Orange will broadcast live video in virtual reality during the mobile world congress
A few days before a new edition of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona begins one more year, the different manufacturers are beginning to provide information on what they will be announcing there. Orange has been the last to give clues about what it plans to show at the mobility fair. The orange operator has announced that it will teach a symmetric fiber optic connection with a speed of 1 Gbps thanks to the XGPON standard. Orange will also broadcast virtual reality content or a 4G + connection at 500 Mbps.
This year can mean a before and after in our country with regard to the broadband sector. Orange has just announced that it plans to carry out a series of demonstrations at the Mobile World Congress so that we can see the advances in the matter and what will hit the market in the coming months. The demonstrations will begin to take place from February 23 at around four in the afternoon at the stand that the company has prepared for the occasion.
The most important thing to talk about, without a doubt, is the demonstration that Orange will make of a fiber optic connection, which, for the first time in our country, will run at a speed of 1 Gbps. The best thing is that it will be a symmetric connection, which means that we will have the same download speed as upload speed. The operator will use its commercial network and achieve this high speed thanks to XGPON technology (also known as 10G PON). This standard is the successor to the current one with which fiber works to the home.
To carry out this demonstration, Orange will install the corresponding equipment at the stand that will be set up during the Mobile World Congress. The infrastructure will be integrated into the company's service network, just like any other node on the network. This means that testing will involve a network pilot in production, rather than a pilot on an isolated mock-up.
In addition to the fiber optic connection, Orange will also demonstrate the technology that allows browsing at more than 500 Mbps on a 4G + network. The company already carried out a test a few days ago at the Orange Labs facilities in Barcelona, one of the R & D & I centers that the operator has throughout the world. For the tests, networks were chosen on bands with frequencies of 2,600 MHz, 1,800 MHz and 800 MHz, supported by equipment that has Ericsson technology. In addition, to achieve this speed, 256QAM modulation was used, which managed to bring the download speed to 570Mbps.
Finally, Orange is also expected to teach us an experience that is pioneering in our country, the broadcasting of television content in 360-degree or virtual reality format. This broadcast will be supported by the operator's 4G + network. For the moment, Orange has designed a content viewer with the aim of enhancing the user experience with virtual reality.
