Georg Mayer, 3GPP TSG SA Chairman and Balazs Bertenyi, 3GPP TSG RAN Chairman will guide industry verticals through the processes and timelines for this new release with practical insights on all-important inputs and support available.

Representatives from 5GAA, 5G-ACIA, EUTC, 5G-MAG and the 5G Health Association will share their technical viewpoints and requirements, looking for commonalities and priorities that can help lower barriers to 5G standardisation.

Participants will get the chance to pose questions to the panellists and engage in an interactive discussion.

For more information and registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XlhT4s23TdS5mDkI0ONGaw

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Athonet provides a complete software-based mobile core solution for centralized or highly distributed edge-cloud deployments. With over a decade of experience on the field, Athonet’s customer portfolio spans from telecommunication operators to vertical industries such as energy, mining, and public safety.
The company received a record amount of four Global Mobile Awards at the 2019 edition of the Mobile World Congress, including the prestigious CTO’s Choice Award.

In the context of Affordable5G, Athonet has been evolving its 4G/5G-NSA Software Mobile Core towards a full-fledged 5G SA core network. The 5G-SA Software Mobile Core by Athonet is compliant to 3GPP Rel-15 and newer technical specifications. The apparatus is based on an extremely flexible software architecture on top of which the 3GPP network functions (NFs) are implemented. This asset represents a crucial technological enabler of the pilot tests envisioned by the Affordable5G project.

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Critical Communications World brings mission-critical and business-critical end-users and manufacturers all together, under one roof, all for free.

Don’t miss the chance to know more about Affordable5G’s emergency communication pilot, save the date and stay tuned. We will provide the more details closer to the event.

For more information on the event: http://affordable5g.eu/event/tccas-critical-c…unications-world/

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8Bells’ main areas of research and technical expertise are customizable solutions that enhance modern communications relevant to the area of 5G Mobile Technology, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and management solutions for Cloud infrastructures. The company possesses a portfolio of cybersecurity solutions that can be used for risk assessment, cyber-hygiene, anomaly detection, and threat remediation. Special advisory services include identifying, evaluating, implementing and distributing new investment opportunities, innovation management, technology transfer and exploitation.

The company has strong focus on R&D with a long track record in EU- and national-funded research initiatives, project engagements focused on 5G, AI, cybersecurity, Future Internet Platforms, health, industry 4.0 and IoT, Cloud & Edge computing, energy, security and defence.

In Affordable5G, 8Bells will contribute to technical activities using a variety of open-source tools for cloud and network monitoring, Open-Source MANO for NFV management, and conduct technoeconomic and market analysis for the innovative Affordable5G use cases. 

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i2CAT’s activities are concentrated around, but not limited to, novel network services and technologies (fixed and mobile), open access networks, sensor networks, e-health, networked media systems and industrial Internet, with special focus on NFV and SDW/N technologies, new clean slate architectures, Future Internet experimentation, sensor networks, IoT, M2M.

In Affordable5G, I2CAT will provide an integrated access and backhaul Wi-Fi outdoor solution that can be used to support the deployment of dense outdoor deployments. Moreover, major focus will be concentrated on the development of a non-real time RAN Controller adhering to the O-RAN A1 interface. i2CAT will also provide an slice manager that enables neutral hosting capabilities and the deployment of isolated end-to-end infrastructure network slices. Building on this, an AI-based component will be introduced to predict slice resource outages from the expected demand to ensure SLA.

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Nemergent has a vast portfolio that includes a complete and fully 3GPP standard compliant Mission Critical Services (MCPTT, MCData & MCVideo) ecosystem. The server-side components are designed as NFV components, fostering agile and flexible deployments towards 5G.

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