With more than 50 billion devices expected online by 2025, KAUST's partnership with Ericsson is advancing critical telecommunications technologies like free-space optics and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, paving the way for revolutionary improvements in 5G and emerging 6G networks.
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More than 50 billion devices will be online by 2025. These include those that control electric grids for cities to the ones in your hand for scrolling social media. This number and the amount of data they transmit were impossible even ten years ago. The difference between then and now is telecommunications technologies. 5G (fifth generation telecommunications) and soon 6G are making gigabytes of data available at the press of a button just about anywhere in the world.
While telecommunications companies can invest in their own research and development to innovate 5G and 6G technologies, a more reliable model has them partner with universities. For Ericsson, the multinational telecommunications company based in Sweden, KAUST is that university.
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Mohamed-Slim Alouini
- Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
