PROJECT TITLE

H2020 5GPPP EVOLVED-5G: Experimentation and Validation Openness for Long-term evolution of VErtical inDustries in 5G era and
beyond

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Towards the materialization of the 5G performance gains at application and market level, key contributions are expected by the domain of design and development of Network Application (NetApp). In this context, EVOLVED-5G endorses the vision where the world of NetApps follows the paradigm of mobile applications hosted in a related marketplace.

Moreover, the EVOLVED-5G project will contribute towards Industry 4.0. Recognized as one of the major vertical industries by 5G-PPP (referring to the digital evolving of workspaces), Industry 4.0 brings innovative use cases, yet technologically challenging, and create a fertile environment for SME-driven entrepreneurship, where new use case-tailored functions (as NetApps) can be provided to compose a digitalized, secure, and automated generation of the industrial operations (mainly referring to functions for process and machine control as well as procedures for advanced product lifecycle management).

The industry-oriented EVOLVED-5G NetApps will be tested, validated, and certified in a vendor-agnostic experimentation platform, and progressively define the first set of NetApps that the EVOLVED-5G marketplace will host.

8BELLS ROLE

8BELLS participates in the project with its L7-aware Whitebox switch with SFC capabilities with scope to further upgraded towards the 5G with the respective NetAPP development, which will allow to the switching solution to integrate TSN-aware deterministic switching, allowing to the switch to better support industrial environments with NPN-5G deployments.