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one2many, an Everbridge company and Cumucore have integrated the one2many's Cell Broadcast Centre Function with the Access and Mobility Function of Cumucore's 5G core

The Fraunhofer FOKUS 5G+ Nomadic Node enables the need based deployment of a non-public, temporary network for emergency services.

This year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) is taking place in Barcelona, from February 17th until March 2nd, and multiple partners from FUDGE-5G will be attending.

By 2030 there may be 1000s of private networks in transport and logistics, and perhaps tens of 1000s.

“The Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) wants to give industry and verticals early access to 5G in non-public networks (NPN) on a localized area."

Athonet is successfully collaborating with Cumucore and Nemergent in multi-vendor deployments of 5G networks and mission-critical services (MCX).

FUDGE-5G is proud to announce that our project partner Cumucore has installed its 5G SA 5.4 core successfully with Ericsson 5G RAN to deliver Industry 4.0 use case for ABB, ABB is a FUDGE-5G advisory board member.

On the 12th of December, OneSource delivered a presentation and a hands-on workshop on 5G Networks, as part of the advanced training program for master’s students from the Computer Science Department of University of Coimbra.

The FUDGE-5G consortium is meeting in Berlin on December 6th and 7th for the 9th FUDGE-5G General Assembly. In this meeting, the status of work packages, use cases and innovations will be discussed. The meeting is taking place at Fraunhofer FOKUS premises and remotely.

The activity follows approval for satellite-driven 5G non-terrestrial networks (5G NTNs) from the 3GPP global telecommunications standards' body. 5G non-terrestrial networks could help to provide complete global 5G coverage – including areas currently not served by terrestrial networks. This initial work in France would be to test and validate 5G NTN to gain leverage from the satellite and ICT ecosystem.

Telenor, Intel and the Norwegian Air Ambulance, recently demonstrated the 5G Network on Wheels (NOW) in a disaster scenario at the ULENDT., an interdisciplinary training camp for Norwegian SAR operators.

Enterprises across several industries are building private 5G networks. Saf Malik looks at what its widespread adoption could look like.

Huawei continues to demonstrate its devotion to supporting and advancing 5G NPN related solutions. As demonstrated in a number of recent events, partnering with telecom operators and industrial partners has led to improvements of existing and a range of novel solutions to 5G private networks.

Every year European technology enthusiasts gather to converse on the latest ICT achievements in the research community, both industry and academia. In June 2022 Grenoble hosted the EUCNC conference titled “6G Summit” which also featured an exhibition alongside all sessions where organisations and European Commission-funded projects present their developed technologies. As FUDGE-5G is in their last project year, it was the ideal event to demonstrate the Service-Based Architecture platform under trial this year across the vertical use cases in the 5G-PPP project.

Join the ongoing FUDGE-5G tutorial where we are presenting the project present the project 5G research and experimentation results.

FUDGE-5G and 5G-HEART organized a joint showcase workshop to share 5G use cases.

FUDGE-5G invites all 5G experts and stakeholders to join the project tutorial.

The FUDGE-5G consortium is meeting in Oslo on september 13th and 14th for the 8th FUDGE-5G General Assembly.

One2many, an Everbridge company, brings the Alerting Cell Broadcast Center Function (CBCF) developed in the FUDGE-5G project and the Alerting Prototype Chatbot developed in the ENGAGE project together. Both are Research Grants enabled by the European Union Horizon 2020 program, from different work programs.

The second day of the EuCNC is currently ongoing, taking place in Grenoble, France. Come visit FUDGE-5G and Affordable5G at booth 39 to see the projects latest develoments.

From 8 – 10 June 2022 the two European Commission Horizon 2020 projects FUDGE-5G and Affordable5G are jointly organising a booth at the European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) taking place in Grenoble, France. At booth 39, the projects will demonstrate their latest innovations in 5G private networks.

On 16 June 2022, a combined event organized between 5GLOGINNOV, FUDGE-5G and AFFORDABLE 5G projects will take place online.

The work on "Private 5G for search and rescue operation"  done by the FUDGE-5G partners, has been shortlisted for a CCW award in the category "Best Use of advanced technology (AI, UAVs, SA etc)". 

