Labs

Where is the laboratory located?

The UPC manages an experimental platform at its Nord and Baix Llobregat (Castelldefels)
campuses.

The UPC offers the Campus Nord
o Campus Nord UPC, C/ Jordi Girona 31
08034, Barcelona

What is in the laboratory (technical details)?

• The UPC can provide the deployment of additional equipment on campuses (connectivity, electricity supply, spaces).
• Possibility of reproducing different environments (hotspots, interior deployment).
• IP and VLAN connectivity in the campuses over the UPC network.
• Radio access infrastructures.
  • Private LTE network for laboratory tests. Includes eNodeB, EPC, eMBMS gateway, and IMS server. LTE, LTE-A, LTE-M, and NB-IoT support.
  • The private network formed by four eNodeB LTE Rel.10 (B210 USRPs) and two eNodeB (battery-powered E312 USRPs) for laboratory/field testing via OAI (Open Air Interface) and SRS (Software Radio Systems). Includes eNodeB (RRH/BBU), EPC (server cluster that acts as a data center), and gateways to interconnect with the deployed IoT network.
  • Test and commercial UE terminals suitable for indoor (licensed band) and outdoor measuring and testing.
  • Massive Bluetooth Low Energy network (100 BLE devices) for laboratory and field testing. Gateways for access to the LTE network and to a WiFi or Ethernet network.
  • Possibility of installing radio equipment in drones that can act as RRH/UE.
  • Planning software tools (coverage, traffic, interference).
• Optical technology infrastructure (optical ring with WDM technology).
• Synchronous Ethernet Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) infrastructure for backhaul and
  fronthaul.
• Virtualization of the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) control plane.
• Datacenter infrastructure (data plane and controllers /resource orchestrators).
• Data monitoring and analysis infrastructure:
  • Wireless sensor nodes.
  • Data aggregation servers.
  • Data analysis and decision-making tools.
  • Drive Testing and mobile network measurement post-processing tools (SwissQual Qualipoc, TEMS Pocket Investigation).
  • Tools to measure radio signal fields (broadband antennas, Anritsu high-performance spectrum analyzer).
  • Rapidminer software tool for data mining, with classification, clustering, prediction, correlation, optimization and visualization functions for the data extracted.
• SDN controllers (OpenDayLight, ONOS) to manage resources of the optical infrastructure and data centers.
• VFN orchestrators (Open MANO).
• Bluetooth, 6LoWPAN applications.

What case studies can be tested there? 

• Applications requiring cellular radio access with transmission rates of over 100 Mb/s (settings with 20 MHz, 2×2 MIMO channels, and carrier aggregation).
• Applications and devices requiring cellular IoT access (NB-IoT and LTE-M).
• Latency measurements.
• Edge computing.
• Data generation to create content to be transmitted.
• Node discovery.
• A new generation of fronthaul and backhaul networks based on synchronous Ethernet: RAN Cloud with CPRI over TSN.
• Synchronization of the trunk and access networks through the virtualization of the PTP control layer.
• Tests to verify network optimization algorithms (SON).
• Real-time applications related to traffic monitoring, detection/tracking of people and vehicles, locating, monitoring of health parameters, driving aids, monitoring, and tracking of atmospheric parameters, water quality, agriculture, fairs and events, emergencies, etc.

Who can try it?

• Users or organizations interested in using a platform that integrates radio and optical technology, sensors, SDN controllers, network resource orchestrators, and data centers to perform communications tests for 5G services.
• Access to the infrastructure will be regulated by an agreement signed with the UPC in which the conditions for use are indicated.

How do you apply to perform a test?

Contact by e-mail to go over the steps to define the tests to be carried out.

Contact

Josep Vidal ([email protected])
Salvatore Spadaro ([email protected])

The Thinx 5GBarcelona is a laboratory that acts as a product accelerator, accepting and streamlining the transfer of knowledge of LTEM and NBIoT that will form part of 5G and that are currently the only technologies that accept case studies of 5G LPWA.

Where is the laboratory located?

Pier01, Palau de Mar Building
Plaça de Pau Vila, 1
Sector C, Segunda planta
08039 Barcelona

What is in the laboratory (technical details)? 
At The Thinx 5G Barcelona Lab you can test e2e solutions thanks to an infrastructure that covers RAN, CORE, and the capacity of reaching the internet. The laboratory offers the latest technology available, enabling companies to test their developments in the laboratory in advance, reducing the launch of their products into the market and placing them strategically in the market.

What case studies can be tested there?

