THE LARGE EUROPEAN TELECOMS PRESENT THEIR ADVANCES AT THE 5G FORUM IN SEVILLE, THE MAIN MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND SPECIFIC 5G EVENT IN SPAIN

The French multinationals Orange, Capgemini, TOTEM and Ateme, the Swedish Ericsson, the Finnish Nokia, the German Rohde & Schwarz and Dekra, the British Vodafone and Spirent, and the Spanish Telefónica, Cellnex, Hispasat, Televés, Axión and Netmetrix, in addition to the European Commission, will present their novelties at the 5G Forum 2022 in Seville, the most important multidisciplinary and specific event on 5G in Spain, which is always held as a summary and two months after the MWC in Barcelona.

The 5G Forum 2022 in Seville, considered a very exclusive “boutique” event, where the world’s leading multinationals based in Spain present their advances, is held from May 9 to 13 in a hybrid format (face-to-face and virtual) at FIBES, the Palacio de Congresos of the Andalusian capital, where it arrives in its fifth edition after celebrating its first two editions in Malaga and the next two virtually.

In addition to the main European telcos, the 5G Forum in Seville, which this year has had to extend its agenda to five days due to the great demand from projects and companies that have wanted to participate in this event, is a meeting place that also brings together from major European and Spanish multinationals, to Chinese (Huawei, ZTE), Taiwanese (Advantech) and Japanese (Toshibai, JVC) multinationals, which join the large landing of United States multinationals such as Qualcomm, Mavenir, American Tower, Viavi Solutions, Keysight Technologies, Cisco and Tesla.

Large European-Spanish multinationals

In this fifth edition of the 5G Forum there is a large representation of top-tier Spanish companies. The best example of this is Telefónica, the most important telecom in Europe and the fifth in the world.

Telefónica brings the Robot Spot Xplorer dog to the opening day of Fibes, on May 9. A robot dog designed for surveillance and first aid. Go up and down stairs quickly, dodge obstacles and execute learned routes. This robot, inspired by the biomechanics of quadrupedal animals, has 360 vision that allows it to record from different angles. It has a thermal imager, it can see in the dark and recreate 3D graphics from the images that capture the place.

Juan Cambeiro, brand new head of 5G Innovation at Telefónica, will tell where Spain is in relation to 5G in the rest of Europe and the World. In addition, Telefónica will present, together with the UMA, the Evolved 5G project. An opening for experimentation and validation for the long-term evolution of vertical industries in the 5G era and beyond. David Artuño, from the Telefónica Innovation Team, Almudena Díaz, Researcher of the Evolved 5G project at UMA, and Bruno García, main developer of the Evolve 5G group, will participate in this panel.

Cellnex Telecom, the leading European Spanish company in independent communications infrastructure with 128,000 sites in Austria, Denmark, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland, will also be at the 5G Forum. Raül González, Senior Product Manager (Collaborative Projects) at Cellnex, will speak about Connected Mobility and the Cellnex Mobility Lab.

The Galician Televes, with subsidiaries in Portugal, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, Russia, the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates, will also attend the 5G Forum in Seville with José Luis Fernández Carnero, General Director of Strategy, to share his vision on television broadcasting and other services in 5G.

Also, Hispasat, a Spanish company that operates communications satellites that offers coverage in America, Europe and North Africa, will be present at the 5G Forum. José Luis Serrano, Manager of Innovation and Product Strategy, will speak about the value that the satellite brings to the deployment, coverage and development of 5G, especially in rural areas.

Gamma Solutions, based in Extremadura, will tell us through Carmen Barrantes, Program Manager of Innovation & 5G, the Cáceres 5G Project, its use cases and its applications in the field of health.

On the other hand, Netmetrix, specialists in telecommunications, testing and cybersecurity, will star in a panel with the British company Spirent Communications. Pablo Álvarez, Managing Director of Netmetrix, and Stephen Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent Communications, will talk about the incorporation of the Cloud world, a disaggregation of the core, the diversity of equipment providers and network functions,… what has been done that the way in which the operation, compatibility, interoperability and functionality of the different network elements was validated and verified is undergoing a radical change.

The big French companies at the 5G Forum

French multinationals with interests in Spain will also be present at the 5G Forum in Seville. But none like Orange, whose merger with MásMóvil is one of the big news in the world of telecommunications in 2022.

Angélica Sánchez, Marketing Director of Orange, the situation and use of 5G carried out by Orange in the city of Seville and its democratization of 5G. The ambitious project carried out in the Andalusian capital has included the sale of 5G terminals at a reduced price to evaluate the customer experience. A highly positive experience that has also made it possible to decongest part of the 4G network at a time when it could be in high demand by Orange customers in Seville.

On the opening day of Fibes, Orange will surprise with various demonstrations based on the 5G world. One of the live exhibits will be remote inspection and maintenance with robots. A project managed by Robotnik in collaboration with the French operator. Another use case that Orange will expose will be how to provide remote technical support service through 5G.

