Program Offers $100M in Funding For Wireless Development

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Revolutionizing the wireless environments ecosystem was the topic of discussion at Wednesday’s WIA Infrastructure Show session. To kickstart the plan, a $100 million fund has been established by a blending of science and industry. The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program is a joint effort by the National Science Foundation and a wireless industry consortium to create city-scale testing platforms to accelerate fundamental research on wireless communication and networking technologies. The PAWR Project Office (PPO) is managing the public-private partnership to stand-up and oversee these eventual testing platforms. The PPO is run by US Ignite, Inc., and Northeastern University.

The featured speakers on yesterday’s panel were: Grant Seiffert, of Connected Nation, Bob D’Eletto of Keysight Technologies, Nick Maynard of US Ignite and Rebecca Hunter of Crown Castle.  

The PPO will collaborate with NSF, the wireless research community, local communities, and industry in the design, development, deployment, and initial operations of the research platforms. PAWR will enable experimental exploration of robust new wireless devices, communication techniques, networks, systems, and services that will revolutionize the nation’s wireless ecosystem, thereby enhancing broadband connectivity, leveraging the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), and sustaining U.S. leadership and economic competitiveness.

Once deployed, the platforms will address pre-competitive research challenges on at-scale research platforms, increasing education about wireless technologies and data networking, increasing academic-industry cooperative partnerships, and accelerating technology commercialization and transfer from academia to industry.

May 25, 2017      

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