Orange Announces the Opening of Nine Orange 5G Labs to Enable Economic Players to Bring 5G Uses to Life
February 03 2021 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
According to an Orange study conducted with GlobalWebIndex, 72%
of companies currently say they expect their operator to provide
support regarding 5G to test, experiment and develop ahead of time.
The Orange 5G Labs initiative meets this demand and aims to help
economic players to better understand the opportunities, value and
utility of 5G. There, they will be able to test their current
solutions and services and think about new uses while taking
advantage of an ecosystem to co-innovate and already start changing
their business model and processes.
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Orange is launching this initiative by
opening a real network of Orange 5G Lab sites in France and abroad
in 2021 (Credit: Orange)
“We believe that 5G will drive business competition and regional
development. This is why Orange is involved in a co-innovation
approach focused on 5G to create the uses of the future. Having a
local presence close to these players is a key part of the Orange
5G Labs initiative, to support the digital transformation of
economic players and to help everyone take advantage of 5G’s
potential,” said Michäel Trabbia, Chief Technology and Innovation
Officer at Orange.
Orange 5G Lab - sites close to local ecosystems
Orange is launching this initiative by opening a real network of
Orange 5G Lab sites in France and abroad in 2021. It will be
deployed in the regions to best meet the needs of local authorities
and companies - start-ups, SMEs, big companies - regardless of
their sector.
In France, seven sites will host all the companies and local
authorities, regardless of their sector. The Orange 5G Lab site in
Châtillon (Paris region) is opening today. The others will
gradually open in six other French towns: Lille,
Lyon-Charbonnières, Marseille, Paris-La Défense, Rennes and
Toulouse.
Certain sites will specialise in a specific field but will not
be devoted exclusively to this area. For example, the Lyon lab,
located at the Campus Région du Numérique at
Charbonnières-les-Bains, will be focused on Industry 4.0, and the
Cœur Défense site in the Customer Innovation Centre will be more
focused on Orange Business Services’ major clients.
The initiative will also be rolled out in European countries
where the Group has a presence during the first half of 2021. An
Orange 5G Lab will open in Bucharest in Romania in partnership with
the University Politehnica of Bucharest to foster the development
of commercial projects, research and innovation. In Belgium, the
lab will be located near the Orange Industry 4.0 campus in the Port
of Antwerp. In this Orange 5G Lab, different use cases that have
already been developed in collaboration with industrial partners in
the port will be demonstrated, such as the augmented worker or
critical communication systems. In addition, a 5G challenge for
start-ups and developers will start in Spain at the end of February
to develop new applications. The winners will be supported by the
Orange 5G Lab initiative, including access to experts and 5G
equipment in France.
Services and support provided to economic players
The services provided are based on:
- a programme to learn about 5G and the uses made possible
through demonstrations and activities. It is supplemented by a
website - 5glab.orange.com and a series of thematic and educational
webinars.
- the opportunity for the players involved to test their products
and services in a 5G environment ahead of their deployment or on
the commercial network, under real conditions. They will be able to
rely on 5G equipment of the future (augmented reality glasses,
virtual reality headsets, routers, 5G devices, 5G modules). In
addition to the 5G environment, Edge computing functionalities will
also be provided in some Orange 5G Labs to test services requiring
a shorter response time for instance.
The companies will be supported by Orange technical, network and
product experts and the entire Orange 5G Lab ecosystem providing
synergies and additional resources. In addition to the
‘bricks-and-mortar’ sites, virtual digital access will also be set
up to enable all relevant players to effectively collaborate
remotely.
Companies that are interested, regardless of whether they are
Orange customers or not, can talk to their preferred contact or
identify themselves on the 5glab.orange.com site.
The Orange 5G Lab initiative is a concrete illustration of the
5G communication campaign Orange has just launched: ‘The most
innovative thing about 5G is what we’ll do with it’.
About Orange
Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications carriers
with a turnover of €42 billion in 2019 and 143,000 employees as at
30 September 2020, of which 83,000 are in France. The Group has a
total customer base of 256 million customers worldwide at 30
September 2020, including 212 million mobile customers and 21
million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 26
countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and
telecommunication services to multinational companies, under the
brand Orange Business Services. In December 2019, the Group
presented its new "Engage 2025" strategic plan, which, guided by
social and environmental accountability, aims to reinvent its
operator model. While accelerating in growth areas and placing data
and AI at the heart of its innovation model, the Group will be an
attractive and responsible employer, adapted to emerging
professions.
Orange is listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New
York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN).
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