Testing Facilities for End-to-End Test of Vertical Applications Enabled by 5G Networks: Eindhoven 5G Brainport Testbed

The key-performance indicators (KPIs) that will be delivered by 5G networks such as extremely low-latency, high capacity, robustness and highly flexible network are key enablers for applications such as autonomous driving, cooperative robotics, transport and processing of large volumes of video and images, to name but a few. This paper presents the ongoing build up and deployment of the Eindhoven based 5G-Brainport testbed towards an open environment for validation and test of end-to-end applications benefitting from the 5G KPIs.

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