Open RAN

Cambridge Tech Week 2025 is set to return from 15 – 19 September, with a focus on global collaboration and a bold ambition: to showcase Cambridge as the deep tech capital of Europe and a driving force behind some of the world’s most transformative technologies. 

Join the Open Future Networks Showcase discover more about innovation and telecoms diversification. The event will bring together insights from international stakeholders on the readiness of the Open RAN market and how the technology is progressing.  

Apply now to join our UK Tech Showcase @ London Tech Week 2025!

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is looking for the UK’s best and brightest tech companies to be a part of our UK Technology Showcase at London Tech Week 2025 (9th-13th June).

London Tech Week 2025 (9th – 12th June) is the UK’s largest and most influential tech event. As a global celebration of tech, it unites the most innovative thinkers and talent of tomorrow in a week-long festival with over 45,000 attendees at last year’s main event at Kensington Olympia.

The telecoms industry forms a vital part of the UK’s society and economy. It connects the country and provides the basic infrastructure on which we build all elements of our digital lives, both social and economic.

Overview

Join TelecomTV for the final panel discussion of our in-depth case study examining TELUS’s groundbreaking Open RAN deployment journey. Experts from TELUS, Wind River and Intel discuss the challenges, breakthroughs and lessons learned during this transformative deployment.

Wi-Fi 7 is here, and it promises to significantly boost the speed and stability of your wireless connections, with reliable low-latency performance and the ability to manage more connections. So if you design, apply or use Wi-Fi join the Radio Technology SIG for a distinguished lecture on the impact of Wi-Fi 7.

At Connected Places Catapult we connect people, places and businesses for a future of sustainable growth and prosperity.

Open RAN continues to be one of the most pivotal and debated topics in the telecoms industry, with its influence felt across the globe. But will it deliver on its promises? And can innovations like the RAN intelligent controller (RIC) drive meaningful transformation?

Read the latest UKTIN news, Industry news, Success stories and Governement updates in this winter edition.

UK INNOVATION IS AT AN EXCITING JUNCTURE
Ian Smith, Head of UKTIN

Connectivity has, and always will, underpin societal and economic growth. Fortunately, the UK telecoms sector is 
rife with innovation and potential.

ECORAN Project Review

Over the course of May and June 2024, Innovate UK, in collaboration with UKRI India and the Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT), delivered a Global Expert Mission, bringing together key government and R&D experts from the UK and India.

Innovation is the lifeblood of any sector: it’s what keeps us moving forward.
But to deliver on the demands of citizens and industry today, and ensure a rich and robust pipeline 
of future R&D and innovation, organisations in the telecoms sector need to be able to navigate 

Birmingham Tech Week is the UK’s largest regional tech festival and conference with over 7,500 people attending. Events will be taking place across the entire West Midlands covering a variety of important and innovative topics.

The UKTIN Academic Future Networks Strategy Working Group (which can be referred to as the Academic Strategic Working Group[1]) is one of the UKTIN groups which is tasked with developing a long-term strategy that will ensure world-leading academic research into future networks well into 2040.

Building the foundations for telecoms supply chain diversification 

The SONIC Labs Annual Report 2023/24 highlights the significant progress made since the programme’s inception in October 2020.

Connected World KSA focuses on enhancing digital and telecommunication infrastructure to improve global and regional connectivity and to meet the growing technological demands of a modern digital economy.

What:

Flex 5G is a Project delivered under the DSIT FRANC (Future RAN: Diversifying the 5G Supply Chain) Portfolio, which allocated up to £30 million of R&D funding to projects that support the goals of the government's 5G Supply Chain

This dissemination document highlights the closure of the CoMP-O-RAN Project outlining what was achieved and why. It summarises the experiences and findings gained during the project life cycle from development and prototyping phases through to testing in real environments.

The BEACON-5G team organised a workshop and end of project showcase event aimed at exhibiting some of the key technological innovations for Open RAN. BEACON-5G is among the winners of the £30 million UK government funding, allocated as part of the Future Open RAN Competition (FRANC), to support 5G diversification strategy.

The emergence of new technologies and solutions for telecom networks and interfaces requires a fresh approach to planning, procurement and deployment. Open RAN and the disaggregation of hardware and software have already had an impact on the supplier ecosystem.

O-RANOS looked at the development of x/r Apps, security model, and deployment of Apps to the RiC (Radio Interface controller) that would allow the sharing of network resources between a public and private networks.

Digital Catapult is delighted to invite you to an in person SONIC Labs Investor Seminar on the outlook on future networks, taking place on Tuesday 15 October from 13:00-17:00 at Digital Catapult’s office in central London.