Vodafone Business is joining forces with NYU WIRELESS to explore how advances in spectrum, security and AI can help make future networks more resilient and dependable.
- Vodafone Business, the enterprise arm of VodafoneThree, joins NYU WIRELESS, the research centre at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, as an industrial affiliate.
- The organisations will collaborate on research and produce a series of white papers exploring topics such as spectrum, UK sovereignty, and the future of resilient communications.
- The partnership will enable greater collaboration, bringing together academia, industry, technical experts and government.
From making payments and contacting emergency services to keeping businesses and critical infrastructure connected, mobile networks underpin more of everyday life than ever before.
As reliance on connectivity grows, networks need to keep performing when conditions are at their toughest, whether faced with severe weather, cable cuts, deliberate jamming or cyberattacks.
That challenge is at the heart of a new partnership between Vodafone Business and NYU WIRELESS, the wireless research centre at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
The collaboration will combine our real-world mobile network experience with NYU WIRELESS’ expertise across wireless communications, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
Taking network resilience from research to the real world
As part of the partnership, Vodafone Business and NYU WIRELESS will collaborate on research into the challenges facing current and future networks.
The two organisations will also co-author a series of white papers on topics including spectrum, UK sovereignty, and the future of resilient communications, exploring how industry, academia and policymakers can work together to strengthen networks as society becomes increasingly reliant on digital connectivity.
Telecoms networks are a national security asset, underpinning our economy, critical national infrastructure, public services and defence. Their resilience is fundamental to the UK’s security and prosperity. Together with NYU WIRELESS, we’re combining world-class research with VodafoneThree’s operational experience to tackle the toughest connectivity challenges and turn new ideas into practical solutions.
Nick Gliddon, Business Director, VodafoneThree
The partnership comes as VodafoneThree invests £11 billion to build the UK’s best network, helping meet the increasing demands being placed on connectivity.
Connecting UK expertise with global research
NYU London, the university’s academic centre in the UK, will act as the partnership’s UK home. It will host events and programmes bringing together Vodafone Business, NYU researchers and leaders from government, industry and academia, as well as supporting joint research as the partnership develops.
NYU WIRELESS helped lay the groundwork for 5G. The next challenge is to keep networks running robustly and securely, even when something goes wrong. With NYU London as a base in the UK, we can work with VodafoneThree on both sides of the Atlantic, test innovative ideas against real conditions, and get them into use faster.
Juan de Pablo, Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology, NYU, and Executive Dean, NYU Tandon
Vodafone Business joins NYU WIRELESS’ existing group of industrial affiliates, which includes Apple, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia and Qualcomm.
Wireless research usually gets tested in simulations and labs. Working with an operator that runs a national network shows us which ideas hold up under real conditions, from severe weather to deliberate jamming, and points us toward the problems that matter most to the people who depend on these networks.
Sundeep Rangan, Director, NYU WIRELESS, and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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