AMRC-led project to make 5G Open RAN accessible and affordable to manufacturers launched

Posted on 5 Mar 2024 by The Manufacturer
FoFoRAN is helping to innovate ways to build a resilient communications structure within the 5G telecoms supply chain. Picture is a human, robot and AI shared space enabled by 5G.
FoFoRAN is helping to innovate ways to build a resilient communications structure within the 5G telecoms supply chain. Picture is a human, robot and AI shared space enabled by 5G.

A new £4.7m project developing ways to make 5G Open RAN more accessible and fit-for-purpose for the manufacturing sector has been launched by an industrial consortium of expert partners.

The Factory of the Future Open RAN (FoFoRAN) project aims to explore ways manufacturers of all sizes could benefit from open radio access networks (Open RAN), a concept of mobile network architecture that provides the use of non-proprietary subcomponents from a variety of vendors. It enables different companies’ technology to work together, instead of using…

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