Meet us at EuCNC & 6G Summit

After the challenging years of COVID-19 restrictions, this year’s European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) and 6G summit will be exclusively for in-person attendance in the beautiful city of Gothenburg, known for its spirit of new horizons, trade, culture, knowledge, and discoveries.

It will showcase 6G visions and early technology following the launch of numerous regional 6G initiatives. It is rewarding to witness Europe’s prominent position in mobile communications research with the Smart Networks and Services (SNS) joint undertaking. It’s rewarding to see the start of multiple projects concentrating on radical technological advancements for 6G.

The SNS is led jointly by industry and the European Commission. It has set out both the strategy and the tools to develop technology capacities for 6G systems. Only recently, it has launched 35 projects with a combined EU funding of around EUR 250 million. And more is expected this year with a call for project proposals of EUR 132 million. These efforts involve experimental infrastructures, large-scale trials, and pilots for various industries.

The EuCNC & 6G Summit this year will showcase the state of the art of research in communication networks and associated topics, with numerous exciting keynotes, panels, sessions, workshops, tutorials, exhibitions with a Speakers’ Corner, and an outstanding social programme.

To find out more information about the event, please visit the EuCNC & 6G Summit website here.

Come and meet our colleague Konstantinos Antonakoglou, Future Networks Technologist on the 5G-VICTORI booth, located #H03:12 and #H03:14, with a demo of the 5G-VIOS platform.

As deploying 5G solutions for vertical industries in Europe is a well-defined objective, there is a clear need to develop future proof 5G infrastructures to address a wide range of vertical applications adopting a flexible architecture, offering converged services across heterogeneous technology domains deploying unified software control. It is true to say that despite the European strategy to support verticals through 5G solutions, verticals face the problem that they can only practically verify their use cases in small scales in commercially relevant environments before investing in large scale deployments. Through ICT-17 projects, EU has invested in the development of 5G ICT infrastructures that will become available to verticals to test their applications. ICT-17 projects provide small scale testbed infrastructures that in some cases need suitable extensions to enable integration of verticals and allow a small scale testing environment for vertical commercially relevant infrastructures. However, large scale trials are not possible with the current ICT-17 facilities. In view of this, 5G-VICTORI aims at conducting large scale trials for advanced use case verification in a commercially relevant 5G environment for a number of verticals including Transportation, Energy, Media and Factories of the Future as well as some specific use cases involving cross-vertical interaction (Figure 1). The specific use cases that 5G VICTORI will concentrate on include:

• “Enhanced Mobile broadband under high speed mobility”, Vertical: Transportation – Rail,
• “Digital Mobility”, Cross-Vertical – Transportation and Media,
• “Critical services for railway systems”, Vertical: Rail,
• “Smart Energy Metering”, Cross-Vertical: Energy and Rail,
• “Digitization of Power Plants”, Vertical: Smart Factory, and
• “CDN services in dense, static and mobile environments”, Vertical: Media