Keysight Joins EU Project 5G-VINNI to Accelerate Acceptance of 5G Across Europe

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced that the company has been selected as the only test, measurement and network visibility company to play a key role in a new European (EU) project – 5G Verticals INNovation Infrastructure (5G-VINNI) – to accelerate the acceptance of 5G across Europe. The new project is comprised of 23 partners including major telecom operators, industry vendors and academia.

5G Verticals INNovation Infrastructure (5G-VINNI) is a pan-European research and innovation project financed by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme. 5G-VINNI facilitates uptake of 5G in Europe by providing an end-to-end facility that validates the performance of new 5G technologies, and explores solutions for vertical industries such as public safety, eHealth, shipping, transportation, media and entertainment and automotive.

Keysight will contribute its proven expertise and capabilities in network test and measurement to the project, which are essential in deploying 5G networks and services. The company’s solutions will be used in trials to deploy prototype technologies. The project will also benefit from Keysight’s contributions in the form of test case development that will run on the test networks.

“We are looking forward to contributing our 5G expertise and technology to another 5G project in support of 5G deployment across Europe,” said Daniel Thomasson, vice president of Keysight Laboratories, the central applied research laboratory of Keysight Technologies. “5G-VINNI’s selection of Keysight as a project member is testament to our long-standing close collaborations with 5G market leaders.”

The €20 million project will be coordinated by Telenor Group, the international telecom operator headquartered in Norway. The project, scheduled to run for three years, will leverage the latest 5G technologies, including results from previous 5G PPP phases, and employs advanced network virtualization, slicing, radio and core technologies. In addition, a rigorous automated testing campaign will be employed to validate 5G under various combinations of technologies and network loads.

“We are excited to join 5G-VINNI and contribute with Keysight’s scalable, software-based end-to-end 5G design test capabilities,” said Kailash Narayanan, vice president and general manager for Keysight’s Wireless Devices and Operators group. “Our ultimate goal is that the entire mobile ecosystem will realize the full potential of 5G technology across a wide range of applications and devices.”