I have a purpose, why tennis is the greatest sport, and the coming of 5G

“Life moves pretty fast,” tremendous words of wisdom from a kid playing hooky.  My boys are in high school now and we’re looking at colleges.  My role is primarily their Shepard, sponsor, and coach.  I have learned by being a coach of Men’s tennis, that being a friend is secondary to that of being a coach or father.  You must establish and enforce boundaries.  You must provide an environment where all communication is welcome and safe to share.  I have psychology professionals who tell me kids are “who they are going to be” by age 4.  I always thought it was more like 8 but regardless – your role changes with teenagers.  I am not passing time, my purpose is to make my kids successful in the areas they apply themselves, to be confident, and happy.

I recently gave a speech on why tennis is the greatest sport.

1. You can be as good as you want to be. Justine Henin was 5’5 125# and the #1 player in the world.

2. It’s simple and orthodox. There are only 5 strokes and for all of them you stand sideways.

3. You can imitate others and be successful.

4. Tennis is a lifetime sport and good for networking. It’s easily shared with family, friends and there are numerous opportunities to play including holiday socials.

5. You can start early or late in life.  The average age of a USTA league player is 48.

6. It’s low injury and not dangerous.

7. It’s great exercise – 800 calories for a singles match.

8. Role models to die for – tennis has players you can respect like Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer.

9. It’s not expensive – unless you really like the outfits.  Balls are $2/can and rackets are $200. Watching the pros is cheap too vs. going to a football game.

10. This article https://www.inc.com/betsy-mikel/this-is-kind-of-exercise-you-should-do-to-live-a-longer-happier-life.html?cid=sf01001 supports my assumption.  Here’s how much longer people who played the following sports lived compared with those who were sedentary:

    • Tennis 9.7 years longer

    • Badminton: 6.2 years longer

    • Soccer: 4.7 years longer

    • Cycling: 3.7 years longer

    • Swimming: 3.4 years longer

    • Calisthenics: 3.1 years longer

    • Health club activities: 1.5 years longer

There is a major new disruption in technology that will affect everything we do. It’s called 5G, it’s going to be here in 2019, and it’s 100x faster than 4G.  That means it’s faster than wired connections.  Faster than your home FIOS or Comcast connection.  5G enables autonomous driving as cars can communicate with other cars, traffic lights, and other sources in real-time. Perhaps the biggest single lesson is that any supplier that is touched by the mobile Internet, the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud services and consumer electronics or automation needs to track and assess the coming impact of 5G. Few will be left unaffected.

The widely supported goals of 5G:

• Increased data volume: 1,000x increase over current levels. This means it will be possible for many people and devices, sending large files, to transact across a wireless connection without performance impact.

• Low latency: 5x reduction in transit time. The low-latency requirement of as little as 1ms (in certain cases) end-to-end round trip is intended to enable real-time control applications to run across the 5G network. Some have identified a round trip of 5ms as a goal.

• Faster data-transfer speed: 10-100x higher speeds. Improvements in bandwidth have characterized every new generation of wireless networks. The goal of 5G is to support 1-10Gbps connections to endpoints in the field.

• More devices: 10-100x devices. 5G intends to increase the number supported in a given area by a factor of between 10x and 100x (thereby enabling IoT) ‚Äì sometimes stated as one million devices per square kilometer ‚Äì with devices able to travel at up to 500km per hour.

• Energy efficiency: The 5G initiative aims to extend device battery life by a factor of 10, and reduce core network consumption by 90%.

• High availability: The aspirational goal of 5G is to create the perception of five-nines availability, achieved through distributed loads and redundancy.

• 100% coverage: The ability to provide good coverage in all areas is another aspirational goal of 5G ‚Äì the extent and achievability of this is highly debatable.

• Rapid service deployment: One goal is to rapidly reduce the time it takes to deploy 5G network connections, using self-organizing network technology.