• The same operations that can be carried out in a deployed network can be performed in the
  laboratory:
  • Network connection and data connection.
  • Network.
  • Sending and receiving traffic TCP and UDP (from and to).
  • The internet.
  • Using eDRX and PSM features.
  • Measuring energy consumption.
  • Measuring module delays.
  • Generating and testing AT command formulas and even Embedded code.
• What is more, being in the laboratory means that other tests can be carried out, such as:
  •  Using different network manufacturers, always from the same place.
  • Connecting to the network using a cable interface, avoiding interference.
  • Simulating different levels of coverage.
  • Using a Faraday cage to fully control the air radio connection.
  • Monitoring the tracks of your connection to the network in real-time.
  • Leaving your device in the laboratory for a while, so you can develop and debug your code remotely.

Who can try it? 

The Thinx |5G Barcelona laboratory is open to all companies.

How do you apply to perform a test?

Send an e-mail to [email protected] or via the link https://iot.telefonica.com/the-thinx.

Contact

The contact e-mail is [email protected].

The CTTC manages 5 testbeds: EXTREME, GESTALT, GEDOMIS, CASTLE PLATFORM AND ADRENALINE.

Where are the laboratories located?

Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia (PMT), B4 Building
Avenida Carl Friedrich Gauss 7
08860, Castelldefels

What is in the laboratory (technical details)?

• The EXTREME Testbed is a general-purpose platform on which to reproduce any arbitrary networking scenario. It integrates different environments for experimentation in
  network and service virtualization, based on SDN, NFV, and MEC. It includes a data center aimed at experimentation in cloud computing, the main components of which are: 16 servers with 40 virtual CPUs and 6 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, 1 switch-router, 2 management and control servers and wireless devices (802.11ad/ac/a/b/g and LTE/3G).
• Furthermore, the EXTREME Testbed includes an environment for experimentation in virtualization services and infrastructures in wireless environments and in the edge/fog. Its components are 16 nodes spread over 4 floors (four per floor), creating a hypercube to reproduce arbitrary topologies based on access, transport, and computing nodes. It also has an experiment management and automation framework and a control, orchestration, and management system for the distributed nodes based on SDN, NFV, and MEC. Each node is equipped with:
  • 3x Wireless miniPCIe 3×3 MIMO 802.11ac cards that operate on 2.4GHz and 5GHz
    bands.
  • 2x Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for control and management of the infrastructure and to be able to establish a wired SDN control channel.
  • The infrastructure also has 8 mmWave USB 3.0 IEEE 802.11ad links on the 60GHz band.
• GESTALT Testbed offers a group of geodetic-grade antennas, different types of radiofrequency front ends, several OEM and professional GNSS receivers, and a server with the capacity to run different instances of a GNSS receiver defined by software developed at the CTTC.
• GEDOMIS offers an operational environment to test classic cellular communication scenarios and specific vehicle communication-related scenarios focused on industrial use cases.
• CASTLE PLATFORM features Multi-user and multi-base schema simulations, interfering channels, MIMo links, and multi-user real-time transmission.
• ADRENALINE is an Optical transport network of more than 600Km, with edge and cloud computing resources and orchestration and management system based on SDN and NFV.

What case studies can be tested there? 

• The EXTREME Testbed allows for requests from vertical industries to deploy vertical services (e.g. automotive) and virtualized network services (vRouters, vEPC) to be managed, orchestrating network resources and computing resources and testing different case studies in a heterogeneous environment, as it integrates a data center with a Wireless extension to assess arbitrary network and cloud scenarios. It also has direct interconnection with ADRENALINE and GEDOMIS to create more complex transport and access networks, including aspects of multi-domain, end-to-end multi-technology, and full control of all layers of the protocol tower.
• GESTALT allows for fast prototyping and the implementation of concept tests on new architectures and algorithms in satellite navigation receivers, including the real-time generation of multi-system and multi-band GNSS products, and their integration into other systems.

Who can try it?

• Providers of virtual network functions and applications on the edge, service providers, and operators of physical and virtual infrastructure (traditional operators, virtual operators), vertical industries, network equipment manufacturers.

How do you apply to perform a test? 

• For EXTREME: send an e-mail to [email protected] with the following information:
  • Brief description of the experiment
  • Aim of the experiment
  • Scenario to be deployed (number of nodes, connectivity between nodes, technologies, bandwidth, etc.)
  • Measures to be taken
• For GESTALT: send a document to Dr. Carles Fernández-Prades (cttc-labs-:[email protected])
  • Describing the experiment to be performed
  • Indicating the time required to perform it

Contact

Send an e-mail to [email protected]

The UPC manages an experimental platform at its Nord and Baix Llobregat (Castelldefels) campuses.

Where is the laboratory located?

The UPC offers the Baix Llobregat campus for experimental deployments and testing.

