Immersive internet requires sub-millisecond latency

The German DE-CIX launched Finland's third internet interconnection point in late May. With the new connections Finnish companies users will have even faster connections. CEO Ivo Ivanov already painted a future where the virtual world works as fast as the real one. There are quite a few requirements for this network, especially in terms of latency.

At the end of May, DE-CIX launched Finland's third Internet access point with Nokia routers. With improved connections, Finland is closer to the other Nordic countries and Europe again. But what does it mean in terms of real-time, or immersive internet?

we allow, for example, a delay of milliseconds for an AR/VR experience.

The speed of light is 300 thousand kilometers per second, but Ivanov reminded that in one millisecond, under optimal conditions, the signal travels a maximum distance of 80 kilometers. So this is the so-called RTT time, i.e. the time it takes for a data packet to travel from the device to the destination and back. In practice, this means that the data has to be much closer for the experience to be pleasant. Immersive, if you will.

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There are currently around 11.5 million Sigfox devices on the market. In Finland, the 0G network is operated by Connected Finland. There are 230 thousand devices in the network. It is telling that all these devices together consume less power than a single 5G base station.

According to Henri Bong, sending one Sigfox message consumes 10-20 milliwatts of power. Henri Bong himself believes that energy efficiency can be improved even more.- I believe we will reach 1.2 milliwatts per message.

Sigfox's energy efficiency is superior. Still, Bong sees that the services and overall solution are more important. Unabiz wants to go in a technology-agnostic direction. Visio has an IoT network where messages travel from nodes to the network regardless of which radio technology or network they travel on.

This requires a translation as devices in networks built with different technologies must be able to communicate with each other. UnaBiz's solution is a light data management software layer called UnaConnect. It has already shown its power translating LoRaWAN versa project