Ribbon, a communications software company focused on helping clients to modernize their digital networks, has been selected to assist Texas A&M University with its efforts to manage wireless backhaul on its private 5G research network. As Lightwave reports, routing will be handled by Ribbon’s NPT 1800 multi-service aggregation router and NPT 2100 access edge and pre-aggregation router. The arrangement was designed specifically for the TAMU research community and its various linked locations.
“As one of the world’s most advanced research centers, we require a state-of-the-art network to conduct testing in areas such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, advanced manufacturing, smart grids, software defined networking, next-generation wireless networks, and more,” stated Michael Fox, Interim Executive Director, ITEC, TAMU. “Working with Ribbon ensures that we benefit from the highest guaranteed performance for these mission-critical communications.”
The facilities connected by the Ribbon technology will include the Engineering and Computer Science labs on TAMU’s main campus, the Disaster City public safety training area, the RELLIS campus labs and testbeds, and the labs at the Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center IITEC). Texas A&M ITEC has been at the forefront of developing technologies for first responder communications.
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