1. DCMS 5G Testbeds & Trials Overview 5G Ruralfirst: Rural Coverage and Dynamic & Shared Spectrum Access Testbed and Trial
April 2018

2. What is 5G Rural First? Partnerships System Architecture
Agenda
What is 5G Rural First?
Partnerships
System Architecture
Implications and Asks

3. What is 5G RuralFirst ?
Review differing rural 5G challenges and inform economics for business models: communities, agriculture, broadcast, local industry.
Demonstrate spectrum sharing and deployment of disaggregated 5G lower cost radios & RAN (Orkney).
Radio broadcast over 5G (Orkney)
Renewable Energy/IoT/Security (Orkney)
Li-Fi in rural setting into 5G (Orkney)
Salmon farming/Safety/IoT – monitoring (Orkney)
Agri-tech: Automomous farm vehicles, Crop/Soil Condition Mapping, Augmented Reality Veterinary Information (Shropshire & Somerset)
Test & Connect locations to the Cisco 5G Cloud at DataVita data centre via 5G Network Slices (Glasgow).
Business model investigations
Orkney
Islands
DataVita
Harper
Adams
Somerset
Surrey
5GIC

4. Testbed Innovation, R&D and Research Partnerships
Industrial IoT
Broadcast Mode
Community & Infrastructure
5GIC
5G Cloud Infrastructure
5G Access Technology
Shared Spectrum
Rural Agri-Tech

5. System Architecture

6. Dynamic Spectrum Access
Technology….
Dynamic Spectrum Access
Mix of Radio Technologies (incl. pre-5G)
pre-5G 4G
5G NR
SDR/Custom-build
LiFi
LoRa
CBRS
Network Slicing
Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) Gateway

7. Implications & “Asks”
Ofcom & industry discussion on Dynamic Shared Spectrum.
Implications of Media Broadcast over 5G – the next steps.
‘Neutral host’ technologies – radio in the cloud.
New community and enterprise business models.
Network slicing for rural: agri-tech, tourism, community.
Software defined radio strategies for network deployment

8. Q & A Thank you!