Smart Internet Lab
INNOVATIONS
NEW IN 2024
The University of Bristol is launching a new programme to address the demand for R&D services from corporates, ventures and government organisations across the Future Telecoms supply chain.
Smart Internet Lab for industry commercial and technical challenges
Industry Challenge Groups
In 2024, the University of Bristol will bring together partners across the supply chain with shared sector-based challenges to fund industry-focused applied R&D solutions.
Research Projects
Specialist engineering talent and world-class experimental lab facilities.
Specialist Test Facilities
Access to Testbed Networks and Nomadic node ‘5G in a box' supporting technical capacity to develop innovative products, applications and services.
End-to-end network design and optimisation
About Us
The Smart Internet Lab brings together more than 200 multi-disciplinary experts across optical, wireless, IoT and cloud technologies enable us to bring together end-to-end network design and optimisation and impact regional, national and global ICT innovations.
Our Labs
Our state-of-the art Smart Internet Lab facilities are uniquely able to support research and innovation ranging from devices to applications across multiple technologies, to leverage benefits from hardware/software co-design and perform experimentation.
Our feature-rich experimental facilities offer: Network experimentation, Wireless research, Photonic fabrication and Research test-beds at scale including urban, national and international.
Cutting-Edge Large Scale Urban 5G Test Network for Digital Innovation
Built with Smart Internet Lab researchers expertise in convergence of fibre infrastructure and 5G wireless access.
Dynamic end-to-end slicing and orchestration over heterogeneous wired and wireless networks
Programmable edge aggregation and mobile edge computing
5G in a Box
An intelligent box for convergence of all network technologies and connected devices
Virtualising high-performance network functions at the edge
Re-purposing the network at the edge for delay sensitive and computing intensive applications
Future 6G
networks
Smart Internet lab’s research team aims to demonstrate the latest 6G enabling technologies for communications. The test network is undergoing a strategic technology refresh from 5G to the 6G narrative to drive the communication systems of the future.
Our future network research focuses on a human-centric model, bridging the physical and the digital worlds through a digital representation of the physical world around us.
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Smart Internet Lab INNOVATIONS
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