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Open 5G stand-alone campus network for researchers
For an open and flexible system and net architecture for the industry 4,0 applications of tomorrow co-operation and preliminary work are crucial, like this propagation simulation. (Pictures: FMBE GmbH)
The German researchers are stepping on the accelerator when it comes to 5G. A few days after the IPT in Aachen announced the introduction of 5G audits, a message flutters on the FUENF-G desk that another leading German research institute has set up an autonomous 5G campus network to simulate and evaluate industrial applications.
A few days ago FUENF-G reported that the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT from Aachen plans to support manufacturing companies with 5G audits and thus make them fit for future production with 5G. Yesterday, two partners went public who realize exactly such open and flexible system and network architectures: FMBE and siticom provide an open 5G stand-alone campus network for a testbed, but do not explicitly mention the name of the German research institute, only that it is located in Bavaria.
The two partners will implement the open 5G stand-alone campus solution using native cloud technologies. FMBE planned and implemented the RF network in the licensed 3.7 GHz range for private 5G applications indoor and outdoor, including the installation and integration of the radio units. To ensure the network quality required for future Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications, the RF network design was software-supported, including level planning, calculation of the RF quality of supply and simulation of the propagation simulation in 2D and 3D.
Quality of service must be ensured
Industry 4.0 applications, especially in the area of mobile machine-to-machine communication, result in much more demanding requirements for RF network design than is the case with conventional voice and data communication via LTE mobile radio or WLAN networks. When mobile network participants, such as autonomous drones or mobile robots, move around in a smart factory, they are confronted with signal effects such as reflections, diffractions, refractions or scattering at machines, shadowing and higher attenuation behavior in this frequency range.
„In order to ensure a sufficient quality of supply at any location, i.e. in the case of a drone also outdoors at a height of several meters, a highly available RF network design is critical. This can only be ensured by software-supported planning and complex propagation simulations in 2D and 3D.“
Olaf Kämmer, RF planner and expert for 5G campus networks at FMBE
Together with siticom, who provided a Cloud Native 5G Core system architecture and Multi-Access Edge Computing infrastructure, the partner companies created an open system and network architecture that meets the requirements for testing various Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications in practice.
„FMBE’s experience in planning and building wireless network components complements our expertise in the areas of software-based and virtualized infrastructure solutions that form the basis of modern 5G architecture.“
Christian Freund, Director 5G Solution & Services at siticom
Background
siticom GmbH
siticom GmbH was founded ten years ago and focuses on the digital transformation of infrastructure and networks. The experts offer technical and strategic consulting up to engineering services for planning and realization of network infrastructures in communication networks and corporate networks. In doing so, the independent system integrator takes on consulting, design and architecture as well as system and implementation responsibility.FMBE GmbH
FMBE GmbH (Fixed & Mobile Broadband Engineering) is a medium-sized telecommunications service provider with approx. 50 employees at two locations in Rastatt and Groß-Gerau. The company plans and implements the networks of the future; from the supply of modern office complexes and campus networks with 5G, LTE, Tetra-BOS and WLAN to the project planning and implementation of fiber optic broadband networks.
Parts of this text are translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator.
