ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC of Rome, NY, announced it was awarded a $2 million contract by the DoD to establish a 5G testbed ecosystem called 5GTE for advanced telecommunications experimentation.
According to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency officials, the objective of the 5GTE is to develop a scalable, open-source Internet of Things 5G test environment capability to support research and development of nascent 5G technologies and advanced telecommunications use cases, both fixed and mobile.
The focus of 5GTE is to provide an open-source, realistic 5G RAN to enable rapid prototyping of wireless protocols and applications including, but not limited to cyber security, artificial intelligence, and multi-access edge-computing.
A key requirement of 5GTE, per ANDRO President Dr. Andrew Drozd, is the ability to rapidly and accurately scale as new technologies and devices are introduced or become available. “The 5GTE must also provide remote access and device update capabilities. To broaden the range of supported devices and to facilitate development, 5GTE will have the ability to support different wireless communication technologies, for example, 4G, wireless fidelity, and others,” stated Drozd.
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