UPDATE The Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University is preparing for the evolution from 5G to 6G technology. Its new “Lab to Life” (L2L) digital innovation platform will provide real world glimpses into the next generation of wireless in the Discovery Park District, where 20,000 people live, work and learn.
Mung Chiang, Purdue’s Executive Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, stressed the importance of performing 6G research to look at dynamic sharing, higher spectrum ranges, edge intelligence and open architecture in a real-world setting. Purdue has formed the Technology Leaders Advisory Board to advise on this and other infrastructure build outs, including AT&T, Celona, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, Intel, SBA Communications and Tilson.
“This group of prominent industry partners and their leaders will turn Purdue’s Discovery Park District into the country’s first at-scale 6G deployment zone, and, along with other essential elements like learning and the arts, create a work-live-play connected community,” Chiang said.
A neutral-host infrastructure is deployed across the L2L’s 400-acre, $1 billion-plus purpose-driven community district for the development of next-generation wireless networks and digital applications.
Earlier this year, PRF announced that Tilson would deploy more than 15 miles of high-capacity fiber, emanating from an edge data center, and SBA Communications would deploy a private CBRS network throughout the district.
“Our vision has been to not only provide one of the most connected communities in the U.S. for the residents, employers and visitors in the district,” said David Broecker, chief innovation and collaboration officer for PRF. “We also wanted to create an innovation community with a set of capabilities and assets to advance digital solutions in collaboration with leading technology companies and industrial partners.”
Later this fall, a competition for deployment-ready, cutting-edge innovation will be held. Universities and companies will be invited to suggest technologies they would like to deploy in either the infrastructure or the applications of 5G, WiFi6 and 6G.
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