In addition, Orange will be present on the fourth day, with a panel that will discuss the importance of private 5G networks for companies. Participating in this panel will be Enrique García Martínez, Ericsson Sales Director for Orange, Javier Olveira, Orange B2B Presales Engineering Director and Abel Carbonell, Head of Electronics, ADAS and Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV), Idiada.

The consulting firm Capgemini Engineering, which will have a space at Fibes to demonstrate to its clients, will star in a joint session with some of its best clients such as Repsol, Elewit and Vodafone Business to talk about Industrialization and scalability in 5G use cases . Participating in this panel will be Luis Manuel Díaz de Terán, Vice President, Division Director of Capgemini Engineering, Alberto del Sol, Marketing & Innovation Director at Vodafone Business, José Antonio Hernández, Repsol’s Head of Digitization and Information Technology Resources and Agenda Management, and Javier Martín, 5G Tech Manager at Elewit.

ATEME, a French company specialized in compression and decompression solutions, will also show visitors its latest advances related to 5G technology. And Mickael Raulet, CTO of ATEME, will say that recently, the cell phone renewal cycle has increased to about three years. However, the renewal of mobile infrastructure is proceeding faster than traditional delivery by air.

TOTEM, with Andrés Posada, Director of Marketing and Sales as speaker, will talk about the challenges of responsible digitization with society, which involves the definitive implementation of 5G in the productive fabric. The TowerCos play an essential role in accelerating the process and must propose proposals that help in this direction, facing a permanent transformation in their solutions, the challenge of energy and the reduction of visual impact, while ensuring the best quality from service.

The Nordic companies Nokia and Ericsson, also at the 5G Forum

The Finnish multinational Nokia will bring to the 5G Forum 2022 in Seville three experiences called Volcán, El Búho and Amatista.

Volcán is a gamified demonstration of the execution on the 5G network (“offloading”) of artificial intelligence applications applied to extended reality. Users of the demo will have to walk on a dangerous tile path on top of an erupting volcano, controlling where they are stepping, thanks to the fact that they can see their own body in the virtual experience.

El Búho is a demonstration on immersive telepresence, which will allow the participants in the demonstration to feel teleported to another place (in this case nearby) and interact with the people present there. Amethyst is an immersive music app that showcases an application of 5G networks and immersive technology for palliative therapy of neurodegenerative diseases.

The application presented by the Finnish Nokia is a demonstration in an environment related to the very current theme of the Metaverse: the objective is to introduce the user’s real body into a virtual reality experience, to make the experience much more realistic. its environment in an egocentric way and an artificial intelligence algorithm is used to separate the body from the rest of the physical environment, and thus be able to mix it with the virtual application.

In addition, Diego González, Researcher at Nokia – XR Lab, will talk to us about the Metaverse and the Realverse.

For its part, the Swedish multinational Ericsson will be present at the 5G Forum 2022 with Somaya El Marrakchi, Head of Networks Iberia, who will speak about the urgency of the moment with some market facts. Why and how will 5G be critical for growth and sustainability?

German companies at the 5G Forum

Rohde & Schwarz, a German international electronics group that specializes in the fields of electronic test equipment, transmission and media, cybersecurity, radio monitoring and radiolocation and radio communication based in Germany, will also be attending the 5GForum this year, in which it has participated since its inception. first edition, in 2018.

David Gonzalo, Sales Manager T&M Rohde & Schwarz Spain, and Germán Martín, Application Engineer Rohde & Schwarz Spain, will conduct a Webinar to bring us closer to 5G Release 15, which provides a solid foundation for improvements in future releases by defining a high-performance interface and a flexible network architecture.

Dekra, a company based in Berlin and with world-class facilities in Malaga, is attending the 5G Forum this year with Francisco Mazo, Manager Network Services at Dekra. Mazo will explain the changes that are taking place at Dekra, which is now becoming a service company, beyond the world of the connected car.

And also the European Commission

The European Commission will also be present at the 5G Forum. The German Peter Stuckmann, who heads the Unit for Future Connectivity Systems of the European Commission, will be in charge of presenting to the participants the recently created Intelligent Networks and Services Joint Undertaking and its two strategic pillars: 6G research and innovation and 5G deployment actions financed by European or national funding programmes.

The public-private budget already committed to this community company is 2,000 million euros and establishes the necessary financial planning security to proceed with an ambitious R&D roadmap for 6G technology.

The 5G Forum is promoted by Sevilla City Office and Fibes. And it also has the support of Telefónica, Orange, American Tower, Viavi Solutions, Ericsson, Capgemini Engineering, Qualcomm, Mavenir, Rohde & Schwarz, Keysight Technologies, Netmetrix-Spirent, Cisco, Huawei, ZTE, Malaga City Council, Content Center Digitales, Fycma, National 5G Observatory, Cellnex, Advantech, Ateme, TOTEM, Dekra, Televes, Hispasat, Nokia, JVC, Toshiba, Axión, Impulsa Vision RTVE, OFG, Evolved 5G and the Ministry of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities of the Junta de Andalucía.