Campus del Baix Llobregat (CBL) UPC
C/ Esteve Terrades 7
08860, Castelldefels

What is in the laboratory (technical details)?

• The UPC can provide the deployment of additional equipment on campuses (connectivity, electricity supply, spaces).
• Possibility of reproducing different environments (hotspots, interior deployment).
• IP and VLAN connectivity in the campuses over the UPC network.
• Radio access infrastructures:
  • Private LTE network for laboratory tests. Includes eNodeB, EPC, eMBMS gateway, and IMS server. LTE, LTE-A, LTE-M, and NB-IoT support.
  • The private network formed by four eNodeB LTE Rel.10 (B210 USRPs) and two eNodeB (battery-powered E312 USRPs) for laboratory/field testing via OAI (Open Air Interface) and SRS (Software Radio Systems). Includes eNodeB (RRH/BBU), EPC (server cluster that acts as a Data Center), and gateways to interconnect with the deployed IoT network.
  • Test and commercial UE terminals suitable for indoor (licensed band) and outdoor measuring and testing.
  • Massive Bluetooth Low Energy network (100 BLE devices) for laboratory and field testing. Gateways for access to the LTE network and to a WiFi or Ethernet network.
  • Possibility of installing radio equipment in drones that can act as RRH/UE.
  • Planning software tools (coverage, traffic, interference).
• Optical technology infrastructure (optical ring with WDM technology).
• Synchronous Ethernet Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) infrastructure for backhaul and fronthaul.
• Virtualization of the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) control plane.
• Data center infrastructure (data plane and controllers /resource orchestrators).
• Data monitoring and analysis infrastructure:
  • Wireless sensor nodes.
  • Data aggregation servers.
  • Data analysis and decision-making tools.
  • Drive Testing and mobile network measurement post-processing tools (SwissQual Qualipoc, TEMS Pocket Investigation).
  • Tools to measure radio signal fields (broadband antennas, Anritsu high-performance
    spectrum analyzer).
  • Rapidminer software tool for data mining, with classification, clustering, prediction, correlation, optimization and visualization functions for the data extracted.
• SDN controllers (OpenDayLight, ONOS) to manage resources of the optical infrastructure and data centers.
• VFN orchestrators (Open MANO).
• Bluetooth, 6LoWPAN applications.

What case studies can be tested there?

• Applications requiring cellular radio access with transmission rates of over 100 Mb/s (settings with 20 MHz, 2×2 MIMO channels and carrier aggregation).
• Applications and devices requiring cellular IoT access (NB-IoT and LTE-M).
• Latency measurements.
• Edge computing.
• Data generation to create content to be transmitted.
• Node discovery.
• A new generation of fronthaul and backhaul networks based on synchronous Ethernet: RAN Cloud with CPRI over TSN.
• Synchronization of the trunk and access networks through the virtualization of the PTP control layer.
• Tests to verify network optimization algorithms (SON).
• Real-time applications related to traffic monitoring, detection/tracking of people and vehicles, locating, monitoring of health parameters, driving aids, monitoring, and tracking of atmospheric parameters, water quality, agriculture, fairs and events, emergencies, etc.

Who can try it?

Users or organizations interested in using a platform that integrates radio and optical technology, sensors, SDN controllers, network resource orchestrators, and data centers to perform communications tests for 5G services.

Access to the infrastructure will be regulated by an agreement signed with the UPC in which the conditions for use are indicated.

How do you apply to perform a test? 
Contact by e-mail to go over the steps to define the tests to be carried out.

Contact

Josep Vidal ([email protected])
Salvatore Spadaro ([email protected])

Where is the laboratory located?

Barcelona Metropolitan Area

What is in the laboratory?

• 5G City Lab offers an operational environment for 5G use cases with a spectrum of 3.5 GHz throughout the Barcelona metropolitan area.

Where is the laboratory located?

Castelldefels, Barcelona

What is in the laboratory?

• Drone Lab is a 5G operating environment for testing disruptive solutions with drones.

Where is the laboratory located?

Plaza Espanya 
08004, Barcelona

What is in the laboratory?

•  5G operating lab for testing transport, mobility, and smart city solutions.

Where is the laboratory located?

District 22@, El Poblenou
Barcelona, 08018

What is in the laboratory?

• 5G City + Flame is an Edge computing experimental platform located in the 22@ district.

Where is the laboratory located?

Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia (PMT), Edifici B4.
Avenida Carl Friedrich Gauss 7
08860, Castelldefels

What is in the laboratory?

• Edge of the network experimental platform providing QoS to IoT applications with special requirements in latency, and guaranteeing its availability through the use of replicas.