Signal-integrity challenges are becoming more pressing across all frequencies, and materials technologies are evolving in response.

As the IoT gathers pace, keeping people – and, increasingly, things – connected involves shifting huge quantities of data. Handling the volume and speed imposes immense engineering challenges in all the various elements: handsets, IoT gateways, telco core networks. Even today’s cars are part of this high-performance information infrastructure, as manufacturers want to position value-added services like infotainment and e-call emergency care. And as the data get aggregated at various points into the network core, economics means they’re viewed as a commodity. The more that can be moved in a given time, the lower the cost per bit.

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