NEC and Freshwave have been selected for Project NAVIGATE in the U.K. government’s Open Networks Ecosystem (ONE) competition, the former said in a release.
The ONE competition is part of the government’s £250 million ($265 million) 5G Telecoms Supply Chain Diversification Strategy for fostering R&D projects for telecoms, including the Future RAN Competition (FRANC), Future Open Networks Research Challenge, and entities such as the SmartRAN Open Network Interoperability Centre (SONIC) Labs, the UK Telecoms Innovation Network and the UK Telecoms Lab.
