--- title: "Telecom: open | Nexus Observatory" description: "Open data, open source and methods for telecommunications and digital infrastructure: Spectrum occupancy and interference, Timing accuracy…" url: https://observatory.global/industries/telecom/open/ publisher: Nexus Observatory Inc. updated: 2026-11-02 --- [Nexus Observatory](https://observatory.global/) / [Telecom](https://observatory.global/industries/telecom/) / **Open** # Open for telecom. