On this episode of HetNet Happenings, host Sean Kinney takes a look at the recent IEEE Globecom show in San Diego, Calif. Kinney gets an overview of the standard setting organization's flagship event from general chairman Ed Tiedemann, a Qualcomm SVP, and also learns about the standardization outlook for next-generation 5G mobile networks. From there, Kinney demos LAA/Wi-Fi aggregation technology from Qualcomm, and hears from National Instruments about MIMO prototyping.