Verizon put 5G community slicing by its paces as a part of its assist of final weekend’s Components 1 Final Vegas Grand Prix racing occasion. The provider mentioned that the expertise “confirmed distinctive efficiency for streaming content material in a excessive data-usage surroundings.”
Verizon mentioned that over the course of the multi-day occasion, greater than 100,000 attendees used its community for uploads, consuming 79.3 TB of knowledge. In the meantime, Verizon engineers created a community slice that enabled a Verizon beta utility known as Cellular Creator Studio, which enabled particular high-profile content material creators to livestream high-definition video about race-related occasions and festivities and keep a high-quality connection. Race automotive driver Lando Norris used a Verizon 5G system to provide a tour of the McLaren storage, and McClaren driver and social media influencer Tanner Faust recorded a demo video (watch beneath) of himself doing stay HD video streaming whereas explaining community slicing, as he walked the streets of Las Vegas.
“All through this demo, regardless of record-breaking information utilization on the Verizon community, the community slice offered the low-latency, high-throughput mobility service wanted for dependable, responsive stay streaming of the occasion,” Verizon mentioned in a launch.
Phillip French,VP of engineering and operations at Verizon, mentioned that the corporate’s 5G community is “constructed particularly to handle crowded occasions, offering reliability and large capability so prospects can seize, share and join all through the expertise.” Verizon mentioned that its engineers have been engaged on upgrades and enhancements to the world the place the race was held over the previous couple of years, in preparation for the occasion.
Verizon famous that in Vegas, it’s leveraging each its C-Band holdings and high-performance millimeter wave spectrum. Verizon introduced in mid-August that it had turned up its full 160 megahertz of C-Band airwaves in Las Vegas, almost tripling its 5G spectrum capability within the metro space. Along with serving Verizon prospects throughout town and all through “key resorts”, the provider famous that C-Band was used all through the world the place the race occasions came about, together with all through the grandstand, alongside the observe and within the paddock space. Verizon additionally deployed a brand new, fully-equipped 4G/5G cell website on the Harry Reid airport.
Millimeter wave was in utilized in high-demand areas, which Verizon mentioned included the Las Vegas Strip, Fremont Road, the Bellagio grand stand and VIP areas, and on small cell towers that coated the principle entrance to the occasion. Extra, non permanent cell websites had been additionally used to bolster protection, capability and efficiency on the entrance, levels, grandstand and VIP areas, in addition to the Henderson govt airport, the provider added.
Verizon had beforehand introduced profitable testing of community slicing in June of this 12 months.