A series of Future Capability Papers, authored by the UKTIN Expert Working Groups have been published over recent months. Find out more here.
UKTIN spoke to Howard Benn and Luis Lopes, Co-Chairs of the UKTIN Standards Expert Working Group, to learn more about the group’s paper.
The Department of Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is conducting a survey of UK businesses. Help us understand how we can support innovation in businesses and shape future policies.
DSIT, in collaboration with PA Consulting, is conducting a survey of businesses to better understanding the nature of how UK businesses adopt and distribute ‘innovative new technologies or processes’.
The Flex-5G project has successfully developed an Open RAN compliant 5G Standalone (5G SA) network. Leveraging a unique approach to Software-Defined Radio, Flex-5G’s network solution exhibits remarkable adaptability, dynamically responding to real-time variables such as traffic demands and spectrum availability. This innovative flexibility ensures the extraction of maximum performance and efficiency tailored to a wide array of 5G use cases.
India’s 5G deployment is expanding rapidly with almost half the population (49%) expected to be using the mobile technology by the end of the decade, according to new figures released by the GSMA ahead of its involvement in October’s India Mobile Congress.
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D-Wave Quantum Inc. a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, and NTT DOCOMO Inc., Japan’s largest mobile phone operator with over 90 million subscriptions, today announced a quantum optimization pilot that resulted in demonstrable mobile network performance improvements.
Hello, I’m Andrews King, the founder of Softonets, an end-to-end technology solutions provider. I am also a member of the UKTIN Core Networking Expert Working Group.
Worldwide spending on artificial intelligence (AI), including AI-enabled applications*, infrastructure, and related IT and business services, will more than double by 2028 when it is expected to reach $632 billion, according to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide.
Last week’s post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards announcement by the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shone a much needed spotlight on next-generation network security requirements, but while the NIST approach is one that has already attracted significant support from the likes of BT, IBM and Nokia, alternative approaches are also well advanced.
FRANC was the first intervention DSIT announced from the Open Networks Programme in 2021. A total of 14 projects were funded to support the goals of the Government’s 5G Supply Chain Diversification Strategy by helping to incentivise the industry to create new products and services to unlock the full potential of Open RAN.
These projects have enabled a wide range of organisations to focus on developing technical solutions such as: