PAWR Announces 5G Open RAN Testing with Mavenir at POWDER Testbed WASHINGTON – March 14, 2024 – The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office announces a collaboration between PAWR platform POWDER and industry innovator Mavenir to test a first-of-its-kind O-RAN 5G SA network deployment with millimeter Wave (mmWave) spectrum. The solution is powered by Mavenir’s open radio unit (O-RU), open distributed unit (O-DU), open centralized unit (O-CU), and 5G core. The team…
AERPAW is hiring! The team at North Carolina State University is actively recruiting candidates for a new AERPAW Platform Director position. While the research directors for the platform will remain heavily involved in development going forward, the platform will move its day-to-day operations into the Office of Information Technology (OIT) Communications Technologies unit. The new Director will work within OIT and will serve dual roles. This position will direct the AERPAW platform and oversee operations, development,…
AERPAW Proudly Announces Winners for the Find a Rover Challenge
Three winners are taking home top honors in the AERPAW Find a Rover (AFAR) challenge, having produced the most accurate localization results in an exercise to track the radio signal from an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). The University of North Texas Eagles Team had the closest estimations in live flight tests conducted at AERPAW’s Lake Wheeler Field Laboratory, while the New…
Ericsson and PAWR light up 5G network for rural agricultural research Ericsson-powered 5G standalone (SA) network will support precision agriculture applications and other research initiatives at ARA’s wireless living lab Sample research will include the use of connected robots to collect plant phenotyping data, livestock monitoring, and agriculture automation
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) in cooperation with the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program announced the launch of…
PAWR Program Unveils ARA Testbed for Rural Wireless and Applications Research WASHINGTON – September 6, 2023 – The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office announces the unveiling of ARA, a new testbed in Central Iowa dedicated to research on rural wireless systems and applications. As the fourth and final platform in the PAWR program, ARA combines both commercial and programmable network systems. The multi-modal platform is based on the Iowa State University (ISU)…
PAWR Platforms Earn OTIC Status for O-RAN ALLIANCE Testing and Certification POWDER, ARA, and Colosseum join COSMOS as official Open Testing and Integration Centers (OTICs) WASHINGTON – July 14, 2023 – The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office announces that multiple PAWR testbeds have gained O-RAN ALLIANCE approval as Open Testing and Integration Centers (OTICs). These include: POWDER in Salt Lake City, Utah; ARA in Ames, Iowa; and Colosseum, an…