Improving Broadband Technology Supports Healthcare IoT

Improved broadband technology can help support healthcare IoT growth as more organizations are utilizing connected devices to help improve patient care. A recent update in broadband technology could potentially affect the healthcare industry in its IoT usage. Verizon, Ericsson, and Qualcomm Technologies announced that they surpassed the broadband Gigabit speed barrier on 4G LTE with commercial silicon and network infrastructure. The companies reached a speed of 1.07Gbps download speeds using a Qualcomm Snapdragon X20 LTE modem during an Ericsson lab trial using Ericsson’s Radio System and LTE software. The speed was also achieved using three 20MHz carriers of Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) spectrum, which used separate transmit and receive frequencies.