Samsung touches 5G speeds of 8.5Gbps in lab tests

Samsung Electronics said that it has achieved fastest 5G speeds in a lab demonstration that combined 800MHz of mmWave spectrum with MU-MIMO (Multi-User, Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output) technology, running on the Samsung 5G mmWave Access Unit.

Using two test mobile devices, the demo achieved approximately 4.3Gbps speeds on each, reaching a peak speed of 8.5Gbps across both devices. In order to achieve the speed, two key technologies were used: carrier aggregation and MU-MIMO.

“This demonstration highlights the key difference of 5G – its use of mmWave spectrum. The wide bandwidth from mmWave spectrum enables mobile operators to provide multi-gigabit speeds that lower band spectrums are unable to match,” said Samsung.