5G ENSURE has received funding from the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 under grant agreement No 671562 | Duration November 2015 / October 2017
Submitted by s.parker on May 24, 2016
5G-ENSURE partner b<>com announces its key role as 5G test operator. b<>com’s 5G experimentation platform will be deployed this summer. The objective: to carry out certain tests on the future 5G network’s components and security in a telecom and IT environment. Innovation projects will be carried out by the IRT (Institute of Research and Technology) teams, but also by the IRT’s partners, in the context of collaborative projects.
Built on b<>com’s infrastructure, this test platform for cyber-security in telecom & IT environment permits the creation of a test environment dedicated to a project and isolated from other projects. Users can then design and run test attack-and-penetration scenarios, but also tests simulating equipment breakdowns or function failures, spread of signal storms.
Its main features are:
- Testing the components of communication networks above a cloud infrastructure potentially spread out over several nodes in Europe,
- Validating the security aspects of the SDN networks and of virtualized network functions at the core of the 5G architectures.
- Validate the architectures and configurations of network and security equipment prior to productisation phases.
- Setting up a complex network topology that combines physical and simulated equipment to verify scalability.
Michel Corriou, Networks and Security Director at b<>com, explains that “with this platform, we are moving upstream in the innovation cycle, as the first commercial 5G services are planned for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. We are building an experimental network based on our developments, those of our partners, and elements generated by opensource communities like OpenAirInterface.”
Download the full press release below.
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