5G Predictions for 2022

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5G will become an essential utility and assumed "natural resource" of infrastructure.

www.eetasia.com, Jan. 12, 2022 – 

What trends will drive the industry? Will the supply chain issue ease up soon? How will the electronics/semiconductor manufacturing landscape look like? In this month's In Focus, find out what manufacturers expect to happen in the industry, and what they hope for, or wish for, in the coming year.

5G and the World: Control of the 5G Digital Silk Road

5G will become an essential utility and assumed "natural resource" of infrastructure. Supplying the digital "pipeline" and harnessing data currency will become a focal point of national security and privacy concerns. This will compel new players and new entrants to supply 5G infrastructure. Hyperscale cloud providers will expand their cloud services to include 5G connectivity.

New OEMs/ODMs will launch 5G small cells for private enterprise environments. The race for 5G will in effect be a race for internet access and digital intelligence. Between system providers and network providers, 5G will stimulate discussions about wireless governance, security, and policies.

China (specifically Huawei) will remain an influential supplier of world's 5G infrastructure. Many countries looking to leapfrog into 5G deployments but desiring vendor trust and openness will explore Open-RAN solutions as a healthy counterbalance to proprietary, closed solutions, such as that of Huawei.

5G Expands into Non-Telco Environments

Where 2G/3G/4G offered evolutionary enhancements to cellular communications, 5G offers new capabilities and properties that will ignite imaginative possibilities for new end markets that extend beyond traditional telco environments. Governments and national defense companies will look to develop and deploy fully custom, private 5G networks. Cable and internet providers will launch fixed wireless small cells, where the need for cooper cable wires is obsoleted in favor of 5G wireless connectivity. Smart factories, warehouses, and sea ports will capitalize on robotic automation with private 5G networks enabled by Artificial Intelligence. Enterprises will look to collapse WiFi and private 5G networks into one unified network where mission critical and non-mission critical devices can be simultaneously supported.

The tsunami of new connected devices will dwarf smartphones and test the pluralities of 5G. Massive customization at scale will be necessary to support the varying performance, power, and price points.

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