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ConnectivityStandalone private 5G and O-RAN, AI-RAN on shared accelerated compute, LEO and GEO backhaul and 3GPP direct-to-device, LPWAN and mesh for sensors over kilometres, PTP timing inside the budget, and the spectrum route for each country.
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Private 5G, AI-RAN and orbit, on site
Connectivity delivers standalone private 5G and O-RAN, AI-RAN on shared accelerated compute, LEO and GEO backhaul with 3GPP direct-to-device, LPWAN and mesh for battery sensors, and timing inside the budget. Each part can be bought on its own or as one managed network, under your control or ours.
Die probleem
Public networks were not built for this site
Cranes, vehicles, sensors and crews need coverage where public networks are weak, latency they can plan around and control over who connects. Sites far from fibre need backhaul that still works when the road is cut. Coverage has to be designed for the site, not borrowed from a public map.
Key facts
- Interfaces
- O-RAN fronthaul · E2 · A1 · O1
- Radio
- 3GPP 5G NR standalone · LoRaWAN · LTE-M / NB-IoT
Components
- Street small-cell pole with an air-quality node
- Particulate monitoring station and sensor node
- LoRaWAN gateway, endpoint and soil probe
- Road weather information station (RWIS) on a highway shoulder
- Private-5G site
- “AI tower in a box”
- PTP grandmaster clock with GNSS antenna
- Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
Interfaces
- Radio
- LTE / 5G · Fibre · PoE
Where it works
- RAN and inference on the same accelerators
- Backhaul from orbit
In the story below
- The system, part by part
- Assembly
- Installation
- Deployment
- Connections
- Operation
- Failure and recovery
- Scale and federation
- What you get
Scenes · 19
Next steps
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioRequest a quoteTalk to salesDie probleem
Public networks were not built for this site
Cranes, vehicles, sensors and crews need coverage where public networks are weak, latency they can plan around and control over who connects. Sites far from fibre need backhaul that still works when the road is cut. Coverage has to be designed for the site, not borrowed from a public map.
What it does
Private 5G, AI-RAN and orbit, on site
Connectivity delivers standalone private 5G and O-RAN, AI-RAN on shared accelerated compute, LEO and GEO backhaul with 3GPP direct-to-device, LPWAN and mesh for battery sensors, and timing inside the budget. Each part can be bought on its own or as one managed network, under your control or ours.
See Private 5GOpen RAN
Open fronthaul, many suppliers
With O-RAN interfaces the radio units, distributed units and RAN intelligent controller can come from different suppliers and still be tested as one network, so the site is not locked to a single vendor. Interfaces are tested at every upgrade, so a new supplier can be brought in without rebuilding the network.
- Interfaces
- O-RAN fronthaul · E2 · A1 · O1
The system
One station, part by part
Before anything is installed, the station is laid out as its parts: instrument, logger and edge compute, secure element, GNSS timing, radio, power, enclosure, wiring, earthing, mast and foundation.
Assembly
Built and tested before it ships
Each part is fitted to the pole and the enclosure, wired through surge protection to one earth, powered and bench-tested until it signs its first reading.
Installation
Installed on site
The crew arrives with the tested kit: foundation, mast raised and guyed, instruments mounted, cables run in conduit, the enclosure fitted out and the site commissioned.
Deployment
Site after site, one design
The same station goes in at every site on the plan, each commissioned against the same checklist, until the field is covered.
Wiring
Signal, power and time, wired
Inside one site the instrument’s signal pair runs to the logger, solar charges the battery that feeds the load, GNSS time reaches the clock and the logger hands its records to the radio.
AI-RAN
RAN and inference on the same accelerators
AI-RAN runs radio processing and applications on shared accelerated compute at the edge, so spare capacity serves inference when traffic is low and the radio when it peaks. The same compute that runs the radio can host the analytics that use it, so one investment serves both.
See AI-RANConnections
Backhaul, time and power
The relay carries every site to the edge over a point-to-point link, the grandmaster’s time reaches every clock, and each site keeps its power through the night.
