Current infrastructure can't support the Metaverse, says Huawei report

Chinese telecom elephantine Huawei doesn’t judge existent telecom infrastructure is capable to header with the needs of the Metaverse, adding that 5G and 6G networks conscionable might.

The comments came from Huawei’s Middle East region's Chief Expert connected Business & Strategy Consulting, Abhinav Purohit, who published a three-part blog bid connected Dec. 20 focused connected the imaginable of the Metaverse assemblage and wherever telecom companies volition acceptable into the picture.

Describing what the Metaverse is, oregon what its actualization volition look like, Purohit outlined that a “metaverse is simply a corporate virtual shared space” which volition “allow geographically distant participants to bask realistic, spatially-aware experiences that seamlessly blend virtual contented successful a user’s carnal world.”

He besides added that the conception of an unfastened Metaverse is intimately tied to the Web3 movement arsenic inbuilt economies volition beryllium enabled by “digital currencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).”

To recognize specified a vision, download speeds, streaming quality, mobile devices and Metaverse hardware — among different things — volition apt request accelerated improvements to alteration a smoothly operated virtual sphere, helium said.

Purohit said delivering a afloat polished and immersive experience, requires a big of tech advancements to instrumentality place, commenting:

“Delivering specified an acquisition volition necessitate innovations successful fields similar hybrid section and distant real-time rendering, video compression, borderline computing, and cross-layer visibility.”

He besides believes determination volition request to beryllium changes to cellular standards, web optimizations and improved latency betwixt devices and mobile networks.

Purohit said that latency (responsiveness of a network), symmetric bandwidth (the velocity successful which information transfers) and prime of acquisition (network throughput) are the cardinal issues presently holding backmost metaverse networks.

He yet asserts that ample standard adoption of “5G networks volition dramatically amended bandwidth portion reducing web contention and latency, portion 6G volition summation speeds by yet different bid of magnitude.”

To enactment 5G web speeds successful to discourse compared to a fixed wireless broadband scenario, 5G tin reportedly deed speeds of 1,000 Megabytes per 2nd (MBps). These speeds marque it overmuch faster that the nationalist mean net speeds successful the U.S. of 119.03 MBps arsenic per High Speed Internet data.

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Looking extracurricular of the Metaverse, determination does look to beryllium a important propulsion to get 5G afloat operational crossed the globe, with data from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) indicating 501 operators successful 153 countries and territories investing successful 5G arsenic of August 2022.

Out of those 501 operators, GSA’s information besides shows that 222 of them person already launched 5G mobile services successful 89 countries and territories. Given that 5G isn’t afloat rolled retired and adopted arsenic the mobile modular crossed the globe however, it remains to beryllium seen if a afloat standard Metaverse tin beryllium supported by it.