Question 1:
Imagine that you work for a small ICT consultancy company based in the UK. Your company sends out an annual mailing to its clients and potential clients, and this mailing always includes a short report. This report is about a different technology each year. The purpose of these reports is to help the recipients keep abreast of some new development in ICT. The reports are always well researched and balanced; there is no marketing ‘hype’ in them. This year your company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has decided that the short report will be entitled ‘5G and its current state of play in the UK’. You have been asked to write it.
Your brief is that the report must be divided into five sections with the following titles, which define the expected content. The first section is to function as an introduction.
What is 5G?
Differences between 5G and 4G
Key enabling technologies for 5G
An update on 5G in the UK
In conclusion
The mailing will go to senior managers in a wide range of businesses in the UK. Some of these managers will have a technological background, and the section entitled ‘Key enabling technologies for 5G’ is intended for them. This section should include an explanation of two of the following technologies: millimetre wave (mmWave) communications; massive MIMO; beamforming; small cells; scalable OFDM numerology. Other recipients of the report are expected to skip over this section so the other
sections should focus on providing a broader overview rather than detailed technical descriptions.
Your CEO has asked you to write about this report. As well as drawing on appropriate material from Block 1, you should carry out some research online to ensure that your report is up to date. Most of what you need is in the block materials, so you should not need to spend too long on this. Some of the technologies in the section ‘Key enabling technologies for 5G’ are introduced in the module materials, and there may be more information in the reading(s) provided in Activity 8.12, but you will also need to do some additional research around their use in 5G.
Your research should also cover what has been happening (particularly in the UK) over the past year or so to enable you to provide an up to date and accurate section ‘An update on 5G in the UK’