Timing
PTP to the telecom profile, GNSS with holdover
Radios need phase-aligned time. A grandmaster disciplined by GNSS distributes PTP under the ITU-T G.8275.1 profile, and holdover rides through outages within the timing budget. Timing quality is monitored at every radio, and a degraded clock is flagged before it disturbs the service.
See TimingSatellite and NTN
Backhaul from orbit
LEO and GEO terminals backhaul remote sites and back up terrestrial links; 3GPP non-terrestrial networks bring direct-to-device coverage where no mast can reach. Satellite links are monitored and switched like any other path, so the site keeps reporting whichever route is available.
See Satellite and NTNHoe dit werk
Your core, your SIMs, your site
Devices attach to radios on poles and towers; traffic is routed by a core that runs on site, so data that should stay local never leaves. Battery sensors join over LoRaWAN; the site reaches the outside world over fibre, microwave or satellite.
- Radio
- 3GPP 5G NR standalone · LoRaWAN · LTE-M / NB-IoT
Spectrum
Bands, licences and routes, by country
Each country has its own route to spectrum: shared, local or leased. We prepare the case from band tables and measured occupancy, and keep the licence conditions with the network record. The licence and its conditions are kept with the network record, so a renewal or an audit starts from the facts.
See SpectrumOperations
Coverage, capacity and interference, watched
The network is monitored per cell and per device class: coverage holes, congestion and interference are found from measurements, then fixed in the plan and verified on site. Every fix is checked against measurements after the change, so the network plan always matches what is really on air.
Bywerkings
Radio software, rolled out in rings
RAN and core software is staged across cells and sites with health checks on each ring, so a release that degrades the network stops before it spreads. Rollback is planned for every release, so a bad change is undone in minutes, not days, and the cause is recorded.
How it scales
Add cells, not networks
Coverage grows by adding small cells and sectors to the same core; capacity grows by adding spectrum and compute; new sites join as copies of a proven design. Many sites can share one core or keep their own. The same design rules apply at every scale, so the network never has to be re-engineered to grow.
What you get
Private Wireless as a Service
Band tables, country guides and coverage methods are open. Private Wireless as a Service, AI-RAN deployment and spectrum route support are contracted, from a single site to a multi-site network. Service levels are written per site and per service, and measured from the same data you can see.
Talk to salesNext step
Plan coverage on your terrain
Plan coverage on real terrain in the Field Deployment Studio, or send us the site and the devices you need to connect. We return a design with a coverage plot, a capacity estimate and the spectrum route your country allows.
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioRequest a quote
More presentations
See it from every side.
Each opens as a full-screen presentation: deeper pages on the same subject, explainers, stories, guided tours of the places, network scenes and the observatories that came before.
All presentationsIn depth
Use case Mine site private 5G and environmental monitoringUse case Methane fenceline observatoryUse case Hybrid air-quality observatoryUse case Low-cost stream gauge networkExplainers
Explainer · Environment and climate Environment and climate — SectorsMethane fencelines, acoustic biodiversity grids, flux towers, river sondes and smoke networks: an interactive explainer with the method behind every number.Explainer · Industrial IndustrialBlast vibration at the pit, fire weather at the grid edge, methane at the fenceline and tailings movement from GNSS.Stories
Story · Overview What changes by 2030Six shifts will reshape how the Earth is observed before the decade ends: networks that sense, models that forecast, foundation models that read imagery,…Story · Private 5G and AI-RAN Private 5G with the inference in the radioA private cellular network gives a site its own coverage, its own security and its own priorities. AI-RAN adds a second idea: the accelerators that run the…Story · End to end An observation grid, end to endAn observation is not a reading. It is a reading with a place, a time, a calibration and a path that anyone can follow back. An observing grid is the…Places and networks
Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Mountain valley siteA private 5G tower, an automatic weather station, a compact radar and a seismic vault on real alpine terrain, joined to an edge data centre that admits, times and publishes every…Guided tour · Guided 3D tour City blockSmall cells on street poles, air-quality nodes and heat sensors across four blocks, joined to an edge node that publishes open city data.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Offshore and oceanA moored met-ocean buoy and a profiling float report through a satellite pass overhead; the red link is the uplink.Network scene · IoT · Mesh IoT in the city: a street-light mesh and LoRaWANStreet-light controllers form a radio mesh that routes around a failed node to its border router, while meters and sensors report to a rooftop LoRaWAN gateway.Network scene · NTN · Satellite Satellite direct to device in a mountain valleyWhere the valley cell cannot reach, phones on the pass road connect straight to a low-orbit satellite, which relays through its feeder link to a gateway.Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · United States · 1961 World-Wide Standardized Seismograph NetworkIn the early 1960s the United States put identical seismographs, calibrated the same way, in more than a hundred places around the world and published the records on film for…Heritage observatory · United Kingdom · 1883 Ben Nevis ObservatoryFor twenty-one years, from 1883 to 1904, observers climbed Britain’s highest mountain to read thermometers every hour, day and night, in all weathers.Interactive tools
Interactive tool · Plan a site Field Deployment StudioTerrain, devices, coverage, viewshed, power and the best spot for a station, then a deployment request with the plan attached.01 · What this platform covers
Connectivity, area by area.
