China’s ZTE has teamed up with Thailand’s largest mobile operator Advanced Info Service (AIS) to demonstrate the use of a dynamic reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in a mmWave trial at the AZ center in Bangkok. Claimed as a world first, the companies argue that use of RIS enables the headline performance of mmWave achievable previously over static devices connected point to point to be approached in more real world conditions. ZTE adopted the dynamic RIS product in the AIS mmWave network with 400 MHz of bandwidth, sustaining peak downlink rates of over 1.6 Gbps and a peak uplink rate over 260 Mbps to devices moving within a large office room. “We believe that this technology will accelerate the arrival of…