A1 Telekom recently showcased 8K video streaming via the A1 5G network for the first time ever in Austria, demonstrating future of entertainment. Together with its technology partners Nokia and Samsung, A1 presents one of the many fields of application of the new 5G mobile technology.
Streaming of high-resolution 8K content will increasingly pose technical challenges for the current mobile networks: both the required transmission speed as well as the transmission volume will increase immensely. A Hollywood blockbuster in 8K quality will reach over 100GB of data volume the network has to deal with. In particular, the rapid development of such bandwidth-intensive applications and the trend towards real-time applications makes the rapid and close expansion of 5G essential.
Thomas Arnoldner, CEO, A1 Telekom Austria Group
In addition to industrial applications, the Internet of Things and real-time communication for autonomous vehicles or drones, even higher bandwidths and faster response times will open up new applications for private customers, such as virtual reality or cloud gaming.
Marcos Grausam, CEO, A1
8K video streaming will be among the applications that require maximum bandwidth. High-definition videos are extremely hungry for data and would bring the existing networks to their limits of performance. At this premiere we show what will be possible in the A1 5Giganet.
