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2020-12-18Back

Alpha Networks collaborates with NCTU – First to join the private 5G network national team

Alpha Networks' private 5G network radio frequency solutions are integrated with NCTU's 5G core network (free5GC), using NCTU's Guangfu Campus as the demonstration ground to provide 5G vertical application demonstrations including smart healthcare, smart security, smart patrol, and smart exhibitions. Alpha Networks' radio unit (RU), distributed unit (DU), and centralized unit (CU) are combined with the 5G core network developed by Professor Chen Chih-Cheng from NCTU to build the network. The campus experimental private network was 100% developed in Taiwan including the R&D, design, and production of all the equipment used between the access end and the datacenter end, so the team aspires to become the forerunner of the private 5G network national team.

According to Alpha Networks General Manager Lin Yu-Chin, the company has accrued valuable experience in the field of domestic and foreign private 5G network experimentation. However, these collaborations were operated with commercial purposes in mind; in order to support the government's call for a private 5G network national team, Alpha Networks has partnered with NCTU for the sake of the country's industrial development. The purpose is to encourage more domestic manufacturers to join the initiative in a bid to catapult Taiwan's 5G industry onto the international stage. Although Alpha Networks already offers end-to-end private network solutions, the company is willing to work with more domestic manufacturers to consolidate everyone's strengths to replicate successful domestic private 5G network solutions and export them to support the nation's policies, as well as to help develop a more efficient new business model.

NCTU acting president Chen Hsin-Hung indicated that free5GC is the first 5G core network in the world developed using an open-source model that complies with international standards, meaning that it can be adopted by any 5G cell tower or smartphone developed according to the standards. Free5GC offers exceptional commercial value and serves as an outstanding 5G core network solution for designing customized and localized private 5G networks. Professor Chen Chih-Cheng commented that the team will continue to collaborate with domestic and overseas manufacturers based on the open-source software to create customized and localized private 5G networks for factories, hospitals, and transport hubs in Taiwan and abroad. By ending the monopolization of the communications industry by major international manufacturers, we can tap into new business opportunities for the domestic network communication manufacturers and foster a brand new 5G ecosystem.

Under the MOEA's "Make Giant Strides in 5G Development to Seize New Opportunities in Private Networks" campaign, Alpha Networks has targeted new applications for private 5G networks to provide the one-stop service in terms of communications technology, service, and applications, where customized services are applied to form advantages to realize the vision of "Made in Taiwan 5G Equipment" by establishing an industrial ecosystem in the private 5G network sector and seizing brand new opportunities.

 

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