{"id":59163,"date":"2020-08-20T01:55:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T17:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mediatek-inmarsat-demonstrate-5g-satellite-iot-data-connection\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T01:55:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T17:55:29","slug":"mediatek-inmarsat-demonstrate-5g-satellite-iot-data-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mediatek-inmarsat-demonstrate-5g-satellite-iot-data-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaTek, Inmarsat Demonstrate 5G Satellite IoT Data Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MediaTek<\/strong> reports it has conducted a successful trial of a 5G satellite Internet of Things (IoT) data connection. In a Wednesday release, MediaTek said it established a bi-directional link and transferred data from its satellite-enabled standard NB-IoT device to <strong>Inmarsat<\/strong>\u2018s Alphasat L-band satellite in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). <\/p>\n<p>The companies say this test was the first of its kind and could prove the feasibility of new global standards and market potential of a single device for connecting satellite and cellular networks.<\/p>\n<p>MediaTek, a fabless semiconductor company, and Inmarsat ran the test with a base station located at the Fucino Space Center in Italy and developed by Taiwan\u2019s Institute for Information Industry. The test device was located in Northern Italy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTesting MediaTek\u2019s standard NB-IoT chip over Inmarsat\u2019s established GEO satellite network has proven technology from mobile networks works effectively over GEO satellites with little modification and will provide a very cost effective path to ubiquitous and hybrid global IoT coverage,\u201d commented Jonathan Beavon, senior director of Inmarsat Product Group.<\/p>\n<p>The test results will be contributed to the <strong>3rd Generation Partnership Project<\/strong> (3GPP)\u2019s Rel-17 standardization work on Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) to establish 5G standards toward new use cases and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaTek reports it has conducted a successful trial of a 5G satellite Internet of Things (IoT) data connection. In a Wednesday release, MediaTek said it established a bi-directional link and transferred data from its satellite-enabled standard NB-IoT device to Inmarsat\u2018s Alphasat L-band satellite in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). The companies say this test was the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}