wireless Archives - Affordable5G project http://affordable5g.eu/tag/wireless/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:03:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 http://affordable5g.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/fav.png wireless Archives - Affordable5G project http://affordable5g.eu/tag/wireless/ 32 32 NGI Open Calls: Q&A session http://affordable5g.eu/event/ngi-open-calls-qa-session/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.affordable5g.eu/event/ngi-open-calls-qa-session/ The NGI Open Calls Q&A Session is an opportunity to: learn key insights on the current NGI Open Calls. receive...

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The NGI Open Calls Q&A Session is an opportunity to:

  • learn key insights on the current NGI Open Calls.
  • receive tips for shaping an effective proposal.
  • meet NGI innovators and foster collaboration.

The topics featured in the Open Calls range from safe Internet, blockchain ecosystems to Cloud, IoT, wireless and 5G testbeds.

For more information and registration: https://www.ngi.eu/event/ngi-open-calls-qa-session/

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Predictions on private 5G networks http://affordable5g.eu/predictions-on-private-5g-networks/ Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:02:26 +0000 https://www.affordable5g.eu/?p=724 In a recent article on Fierce Wireless, analyst Kyung Mun offers a window onto the future of Private 5G networks....

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In a recent article on Fierce Wireless, analyst Kyung Mun offers a window onto the future of Private 5G networks.

Starting out from the current mobile industry innovation trends, a key through line is evident: the focus on modularization of connectivity and computing functions, which offer the opportunity and flexibility to deploy networks in a new way. This enables new players to provide a fresh perspective on how a network should be deployed and offered to end customers, which is playing out in the private LTE and 5G marketplace.

Enterprises of various sizes and vertical markets are looking to tap into the 5G promises of reliable low-latency links, via the following business models:

  • Enterprise-direct – an enterprise fully owns and manages a standalone private wireless network on-premise;
  • Hybrid managed service – a specific portion of a private wireless network is owned and operated (e.g., RAN) while others are outsourced (e.g., core, applications);
  • Private wireless-as-a-service – an enterprise adopts a full cloud model and attains private wireless connectivity “as a service” from a third-party provider (Variations on this theme can include locally managed radios, or network slicing).

Some industries like utilities prefer the Enterprise-direct model as they are accustomed to making fully capitalized network investments that last a couple of decades. Meanwhile, smaller enterprises may be looking to the Hybrid managed or Private wireless-as-a-service model to alleviate upfront costs.

Mun, concluding his analysis: “Over the next ten years, we expect Private 5G networks to lead innovation in many ways, including virtualization and the use of open-source for simple and scalable software. The integration of private 5G and edge computing is likely to be tighter and more effective than in legacy telecom networks. In time, we can also expect the private 5G world to bring these key innovations back into public 5G networks, creating benefits for everyone.”

To read the original article, click here.

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Open-source 5G to drive private 5G http://affordable5g.eu/open-source-5g-to-drive-private-5g/ Tue, 06 Apr 2021 08:18:50 +0000 https://www.affordable5g.eu/?p=718 As recently reported by RTInsights, Open-source solutions can help Saving CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) and OPEX (Operating Expense), which is key...

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As recently reported by RTInsights, Open-source solutions can help Saving CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) and OPEX (Operating Expense), which is key for enterprises in order to upgrade to a private 5G/LTE networks.

The LTE networks currently in use among enterprises are provided by telecom operators, which spend a huge amount of money to acquire wireless spectrum licenses from governments: most enterprises cannot spend much money to acquire their own spectrum, although some countries (Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Hong Kong, and Australia) offer low-cost licenses, and more are planning to follow.

To build their own private LTE networks, enterprises cannot afford spending more on proprietary resources that are expensive to maintain, upgrade, and replace in fallback situations: the upcoming trend is saving CAPEX and OPEX by going after open-source Evolved Packet Core (EPC) software and vendor-agnostic hardware resources to run any platform.

Open-source solutions such as Aether project and FreedomFi, along with Magma (backed by communities like ONF, OpenStack, Open-Air Interface) are good starting points to kickstart a network upgrade.

To read the original RTInsights article, click here.

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Meet the Partners: RunEL http://affordable5g.eu/meet-the-partners-runel/ Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:35:50 +0000 https://www.affordable5g.eu/?p=689 RunEL, funded in March 2015, is carving its way to be a technology leader in the 5G mobile wireless revolution....

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RunEL, funded in March 2015, is carving its way to be a technology leader in the 5G mobile wireless revolution. The company vision is improving life experience by connecting people and things using superior technology. Its mission is to introduce the revolutionary Sparq-2020 chipset for 5G infrastructure (O-RU and O-DU), that will become a significant player in Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC).

RunEL consists of a team of mobile communication experts that invented and pioneered the OFDMA technology back in the 2000-2006 timeframe and introduced it to the standards, in order to become the physical layer basis of the 4th Generation LTE and WiMAX cellular networks of today. The team is now reinforced by young and talented researchers, in order to maintain its technological leadership in the OFDMA field and to lead the way towards the 5th Generation revolution.

RunEL is an active member in five 5G consortiums – WIN (funded by the Israel Innovation Authority) and IoRL, 5 Genesis, Affordable 5G and 6G Brains (funded by the European Union) – in which the company is collaborating with numerous other firms and research institutes in the development and promotion of 5G generic technologies. In addition, RunEL is currently developing an AI-based Scheduler under the Innovation Authority’s Magnet Star project, and a MM Wave 5G Remote Radio Head under the Bird Foundation.

The company is targeting several markets with its family of products and its disrupting SoC solution, including 5G equipment vendors, integrators, OEMs, URLLC vertical market system integrators, FPGA vendors, vertical operators and cellular operators.

In the specific context of the Affordable5G project, RunEL will provide its O-RU to the two testbeds in Malaga and Barcelona. The O-RU will be at 3.5GHz band, will interconnect northbound with the Eurecom DU, and will provide access via 5G air interface to commercial UE terminals.

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Cisco’s private 5G enterprise vision http://affordable5g.eu/ciscos-private-5g-enterprise-vision/ Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:57:37 +0000 https://www.affordable5g.eu/?p=671 Private 5G enterprise networks are becoming an increasingly attractive opportunity for specialised vendors – each private network’s size and software/hardware...

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Private 5G enterprise networks are becoming an increasingly attractive opportunity for specialised vendors – each private network’s size and software/hardware requirements to be tailored to the means and goals of each enterprise.

Cisco recently revealed their vision on private 5G enterprise – highly aligned with Affordable5G’s philosophy and objectives – and driven by the “simplicity wins” motto.

The company is involved in several private wireless trials and deployments globally, “working with leading carriers and leading enterprises just to understand how we can simplify this”, in the words of Jonathan Davidson, SVP and GM at Cisco’s Mass Scale Infrastructure Group, whose statements were featured in an extensive article on sdx central.

Davidson clarifies Cisco’s take on private 5G enterprise: “We’re going to enable our customers to buy our technology any way that makes sense for our customers. But we also want to realize that cloud has dramatically changed every single industry that it’s touched, and we don’t want to miss a transition where we have an inflection of two technologies — cloud and 5G — and we think that those two things can live together in harmony”.

To read more about Cisco’s vision: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cisco-reveals-private-5g-enterprise-vision/2021/03/

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