Plenary Speaker 1: Wireless spectrum challenges & opportunities: Maximizing assets for growth

In an industry needing to support phenomenal growth, spectrum is key. Networks and devices must support multiple technologies and frequency bands without sacrificing performance. The industry has to come together to provide innovative and cost-effective RFIC design that utilizes all available resources. Smarter utilization of industry assets is essential, for example building small cell solutions (HetNets) that include tighter integration and interworking between cellular and WiFi. Since unlicensed spectrum is a great augment to carriers´ licensed spectrum assets, it opens a myriad of opportunities for increasing network capacity. Better integration between WiFi and cellular would allow customers greater capacity and flexibility with data transmissions based on cost or desired quality level and network load. Therefore, RFIC innovation is necessary for future wireless systems.