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Intel has been testing its 5G wireless gear internally and with a few partners this year, but it’s about to take on a new role in an Austin office. Hooking up network equipment from Ericsson and AT&T, Intel will act as a corporate guinea pig for a trial using the upcoming, unfinished wireless standard.

The goal is to test early 5G equipment under real world conditions. Using the 15 GHz and 28 GHz bands, the high frequencies known as millimeter wave, the signals in the test can transmit a large volume of information but don’t travel as far or penetrate obstructions as easily as lower frequencies.

Intel and its partners will be testing how well the signals pass through trees and glass windows to bring the 5G signal inside a building. Once in the building, using standard Wi-Fi, Intel workers will connect to 4K video streams, exchange large files, operate over virtual private networking, and generally try to stress the equipment.

“We’re trying to force a little bit of congestion,” says Rob Topol, general manager for Intel’s 5G business



http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/05/intel-to-act-as-corporate-guinea-pig-for-its-5g-wireless-tests-in-bid-to-catch-qualcomm/