The UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), organiser of the competition “Future RAN : Diversifying the 5G supply chain”. Has decide to finance Coordinate Multipoint Open Radio Access Network, or CoMP-O-RAN for short.
Dense Air’s project. Will revolutionise the performance and cost of densifie outdoor 5G New Radio (5G NR) small cell networks to achieve widespread 5G coverage across the UK. Says Dense Air. The rollout of 5G and the mass provision of gigabit services by mobile network operators is critical to the UK’s economic development.
Julia Lopez Minister of State for Media and Data: “
Our mobile networks play an increasingly important role in our lives and our businesses. That’s why we are investing £36 million in innovative projects to Costa Rican Phone Number List ensure our networks remain secure for decades to come. I am delighted that such a large number of innovative companies are now joining FRANC (Future RAN Competition) to create a more competitive and resilient telecoms supply chain.”
The successful projects in the DCMS Future of Open RAN competition were announced on 8 December 2021 and will receive a share of the £36 million 5G research and development funding to support and promote 5G technology developments in the UK. The competition directly supports the UK government’s 5G Supply Chain Diversification Strategy.
Paul Senior CEO of Dense Air:
On behalf of Dense Air and our consortium partners. We are delight that the UK Government has select our CoMP-O-RAN project as part of its DCMS 5G Future RAN competition. The technology being develop as part of this project will fundamentally change the economics of deployment and the ‘cost per Gbit’ of Open RAN solutions in the UK and other international markets.”
The consortium, consisting of Dense Air (lead). Airspan Communications. Blu Wireless UK. Radisys UK and the University of Glasgow. Aims to develop a commercially deployable 5G NR O-RAN Distribut Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) – CoMP-O-RAN.
Eric Stonestrom, President and CEO of Airspan Cell Phone Number Database Communications. We are thrilled to be a member of this consortium. To accelerate 5G and Open RAN innovation as Airspan develops new capabilities in our radios through Split-6 virtualization and embed mmWave fronthaul transport solutions. We believe this technology will play a key role in future 5G solutions.”
Alan Jones CEO of Blu Wireless said: “
As 5G networks continue to scale and densify. Innovative ways to maintain performance and bandwidth will be requir. The use of Blu Wireless’s low-latency mmWave technology to enable CoMP-O-RAN will have.
CoMP-O-RAN will enable future 5G small cell networks to benefit from radio processing techniques. Already used in massive MIMO macro cells. Importantly. CoMP-O-RAN Bulk Database will improve small cell operation in interference-limited scenarios. Shared access spectrum (3.8-4.2 GHz) and the US CBRS (3.55-3.7 GHz).
Professor Muhammad Imran from the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow said. “This project is a great opportunity to implement algorithms and techniques . Developed by our sensing and imaging group into a promising real-world system. We expect end users to benefit from an improved experience and reduced costs of digital connectivity. We look forward to working with our partners to develop the CoMP algorithm.”
