Recent Deliveries
5G-Victori
Media and Tourism mobile Augmented Reality in a smart city
(2019-2023) Zeetta Automate’s Software Defined Network (SDN) controller was deployed in three locations to configure and manage VLAN connections spanning the three switches in each location. A new northbound layer 2 interface enabled the project’s 5G-VIOS controller to request service updates to be automatically applied at each location.
Read more in section D3.2: 5G-VICTORI (5g-victori-project.eu)
BCP
Smart City community transformation using 5G
(2020-2023) Zeetta NetOS single-pane-of-glass view for the 5G standalone private network deployed in the community for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
Testimonial:
“Zeetta’s innovative single pane of glass solution is easy to use and hides the complexity of managing a 5G MPN. This helps the BCP council efficiently manage their community based 5G applications.”
Read more here: BCP Council
5G-ENCODE
Manufacturing in Industry 4.0 using private 5G standalone and LTE networks
(2020 – 2022) A £9 million collaborative project that delivered industrial private LTE/5G standalone (SA) network, test business cases and value propositions for 5G applications in manufacturing. DCMS partially funded the project as part of the 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme (5GTT). The project is one of the UK Government’s biggest investments in 5G for manufacturing to date.
5G-ENCODE brings together a Tier 1 operator, Telefonica UK, O2, leading industrial players including Siemens, Toshiba, Solvay, as well as disruptive technology SMEs including Mativision, Plataine, and the world-leading 5G network research groups from the University of Bristol and NCC as a high-value manufacturing industry representative.
Read more in https://www.5g-encode.com/
First Of A Kind (FOAK) at Ashton Gate Stadium
Open API for Software Defined Networking (SDN) using OpenFlow
(2018 – 2020) A large-scale demonstration of the capability and scalability of Zeetta’s technology to manage a complex network infrastructure in a vendor-agnostic way that reduces CAPEX and OPEX and provides improved business agility without loss of performance. NetOS® provided a single-pane-of-glass visibility and control of AGS’ complex network including the two populations of Wi-Fi systems, CCTV, IPTV displays and other IoT devices and sub-systems.
Zeetta’s NetOS® deployment in AGS delivered intelligent network automation in complex enterprise networks supporting multiple mission-critical and business-critical services running in areas with high crowd density and demand for digital connectivity.
As AGS’ chairman Martin Griffiths, put it: “Sports stadia across the globe struggle with connectivity and real-time evaluation of data. I believe we are just scratching the surface of what this NetOS platform can deliver.“
5G-Picture
Proof of concept orchestrating peak network load
(2017 – 2020) An EU funded project to research peak traffic load at public venues. Most venues cannot over-provision network and compute resources to handle peak loads such as those found during the occasional Mega-Event. Physical resource constraint exists at the edge (existing Wifi) where novel access technologies are required. 5GOS provides high-level orchestration of realistic stadium networks composed of wireless, transport and compute resources.
Read more here: https://www.5g-picture-project.eu/
5G-Metrohaul
Security video surveillance in public venues
(2017 – 2020) An EU funded program, with EUR 7.7m, part of Horizon 2020 to research the transport of high bandwidth video through both wireless and optical networks at a public venue.
The three-year Metro-Haul project developed and tested optical network technologies that integrated with and supported 5G wireless technology.
In particular, they created a network infrastructure that can support the increase in data traffic when 5G arrives in 2020. 5G is expected to form the basis for the expanding Internet of Things as well as smart cities, autonomous cars, and various other high-speed, low-latency applications of the near future. Zeetta were responsible for delivering the network architecture before performing optical network monitoring and KPI reporting for the project.
Read more here: https://metro-haul.eu/
Smart Tourism
Local wireless capability for the Bristol Harbour Festival
(2018 – 2020) In collaboration with the University of Bristol, Zeetta deployed Wi-Fi Access Points (WAP) to increase festival-goer, local, connectivity options. 4G and 5G network capabilities were demonstrated in a proof of concept.
Testimonial
“As part of the 5G Smart Tourism Extension Project Zeetta created a “Network Slice” for retail in Millenium Square, Bristol. This enabled real businesses to compare today’s 4G/LTE networks with 5G networks. Zeetta’s Deployable Enterprise Network solution, NetOS Rapide was used to provide a dense Wi-Fi network that provided slices for the public, retail and public safety.” Interview with Matt – General Manager 640 East
Replicate
Smart City portable SND for IoT
(2018 – 2019) REPLICATE – REnaissance of PLaces with Innovative Citizenship And TEchnologies – is a leading European Smart City project that aims to deploy energy efficiency, mobility and ICT solutions in city districts.
The €25m project is led by three European cities (called Smart City ‘Lighthouses’): San Sebastian in Spain, Florence in Italy and Bristol in England. Three ‘follower’ cities will be replicating interventions in their cities including Essen (Germany), Nilüfer (Turkey) and Lausanne (Switzerland) and several ‘observer’ cities, including Guangzhou (China) and Bogota (Colombia). The project has a consortium of 38 partners including Zeetta Networks.
In the REPLICATE project, Zeetta demonstrated a new paradigm for IoT deployments leveraging the network automation provided by NetOS®.
Using NetOS Rapide® as a reference design and demonstration platform the participating Smart Cities were able to provide integrated connectivity and manage IoT infrastructure in a flexible and cost-efficient way.
Zeetta’s NetOS® was used to discover, adopt and provision automatically the required services to a large population of IoT devices through the FIWARE platform, based on a set of rules, as soon as they are connected to the network.
The project resulted in time-to-operation for the IoT system and costs required to deploy, provision and maintain services to the IoT devices being dramatically reduced.
Read more here: https://replicate-project.eu/
Rural First
Network slicing in rural areas
(2018-2019) Network resource slicing on the 5GRuralFirst core infrastructure. Demonstrating how our “NetOS” slicing technology automated network slicing and resource optimization allowing network allocation and reconfiguration to be substantially automated, and in turn taking processes that currently might take hours and days, down to a few minutes. Slice classification took place on the Cisco ASR920 devices in the 5GRuralFirst core, to manage the traffic generated by the Parallel Wireless components of the Orkney islands. With slices created, they were maintained via a feedback loop from the network. Each network device will providde telemetry to the telemetry collection framework. This framework will be responsible for collecting and storing the statistics using a mixture of polling and push notifications from the devices themselves.
Read more here: https://www.5gruralfirst.org/
Bristol is Open (BiO)
Programmable networks for Smart City's
(2016 – 2018) Bristol is Open was a joint smart city project run by the University of Bristol and Bristol City Council which signed partnerships with Nokia and Zeetta Networks to build out its citywide, open programmable network.
NetOS product delivered to the ‘Bristol is Open’ (BiO) network, providing a multi-tenant, multi-technology software platform to enable what it terms experimentation-as-a-service.
Read more here: https://www.bristol.gov.uk/council-and-mayor/policies-plans-and-strategies/bristol-is-open
