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IQE participates in 5G communications project
IQE participates in 5G communications project.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 0929T IQE PLC 18 March 2019 \n\nIQE partners in key wireless communications project for 5G infrastructure\nCardiff, UK. 18 March 2019: IQE plc (AIM: IQE, \"IQE\" or the \"Group\"), the leading global supplier of advanced wafer products and material solutions to the semiconductor industry announced its participation in a new £850,000 research project that aims to put the UK at the forefront of the next generation of millimetre wave wireless communications technology for 5G infrastructure.\n \nThis project addresses the important challenge of ubiquitous wireless connectivity for 5G, a key underpinning technology for the modern digital economy and is a collaboration between Lancaster University and Glasgow University along with major industrial partners including BT, Nokia Bell Labs, IQE, Filtronic, Optocap and Teledyne e2v, and has in the advisory board Intel. The project aims to provide 'fibre-in-air' communication links with unprecedented data rates and transmission distance by exploiting a thus-far unused portion of the wireless communications spectrum, called D-band.\n \nD-Band, which is the portion of spectrum between 151-174.8 GHz, is particularly relevant for 5G because, being very wide, it enables the wireless transmission of high data rates - of around 45Gb/s. \n \nThe breakthrough goal of DLINK is to enable data transmission over distances of one kilometre, by a novel transmitter with excellent ability to withstand the high attenuation from rain and other atmospheric conditions that can be problematic at that portion of the spectrum.\n \nThere is an urgent need for new wireless communications technologies capable of delivering data at high speeds and low cost and without needing installations of fibre or large unsightly equipment to be fitted on the tops of many of the buildings in our cities.\n \nThis is because wireless data demands are continuing to gather pace with widespread proliferation of Internet connected devices such as smartphones, tablet computers and laptops. The things people choose to do with their devices is also increasingly demanding - around 74 per cent of mobile data traffic is expected to come from video streaming within the next five years. \n \nAll of these connected devices are placing huge strains on the existing wireless communica...