AI + IoT = 1000X More Dense Networking Environments: How Intel, NSF Are Planning For Tomorrow
Intel and the National Science Foundation say we’ll need help from artificial intelligence. And mesh networks. Including, potentially, even SpaceX Starlink satellites in low earth orbit.
“Traditional 4G networks that your current mobile devices rely on typically can support a region that has about 300 to 2,000 devices in their coverage area,” Thyaga Nandagopal, a deputy division director at the National Science Foundation, told me recently on the TechFirst podcast . “We are thinking about device densities [with] tens of thousands in a small region … [going] all the way up to millions of devices in a coverage area of a single cell site in a wireless network.”