Choose an area for its systems, standards, the industries it serves and how we deliver it.
01Private 5G
Standalone NPN: your core, your SIMs, your site.02AI-RAN
RAN and inference on the same accelerators.03O-RAN
Open fronthaul and RIC, many suppliers.04Satellite and NTN
LEO, GEO and 3GPP direct-to-device.05LPWAN and mesh
Battery sensors over kilometres.06Timing
PTP to G.8275.1, GNSS with holdover.07Spectrum
Bands, licences and routes, by country.02 · Built on the open protocol
One protocol under every platform.
Marked: the functions this platform leans on hardest. The protocol itself is open, so what you build here runs anywhere the protocol runs.
01 JOIN
02 ADMIT
03 DESCRIBE
04 TIME
05 OBSERVE
06 QUALIFY
07 FEDERATE
08 ORCHESTRATE
03 · Open and enterprise
Open by default. Enterprise by contract.
The open layer lives on the main site, free to use and build on. Enterprise services are delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc.
Open, on the main site
- Band tables and sources
- Country guides
- Coverage methods
Enterprise, on this site
- Private Wireless as a Service
- AI-RAN deployment
- Spectrum route support
04 · Industries served
The industries that build on connectivity.
Each industry has its own site: its use cases, its community and the enterprise path, with this platform among the systems behind it.
Nywerheid Public safetyWarning time, gained at the sensor.Nywerheid GovernmentNational observing infrastructure, delivered as one programme.Nywerheid StedeThe city, measured block by block.Nywerheid Civil resilienceInfrastructure that reports before it fails.Nywerheid GemeenskappeConnectivity and observation the community owns.Nywerheid HumanitêrObservation where the need is greatest and the grid is thinnest.Nywerheid KlimaatThe atmosphere, observed to the standard science needs.Nywerheid WaterEvery catchment, gauged.Nywerheid NatuurHabitat, measured without disturbing it.Nywerheid OseaneFrom the coastline to the open ocean.Nywerheid LandbouFarm decisions on measured ground.Nywerheid EnergieThe grid edge, observed.Nywerheid TelecomTowers that compute, sense and connect.Nywerheid TransportCorridors that report their own conditions.Nywerheid InfrastruktuurAssets that report their own condition.Nywerheid MiningThe mine, measured from pit to tailings.Nywerheid NywerheidPlants and ports, sensed and connected.Nywerheid NavorsingInstruments for science, run like infrastructure.Nywerheid EducationEvery school, a working observatory.Nywerheid GesondheidExposure, measured where people live.Nywerheid GeleenthedeVenues that sense and connect at peak load.05 · Every platform
Every platform, one architecture.
One platform for each technical area of our work, on the same protocol, the same data and the same design.
Protocol & GridSoftwareHardware & powerSensors & instrumentsConnectivityEdge compute & AIEarth observation & GeoAIField servicesData & licensingSpace and satellite systemsPositioning, navigation and timingSecurity and trustDigital twins and simulationDesign and integrationTest and qualificationOperations centreTraining and enablementFrontier labsBring us the site.
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