UK Team Teases 5G in a Light Bulb

Researchers at Brunel University London have secured funding to develop a proof-of-concept wireless network that aims to fuse LiFi with mmWave technology. The project builds on the emerging LiFi (aka visible light communications or VLC) technological standard, which uses visible light to transmit data, and mmWave (millimeter wave) tech, which has figured largely in trials of what could form part of the 5G standard. Organizers aim to demonstrate 10Gbps connections in homes and buildings with a delay of a millisecond.