Verizon expands international 5G ecosystem with new 5G Lab & Studio in London
February 10 2020 - 9:00AM
What you need to know:
- New facility offers first Verizon 5G-enabled development and
collaboration space outside the United States
- Showcases existing 5G use cases and experiences & offers
co-creation space for 5G-enabled application development
- 5G-enabled production studio brings next-generation content
experiences to Verizon Media customers
- European investment enables Verizon to more easily share 5G
leadership and expertise with companies based outside the U.S.
- Co-located Verizon Business & Media expertise offers
unique, holistic approach to both 5G infrastructure &
content
Verizon has opened a new 5G Lab and production studio in London
– the company’s first 5G-enabled facility outside the United States
– to support its international business and media customers. The
Lab, which is now open for business, is based at Verizon’s Mid City
Place office in central London, and offers a live Verizon
5G-enabled environment where organizations can develop and test 5G
applications and experiences.
Verizon’s 5G Labs are designed to offer technology innovators a
space to grow the 5G ecosystem. Start-ups, academics, companies and
organizations work with Verizon in the Labs to explore the
boundaries of 5G network technology, co-create new applications and
hardware, and rethink what’s possible in a 5G world. The potential
use cases include exploring how autonomous vehicles, smart
communities, virtual healthcare, smart manufacturing, the
industrial Internet of Things, immersive education, augmented and
virtual reality and responsive gaming can be enhanced with 5G's
super fast speeds, massive bandwidth and low latency.
Verizon’s London Lab enables the company to share its experience
and expertise in 5G-enabled application delivery with companies
based outside the U.S. Organizations visiting the Lab can see
existing 5G use cases and experiences in action, and can also work
with the Verizon team to develop 5G-enabled applications.
“Verizon has proven expertise in delivering 5G in the U.S.,”
said Tami Erwin, Group CEO, Verizon Business. “One of the best ways
of unleashing the true possibilities of 5G is getting it into the
hands of innovators and visionaries. Our London facility enables
our international customers to benefit from this expertise as they
look to deploy 5G-enabled applications and experiences.”
The London Lab showcases a selection of 5G-enabled use cases
across a number of different verticals, including advertising and
entertainment, education, manufacturing, medical, retail, utilities
and venues. These include a mobile command center, an augmented
shopping experience and smart retail shelving, intelligent asset
management and AR-enabled workspace reimagining.
In addition, Verizon will open a 5G-enabled production studio in
London in April 2020 to complement the 5G Lab facility. The studio
will offer a space where Verizon Media’s owned and operated brands,
as well as its partners and customers, can produce premium quality,
3D content including virtual and augmented reality experiences
using state-of-the-art facilities like volumetric capture, motion
capture and AR broadcast. It is also 5G-enabled, providing an
incubator space for innovative creative companies to test and learn
about how they can build content in the future that benefits from
its capabilities to transmit massive amounts of data almost
instantaneously.
Verizon Media’s RYOT studio has already demonstrated the power
of 5G-enabled experiences for advertisers and media at events such
as the United Nations General Assembly’s 2019 Climate Action
Summit, and the Star Wars – Rise of Skywalker Premiere.
Guru Gowrappan, CEO, Verizon Media said: “Our 5G Studio, powered
by RYOT’s platform, in Los Angeles was the world’s first 5G
production studio when it opened last year, and now we are opening
a new studio in London, offering all the same incredible
next-generation content production facilities and platform. The new
London studio represents our continued commitment to give our
consumers access to premium next-generation experiential content
across our global ecosystem of brands. As we move from a 2D world
into a world that includes 3D content, Verizon Media is providing
our publishers and advertisers access to a cutting-edge technology
platform, giving them the ability to experiment with 5G, and
providing the means to distribute them at scale.”
Verizon already operates 5G Labs in the United States in New
York, Washington D.C., Cambridge, MA, San Jose, CA and Los Angeles.
The company also opened a 5G First Responder Lab within its
Washington DC facility, and a 5G esports training facility within
its Los Angeles facility. Verizon also recently announced its
engagement, along with América Móvil, KT, Rogers, Telstra and
Vodafone, in the 5G Future Forum, which aims to accelerate the
delivery of 5G and mobile-edge computing-enabled solutions around
the world.
You can find out more about Verizon’s 5G leadership here and
Verizon 5G Labs here. RYOT studio’s work is profiled here.
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) was formed on
June 30, 2000 and is celebrating its 20th year as one of the
world’s leading providers of technology, communications,
information and entertainment products and services. Headquartered
in New York City and with a presence around the world, Verizon
generated revenues of $131.9 billion in
2019. The company offers voice,
data and video services and solutions on its award winning networks
and platforms, delivering on customers’ demand for
mobility, reliable network connectivity, security and
control.
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