which need the support of 5G technology more for their flourishing development."

At this stage, 5G vertical industry use cases for non-individual users are not uncommon. For example, for power grids, 4G bandwidth and latency are difficult to economically meet the needs of video monitoring, robotic patrol, differential protection, and triple remote control (telemetry, telematics, and remote control), and 5G is very suitable for such scenarios with independent slicing.

A technology player in the 5G vertical industry, who did not want to be named, told International eBusiness that 5G's adaptability to some scenarios has reached an unparalleled level, and it is not a gimmick created by market players. He cited 5G dedicated lines as an example, saying that although 5G dedicated lines do not have many customers now, it has a huge future. For example, a large number of decentralized branches of banks have to communicate with the head office, and the previous solution is complicated and costly, while the 5G dedicated line is enough to solve the problem by slicing all the way.