wiredInUSA November 2019

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City zones for 5G testing

The Communications Commission (FCC) has named Salt Lake City and New York City as innovation zones to test new 5G services, saying they “will enableexperimental explorationof robust new wireless devices, communication techniques, networks, systems and services that will revolutionize the nation’s wireless ecosystem.” In New York City the focus will be on the COSMOS testbed, a cloud-enhanced open software defined mobile wireless testbed for city-scale deployment in West Harlem, run jointly by Rutgers University, Columbia University and New York University, in partnership with the City of New York. US Federal

data-driven research with massive MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) capabilities, to be run jointly by the University of Utah and Rice University, in partnership with Salt Lake City. FCCchairmanAjit Pai said: “Theseprojects will test new advanced technologies and prototype networks like those that can support 5G technologies. We’re also establishing a process to ensure new innovators can have access to this testing resource while protecting current, licensed users.” The FCC is working with the National Science Foundation (NSF), which partly funds the Platforms for AdvancedWireless Research program. experimental

The innovation zone in Salt Lake City will support a platform for open wireless

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