Co-operation agreement with BME budapest 5g
Vodafone Hungary has also signed a co-operation agreement with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), under which the company will make available 40 MHz of its own frequency spectrum to the university in the 3600 MHz band.
The frequency will be suitable for the operation of the Universityʼs indoor 5G network over the entire area of BME, as well as for supplying the open innovation environment and 5G Laboratory to be created under this initiative.
János Levedovszky, the vice-rector of Science and Innovation at the University of Technology commented, “A unique university infrastructure is being created in Hungary which gives a major boost to the researches of communication technologies, industrial data collection and data monitoring, 5G networks and also to its education. Since a functioning 5G network is the requirement of several research and development programs thanks to this improvement almost on every field of science the opportunities of BME will expand.”
The University of Technology plans to build an international standard 5G experimental system (5G Smart Campus Network), the first step of which is the newly signed 5G frequency agreement, as the existence of the frequency band is one of the most important conditions for the operation of 5G network. This will soon be followed by the 5G Application Development Laboratory (5G Lab) at BME.
Gergő J. Budai said, “For the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, which offers the best engineering education in Hungary, it is especially important that students have access to technical education that supplies them relevant, with up-to-date experience in the labor market. Vodafone wishes to contribute to this by bringing to the university 5G, the most up-to-date key technology available today. We hope that the BME pilot network will promote the education of 5G technology and the development and testing of various 5G-based innovations in Hungary, as well as the joint participation of BME and Vodafone in the European Unionʼs 5G-themed research and development programs.”
Charaf Hassan, Dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics said that 5G is not the technology of the future but of the present, which brings significant changes in every aspect of our life, among other things in the industry as well.
He added that the 5G test network will help BME to join the European Unionʼs Innovation Program as well as the 5G and 6G targeted researches and development programs planned as part of Horizon Europe from 2021. budapest 5g
BME collaborates with Nokia Hungary in the process of setting up an experimental 5G test network that provides the radio equipment for the university and also contributes to the operation of the network.
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