Deutsche Telekom recently announced that it has put a campus network into operation on behalf of the BMW Group Leipzig plant.
This is the fourth campus network at a customer's site that Deutsche Telekom has set up in Europe. Technology partner Ericsson is on board as network supplier.
The new campus network consists of a private mobile communications network that is exclusively available to the BMW Group's plant. In the future, various applications in production will be controlled and monitored via this network.
Together with Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom is already working on the further development of its campus networks. The development includes a 5G dual-slice solution that can also integrate the industry spectrum. On the other hand, Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson are working on an offer for private 5G networks without connection to the public network. This will allow more innovative applications to be implemented for industry. These private networks will do completely without LTE and will operate purely over 5G. The technology is called 5G Standalone.
Ericsson and Telekom are currently working together to further develop the functionalities of campus solutions based on 5G standalone. Joint customer tests are already planned for this year.
