The first IET Surrey network event of 2014 on the development of 5G mobility turned out a huge success for the capacity audience who braved a wet night to visit the University of Surrey on January 15.
Feedback to the lecture by Prof Rahim Tafozolli, Director of the Centre for Communications Systems Research and the 5G Innovation centre at the University of Surrey received high praise for content and presentation.
Prof Tafozolli explained the story behind the project, and underlined the importance of innovation in finding ways of coping with the rising levels of mobile communications.
The University of Surrey will play a major role in the development of the 5G network of the future. Together with a consortium of major industry players it will build the world's first research centre on campus dedicated to mobile technology.
"It was a very informative presentation on a topic of high interest to the IT and Telecoms industry. The choice of speaker was excellent, he is clearly one of the leaders in his field and yet presented the issues is a very clear and easy to understand manner." RHN
"This was a very interesting talk about the University of Surrey's plans to develop 5G technology. It was good to see that the focus is on improving the user's experience instead of just increasing the peak data rate." MTG
"I felt privileged to be experiencing another development in its early stages of development that has the potential of hitting the world by storm. My first encounter with data communications transmissions was in the1970s when it was a struggle to achieve 2400 Bauds over a copper equalised transmission line for one protocol. The 5G lecture illustrated how the design team are taking full advantage of the developments of Fibre Optic transmission technology, with many protocols within fixed bandwidth." RB
As always these events are excellent in all respects: subject, speaker, attendance, and venue. One aspect of this subject was the exclusion at this time of data security. These advance networks are being planned to replace existing comms networks and will carry extensive strategic data which could cripple the country if security is inadequate. Using partners such as Huawei and Samsung among others places our future data at risk." GN
This blog is open to comment if anyone wishes to add their thoughts or further questions for Prof. Tafozolli.