Re:The Disappointment of 5G
by kotatsuyaki on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:34AM
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Not for surgery per se (which is too high of a risk), but in my country people did manage to find a similar, reasonable use case. They equipped ambulances with high-res cameras and cellular network for senior medical technicians in hospitals to give advices to medical technicians on the ambulance in real-time, which seems like a nice addition.
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Very nice
ps: reminds me that emergency team came with a broken 2G portable EKG that couldn't transmit data to the cardiologist when my mother had a spasm.. driver told me that the device was around 10000 euros, it was quite shocking.
4G can comfortably stream 1080p video with low latency. What does 5G being to this scenario?
Re:The Disappointment of 5G
by kotatsuyaki on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:07AM
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Nothing really special for 5G. The governmental bodies (and the tech firms involved) use the term "5G" just to gain visibility.
I did see some of those ambulances running multiple streams from different perspectives, though. Is the bandwidth of 4G networks capable of doing that?
Wider bands, lower latency, less congestion, the promise of switching off legacy in the future (with SA)
Re:The Disappointment of 5G
by nerfbatplz on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:25PM
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Network slicing allows critical bandwidth usage to be prioritized absolutely. Can’t do that with LTE.
Not to mention the sheer density of connections that can be serviced by a 5G radio over an LTE radio.