January 2018 - SYMON MUTHEMBA

5G and the War for Supremacy: The 4 Key Technologies Involved

January 31, 2018January 31, 2018 symonmkCommunication, Conferences and Seminars, Engineering, Research

Fifty years from now, when you’re aged and wrinkled (assuming we won’t have discovered the cure for aging) you’ll be sure to tell your grand-kids of the war for the rise of the 5G cellular network from 2016 – 2020. You’ll explain to them how the differences in spectrum efficiency, power efficiency and performance in connectivity were used to decide the ultimate victor. The challengers being MU-MIMO, D2D, NOMA and mmWave technologies. How the battles were fought, not on the ground or sea, but through the electromagnetic spectrum led by top research scientists all over the globe. You’ll remember to tell them that the puppet-masters were the telcos giants while us, the wee subscribers, could only hope for the best outcome. Better yet, direct them here for a simplified description of the technologies currently involved in the 5G revolution.

Quick Guide To Radio Broadcast Transmission

January 18, 2018January 18, 2018 symonmkBroadcast, Communication, Engineering, Work

Your studio is already set up and it’s now time to go LIVE! Right? Well, there is the issue of how to get that audio to your audience. In Kenya, FM radio is the most common, and profitable, form of broadcast. This is why most of the infrastructure to support it has been set up across the country. Installation might be a grueling task for a small team (such as ours about a month ago), but the outcome becomes far more rewarding than I expected. In this post I go over the technologies that make radio broadcast transmission possible.