Samsung and Cisco in Partnership

Samsung Electronics and Cisco announced a cooperation. They have successfully completed a friendly-user trial and series of 5G demonstrations with Orange in Floresti, Cluj, Romania.

Since the announcement in February by the three companies of the first multi-vendor 5G fixed wireless trial in Europe (Link), the friendly-user trial has been running for a month and a half across multiple homes in Floresti, Cluj district, Romania.The trial makes use of Samsung's 5G solutions including the virtualized RAN, one of the smallest 5G access units and multiple indoor and outdoor 5G routers (CPE), as well as Cisco's Meraki Z3 WiFi Router and Ultra Gateway Platform, which delivers a 5G virtual packet core on top of Cisco NFV

Infrastructure that brings enhanced throughput and flexibility.

The results of this research by Chinese scientists are published online in Nature in Photonics. This is the first single-photon-based quantum simulator in history that surpasses the early classic computers, laying a solid foundation for the ultimate goal of quantum computing beyond classical computing power.

In the quantum computer developed by the team, the superconducting system also has a major breakthrough. In 2015, Google, NASA and the University of California, Santa Barbara announced the implementation of high-precision manipulation of nine superconducting qubits. But this record was broken by the Chinese team of scientists this year. Zhu Xiaobo, Wang Haohua, Lu Chaoyang and Pan Jianwei cooperated independently to develop a 10-bit superconducting quantum line sample. Through high-precision pulse control and global entanglement operation, the multi-body pure entanglement of the world's largest number of superconducting qubits was successfully realized.

By leveraging the wide bandwidth available at 26 GHzand advanced antenna technologies such as massive MIMO and beamforming, the companies were able to achieve coverage beyond 1 km at 1 Gbps speed for a single user in real live conditions. Measurements in these conditions also show aggregated cell downlink throughputs of 3 Gbps with few users, although the system capacity is significantly higher.

It is understood that the Pan Jianwei team is working on the design, preparation and testing of 20 superconducting qubit samples, and plans to release a quantum cloud computing platform by the end of this year.