Excerpt from Dayton Business Journal
Two major telecommunications companies — $25 billion international corporation Nokia and $448 million Ohio giant Altafiber — have joined forces with the Wright State University Foundation to construct a 5G test lab at Emergence Center One located at 3070 Presidential Drive in Fairborn.
Studio 5G aims to provide a hands-on environment to educate businesses about indoor and outdoor 4G and 5G technology, which enterprise organizations are increasingly using for their private networks to keep employees and devices connected in large buildings and open spaces. Private wireless 5G technology, like LTE, provides more coverage with greater reliability, deeper penetration with lower latency, and is more secure than typical Wi-Fi networks deployed today.
The 5G lab is equipped with training rooms, demonstration rooms, and private labs that companies can use to test and validate use cases that are specific to a problem that they are trying to solve for (i.e. connectivity, device operability, security, speed and latency).
“We are excited to support the Wright State University Foundation on this exciting project. The new 5G Test Lab will enable businesses to get a real understanding of how 5G can provide super-fast connectivity across a wide range of innovative use cases in both indoor and outdoor environments,” said Ed Alfonso, head of Americas at Nokia.
Emergence Center One, where Studio 5G is housed, is part of the Wright State University Foundation’s strategy to drive economic activity and growth in the Dayton region by connecting business with technology. Scott Rash, president and CEO of the Wright State University Foundation, said the foundation’s partnership with altafiber and Nokia around Studio 5G acts as a great example for why the foundation building was rebranded to Emergence Center One in 2020.
