Established Collaborations

Technology and Equipment Providers to 6G-SANDBOX Platform

Company Name: Vicinity Technologies Limited
Company Location and address: Vicinity Technologies Limited Regus Castlemead, Lower Castle Street, Bristol, BS1 3AG United Kingdom
Company Description: Vicinity is a UK-based company delivering 4G/5G wireless communications systems for public and private networks. Vicinity offers complete 5G infrastructure solutions for quick time to market. Our 5G software and hardware products have been deployed in many telecommunications networks such as mobile operator networks, mission critical networks, industrial internet of things networks and smart cities networks.
6G-SANDBOX Platform: Malaga platform
Description and use of the provided technology-equipment within the framework of 6G-SANDBOX project: Vicinity provides our 5G small cell for the 6G-SANDBOX project to perform research and trials for next generation wireless networks in the Malaga platform.

Company Name: Virginia Diodes, Inc.
Company Location and address: 979 2nd St. SE, Suite 309 Charlottesville, VA 22902 United States
Company Description: VDI manufactures state-of-the-art test and measurement equipment for mmWave and THz applications. These products include Vector Network Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer and Signal Generator Extension Modules that extend the capability of high performance microwave measurement tools to higher frequencies. VDI’s component products include detectors, mixers, frequency multipliers and custom systems for reliable operation at frequencies between 30 GHz and 3 THz. All VDI components include in-house fabricated GaAs Schottky diodes and microelectronic filter structures.
6G-SANDBOX Platform: All
Description and use of the provided technology-equipment within the framework of 6G-SANDBOX project: VDI is providing mmWave and THz test and measurement equipment for research on semiconductors, components, and systems for next generation communications and sensing systems in the 30 GHz and higher in frequency range.

Company Name: WAN-AI
Company Location and address: The Old Coach House, Hood Manor, Dartington, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6AB, United Kingdom
Company Description: WAN-AI is a UK-based Deep Tech Start-Up that is developing an AI-Powered 5G Evolution User Plane Function (UPF) to meet the stringent Service Level Objectives as proposed for Beyond 5G Networks. WAN-AI has partnered with MantisNet and Cumucore to develop and fully support the deployment of our cloud-native core network technology.
6G-SANDBOX Platform: Berlin – All
Description and use of the provided technology-equipment within the framework of 6G-SANDBOX project: WAN-AI is implementing Deep Neural Networks to configure QoS parameters in the UPF, including UPF scaling and dynamic network slicing functionality. 6G-SANDBOX experimentation will include evaluating AI training phase efficiency and AI decision phase performance for traffic management.

Company Name: LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Company Location and address: No. 392, Ruiguang Rd., Neihu District, Taipei City 114753, Taiwan, R.O.C
Company Description: LITEON Technology Corporation was established in 1975. As a pioneer of LED in Taiwan, it is the first electronics company listed on TAIEX. Over the past 50 years, LITEON has secured a strong position in the global market with its leading opto-electronic and power management technology. As it successfully ventures into power supply for computing, optoelectronics, auto electronics, 5G and AIoT in recent years, LITEON aspires to power its mid and long-term development with green data center, clean mobility, and efficient infrastructure as its growth engines.
6G-SANDBOX Platform: Malaga platform
Description and use of the provided technology-equipment within the framework of 6G-SANDBOX project: LITEON provides to 6G-SANDBOX the 5G split7.2 O-RU for the research cooperation on 6G AI Neural Receiver and digital twins research with SNS JU CENTRIC. Partners for this work are Keysight and NVIDIA. LITEON also provides the All-in-one small cell which is deployed in the Malaga platform to research and analyze network densification strategies.