The conference "IoT and 5G in the Industry" took place in Oslo on the 10th and 11th of May, where Kashif Mahmood from Telenor Research and Waqas Ikram from ABB did a presentation on FUDGE-5G.

The FUDGE-5G consortium is meeting on May 4th and 5th for the 7th FUDGE-5G General Assembly at Helsinki, Finland.

The projects 5G-LOGINNOV, FUDGE 5G and Affordable 5G are conjointly organizing an online technical workshop

5G Non-Public Networks (NPN) are receiving a very high attention from different use cases passing from the initial proof of concept towards the next stage of development of a digital ecosystem that guarantees open radio technologies and interoperable network components.

On the week of February 21st, 2022, OneSource’s team traveled to Oslo in order to kick off the trials for the 5G Virtual Office for Hospitals Use Case.

Ferrovial deploys one of the world's first 5G SA private wireless networks for its Silvertown Tunnel Construction site

Why Private Networks Are the Key to Realising Industry 4.0, evaluates the capabilities that private networks can bring to the enterprise.

Some companies are creating their own networks to power the ‘Internet of Things’

On January 26th-27th, UPTIME, the global event hosted in the evocative setting of Villa Griffone, home of Guglielmo Marconi and cradle of wireless communications

On Dec. 14th, 2021, Athonet gave a presentation at the 2021 4th IEEE 5G Workshop on First Responder and Tactical Networks

OneSource, in partnership with Telenor and Red Hat, has migrated its Mobitrust Situational Awareness

The FUDGE-5G Network on Wheel (NOW) was recently used for Interference testing of 5G and Radar Altimeters.

The FUDGE-5G consortium is meeting on February 2nd and 3rd for the 6th FUDGE-5G General Assembly

FUDGE-5G is pleased to announce the publication of the project 5th newsletter “Analyses of CBCF – SCP in 5GC”.

Private 4G and 5G networks are rapidly becoming mainstream. This isn’t news.

Introduction AWS Private 5G | Amazon Web Services

A new report by analyst house ABI Research says the traditional telco community is restructuring its enterprise operations,

Learn how ASOCS partnered with Microsoft to provide fully cloud managed private 5G networks on Azure private MEC

After the first year of the FUDGE-5G project, the mid-term review took place. The project partners presented the phase-1 progress and introduced the phase-2 plan.

A panel of technical experts outlined reasons non-traditional vendors are expected to gain a foothold in 5G core networks

According to the report, "Currently, the 5G-VINNI and FUDGE-5G trials in Norway would be considered the most advanced ongoing 5G trial projects in Europe."

Airports hold opportunities for both public & private 5G networks, although telcos need to choose their roles carefully.

From 21 – 23 September 2021, the 5G World Summit took place in London

Nokia today said it will deploy its 5G standalone (SA) Core for DISH on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS).

Don’t miss an engaging talk by Mike Skarp, Senior Product Manager at Cumucore on “5G Time Sensitive Network (TSN)”. This on-demand talk is part of the Private 5G for Industry 4.0 ONF Spotlight event taking place September 28-30.

Intel powers private networks, market to reach $5.7b in 2024

NTT Private 5G platform

The vision for 5G goes well beyond the classical telecoms services supported by earlier mobile network generations.

The evolution of a cloud native telco platform is seen as a key innovation process to fully unlock 5G’s potential, embracing the whole ecosystem, including infrastructure and edge deployments.

This article is a first in the series about how to architect an open 5G solution built with open source technologies at core, that can work across any hyperscaler.

OPPO announced the world’s first 5G SA-Compatible eSIM developed in collaboration with the world’s leading eSIM connectivity management company, Thales.

The FUDGE-5G Consortium is meeting on June 21st and 22nd for the 4th FUDGE-5G General Assembly.

FUDGE-5G is proud to announce that Hewlett Packard Enterprise is joining as a member of the external advisory board.

OneSource, on behalf of FUDGE-5G is presenting the poster - Fully Disintegrated Private Networks for 5G Verticals – at EuCNC

Industrial communications are mostly based on wired industrial networks, a configuration that is inflexible and complex.

Since the “freezing” of the much awaited 3GPP Release-16 in July 2020, many network equipment vendors have sought to develop 5G core/5G stand alone (5G SA) network capabilities.

The sixth issue of the European 5G Annual Journal was released at the end of May 2021.

