Alliance for 5G

VDE and the mobile communications industry

Lukas Dehling, 08.09.2016, 14:50

Alliance for 5G

The VDE is certain that the 5G communication standard will change the world. In order to drive standardization forward, it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the international mobile communications consortium NGMN Alliance.

VDE CEO Ansgar Hinz (left) and NGMN CEO Dr. Peter Meissner (right) at the agreement on the future 5G cooperation.

With this cooperation, the NGNM (Next Generation Mobile Network) and the VDE want to bundle their synergies for 5G. The NGMN consortium represents the global players in the mobile communications and ICT industry from Asia, Europe and North America in defining the requirements of the next generation of mobile communications. The VDE has scientific 5G experts from Germany on board with its Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE (VDE|ITG). With its standardization experts within VDE|DKE (German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies), the association aims to drive 5G standardization forward.

The first concrete collaboration with NGMN is to take place via the newly created Standardization Council Industry 4.0 (SC I 4.0) of the Industry 4.0 platform. "Together, we can lead the international future project 5G and applications such as Industry 4.0 to success more quickly, especially with regard to topics such as standardization, interfaces and interoperability," said VDE Chairman Ansgar Hinz at the signing of the memorandum. NGMN CEO Dr. Peter Meissne added: "A central task of NGMN is to drive forward the global development of a uniform 5G standard that enables numerous new services and applications. The cooperation between VDE and NGMN will make a decisive contribution to this."

As the first forward-looking mobile broadband network that can control and regulate itself, 5G is intended to enable the real-time networking of billions of end devices - and thus create the basis for the Internet of Things and a wide range of applications such as Industry 4.0 and autonomous driving.

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