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further into the auto market with 4G and
5G products that enable cars to talk to
each other on the road and find their way
with multi-frequency global navigation
satellite systems as self-driven cars race
to reality.
New foldable 5G smartphones were
displayed behind ‘look but don’t touch’
glass displays. New LG smartphones
enabled attendees to control functions
through hand gestures without touching
the screen.
Jeff Ready, CEO of Scale Computing
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New Microsoft HoloLens were paired with
5G networks to do some exciting things with
holograms, AR/VR and AI. And visions were
shared about how ‘Smart Cities’ will soon
exist where everything is connected.
5G will revolutionise the edge
As diverse as these announcements were,
most rely on edge computing to ensure
delivery and analysis of critical data for 5G
devices and services to make decisions or
share insights.
The attraction of edge computing is that
it places data as close as possible to the
network or systems where insights are
processed. The quicker the data can be
collected from sensors and delivered to the
compute function, the faster cars can make
decisions about when and where to turn,
for example. Edge computing is basically an
onsite data centre that works best in a 5G
environment because it enables data to be
delivered almost instantaneously.
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