Nokia president and CEO Pekka Lundmark insisted the support of mission critical applications will be a game changer for 5G in the industrial sector.

FUDGE-5G proposal for a 5G Private Networks Workshop in the 2021 joint EuCNC and 6G Summit has been accepted. It is a full day workshop on June 8th with four sessions, two in the morning and two in the afternoon.

Telenor continues to push the boundaries of connectivity by introducing the world’s most diverse multi-vendor 5G Standalone solution to date.

Several connectivity tests were performed by OneSource using two different 5G SA network lab deployments in Portugal: one provided by IT Aveiro, and another provided by Altice Labs.

Since the “freezing” of the much awaited 3GPP Release-16 in July 2020, many network equipment vendors have sought to develop 5G core/5G stand alone (5G SA) network capabilities

FUDGE-5G is happy to announce that Goodmill Systems is joining the consortium and will be part of the external Advisory Board as a stakeholder on the PPDR Use Case.

MAESTRO, expands its capabilities towards Service-based 5G architecture

FUDGE-5G is proud to share with you our WP1 deliverable D1.1 - "Technical Blueprint for Vertical Use Cases and Validation Framework", available for download below.

This year, a private 5G network may well be coming to a factory near you. For mainstream businesses, it’s time to watch and learn.

Birmingham-based AE Aerospace is to be the first UK SME to deploy a 5G private network working with WM5G, W5G and BT on three new 5G use cases set to transform manufacturing productivity.

The FUDGE-5G consortium is meeting on meeting March 9th and 10th. In this meeting, the status of work packages, use cases and innovations is being discussed.

Analysys Mason's Private LTE/5G networks tracker tracks the deployment of commercial private LTE and 5G networks worldwide.

We have improved our 5G playground: Fraunhofer FOKUS’ private campus network is now ready for further use case tests with partners.

Trade fair operator Deutsche Messe has secured a private 5G licence from German network agency BNetzA for the Hanover fairground in Germany, home to Germany’s flagship Industrie 4.0 event.

Demand for private cellular networking equipment to support mission critical applications will see the market reach $5.7 billion by 2024, according to a new study by IDC.

Non-Public Networks (NPNs) offer a variety of deployment configurations and options.

The webinar is to present the 8 new 5G Core Technologies projects joining the 5G-PPP to accelerate innovation in the development and take up of 5G.

Flexible production lines, automated logistics processes, connected machines and real-time data analysis - the future of industry lies in an efficient, digital connectivity.

Cloud is transforming every part of the technology world, and communications service provider (CSP) networks are no exception.

Bosch has put live a private 5G network with Nokia at its factory in Stuttgart-Feuerbach, and confirmed another at its research campus in Renningen.

The Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), through the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM), leads a European project to offer 5G networks on demand, a private “super WiFi”, with “revolutionary” features for the industry and other environments such as hospitals or universities.

one2many, a FUDGE-5G project partner, has published a newsletter with an overview of the FUDGE-5G project.

In late January 2021, our project partner Athonet will host the first edition of UPTIME, the conference celebrating 10 years of the Private LTE industry.

The FUDGE-5G consortium is meeting on December 14th and 15th. In this meeting, the status of work packages, use cases and innovations is being discussed.

Cumucore has completed the laboratory testbed for 5G SA including Base Band unit with two indoors radio heads connected directly to Cumucore own 5G SA core.

The Technology Board of the 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5GPPP) is organizing an online Workshop for the members of the 5G PPP community featuring results from on-going Research Projects, their findings and innovations.

A demonstration of the Mobitrust platform was presented at Techdays Aveiro on Saturday, October 17th, 2020.

The Hellenic Telecoms and Post Commission (EETT) has put aside spectrum in three groupings for universities and startups to research and develop 5G-based services

Interesting webinar and white paper from Real Wirelesss about Private Networks

The FUDGE-5G consortium met in the September 8 and 9 for the kick off meeting.

Spending on private and shared enterprise networks will surpass spending on public cellular networks in about 15 years.

This roadmap will provide the foundations for a sustainable European technology sovereignty in 5G and beyond.

Eleven new Horizon 2020 projects under the European 5G Public-Private Partnership (5G-PPP), will kick off in September 2020.