The Korea Radio Promotion Affiliation (Korea, hereafter RAPA) and Anritsu Company (Japan) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on February 22, 2024, at Anritsu Headquarters defining their mutual cooperation on Past 5G (B5G) and sixth Era Cellular Communication Programs (6G), which would be the subsequent generations of communication requirements.

By means of this settlement, RAPA and Anritsu plan to cooperate in a number of fields to help the event of those applied sciences, resembling configuring a check atmosphere able to validating the candidate frequency bands for B5G/6G, particularly the FR3 (7 GHz to 24 GHz) and the sub-THz band (100 GHz and above), in addition to the technical cooperation from proof of idea (PoC) section.

Beginning this yr, RAPA plans to determine the “Anritsu B5G/6G Take a look at Lab” at its Music-do IoT Technical Assist Heart in Incheon the place it can construct a check infrastructure and regularly improve the put in gear. This initiative will create an atmosphere in South Korea the place the verification of 6G cellular communication applied sciences could be performed effectively utilizing Anritsu’s MT8000A 5G check gear prolonged to 6G functionality.

As well as, customers of the Anritsu B5G/6G Take a look at Lab, together with B5G/6G antenna and module producers, will have the ability to confirm the idea verification from the section of growing the essential know-how within the B5G/6G discipline. With the current launch of the 6G know-how improvement challenge in Korea, it can even be attainable to confirm the outcomes of associated authorities R&D tasks.

Music Jung-su, Vice President of RAPA acknowledged, “This settlement will function a possibility for RAPA and Anritsu to strengthen their management within the B5G/6G discipline. Primarily based on RAPA’s verification infrastructure, we anticipate to be on the forefront of activating the home 6G {industry} and advancing cellular communication applied sciences in Korea by offering verification environments and conducting improvement verification within the B5G/6G discipline.”

Yu Hyun-kil, President of Anritsu Company, Ltd., Korea, expressed, “We stay up for contributing to the formation of an industry-academia-laboratory ecosystem for the B5G/6G fields by offering new verification environments and contributing to the event verification atmosphere as we transfer past 5G. Anritsu goals to exhibit progress as a specialist resolution supplier within the discipline of cellular communications, primarily based on our ever-evolving base station simulator applied sciences.”

Takeshi Shima, Director, Senior Vice President, Take a look at & Measurement Firm President of Anritsu Company, acknowledged, “Anritsu is engaged in basic analysis within the B5G/6G discipline and is assured that this settlement shall be an essential step within the improvement of the B5G/6G {industry}. Anritsu, in collaboration with its industry-leading companions, goals to turn out to be a extremely dependable check resolution supplier within the discipline of “Subsequent Era Communications”, considered one of Korea’s nationwide strategic applied sciences, and can contribute to the revitalization of the {industry}.”