LG Elec sets new milestone in 6G test with successful 100m data exchange

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LG Electronics Thursday announced its successful demonstration of the transmission and reception of wireless 6G terahertz (THz) data over a distance of more than 100 meters in an outdoor setting.

The milestone was achieved in collaboration with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany, with the data traveling between Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute and Berlin Institute of Technology buildings, the Korean electronics giant said in a press release.

The THz wireless transmission/reception technology, which enables data transmission at a rate of up to 1 terabit per second in a frequency band between 100 gigahertz and 10 terahertz, is a key technology to meet the needs of 6G mobile communications.

In theory, the speed of 6G at a transmission speed of 1 Tbps is 50 times faster than that of 5G at a max transmission speed of 20 Gbps. The commercialization of 6G could be as early as 2029 after discussions on the 6G standard in 2025.

[Graphics by Song Ji-yoon]

LG Electronics has accelerated efforts to secure source technologies for wireless 6G. In 2019, the company joined hands with Korea Institute for Advanced Study to launch LG-KAIST 6G Research Center. Earlier this year, LG and KAIST agreed to expand cooperation with Keysight Technologies, a global manufacturer of wireless telecom testing and measuring equipment.

In June, Samsung Electronics succeeded in transmitting and receiving wireless data in the 6G THz band. Samsung Electronics and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) demonstrated indoor data transmission over 15 meters in the 140 GHz band.

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