Verizon Is Powering a Fiber Optic Cable Factory With 5G
At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 in Los Angeles, chip designer NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) unveiled its plans to power 5G mobile networks with its new edge chips and artificial intelligence software. NVIDIA has a history of leveraging the power of its graphics processing units for new technology, and telecoms' work on new 5G standards is one area of particular promise.
As if to prove NVIDIA's point, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and tech manufacturer Corning (NYSE: GLW) announced a few days later that 5G has been installed in Corning's fiber optic cable factory in North Carolina. It's one of the world's largest facilities producing fiber optics hardware -- Corning's fiber optic cable also being a key ingredient in the deployment of Verizon's 5G -- so this is more than a trial run with an unproven concept. Verizon and Corning plan to showcase how 5G can power the factory of the 21st century.
Verizon and Corning plan to utilize 5G to power automation and quality assurance at the facility, capabilities that NVIDIA highlighted as new possibilities with 5G just days earlier. Because the new mobile network is up to 1,000 times faster and has a tenth of the latency (the time it takes for the network to respond to a user action) than the current 4G standard, it can be used to power new wireless technologies. According to the press release:
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