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Ireland’s National 5G Test Centre opens at
Maynooth University
M
aynooth University has opened
Ireland’s National 5G Test Centre. The
state-of-the-art facility called RadioSpace,
which represents an investment of €1.5
million, is the country’s first large-scale
facility for the research and testing of radio
and wireless technologies needed for 5G and
the future Internet of Things (IoT).
measurements to be made. This is essential for
the development of modern wireless devices.
RadioSpace connects industry and academic
researchers with the aim of addressing the
full range of challenges in developing new
technologies and products for the next
generation of wireless devices. RadioSpace
is designed to provide a full range of services
to developers of 4G mobile networks,
IoT-enabled products and future 5G and
mmWave devices.
RadioSpace will be open to large industry
and SMEs and start-ups, and will provide
a unique, large-scale, interference-free
facility for scientists and engineers from
industry and universities in Ireland and
internationally. It will be one of the first of its
kind in Europe.
The facility consists of a specially constructed
anechoic chamber that provides perfect
isolation for radio signals; nothing can
enter and nothing can leave. This, with the
advanced test equipment and specialist
engineers, allows for very sensitive
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Telefónica Spain boosts network performance
with Nokia Deepfield analytics
and video streaming services. In Spain specifically, regulator CNMC
reported three out of 10 households consume online content as of
2018, with approximately 5.9 million online video subscribers in the
country. In addition, although cloud applications and services make
up more than 60% of global network traffic today, according to
Deepfield’s analytics, providers have had very limited insight into
application traffic running on their networks or the impact network
performance has on end-user applications and subscriber experience
to date.
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okia has announced Telefónica Spain will use the Deepfield Cloud
Intelligence analytics solution to improve user experience and
troubleshoot content delivery in real time. Nokia Deepfield will equip
Telefónica Spain with previously unattainable visibility into application
and service traffic on its network. This provides vital, data-driven insight
and analytics into the capacity being used and enables automated
actions to significantly improve service assurance and performance.
Online video consumption continues to surge worldwide with
customers expecting the highest quality of experience for gaming
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Telefónica is responding to these challenges with an ambitious
automation strategy, relying on Nokia Deepfield software for its
automated cloud and network analytics for real-time, actionable
insights on network performance and quality of experience. Nokia
Deepfield provides Telefónica with an unrivalled view of each
network path and the aggregated traffic running to and through it
with Nokia’s unique Cloud Genome technology, which tracks more
than 50,000 popular cloud applications and over-the-top services.
The insights provided by Nokia Deepfield allow network engineers
to quickly adapt to changes in application demand and fluctuating
traffic patterns by supporting advanced IP network engineering and
assurance use cases with automation.
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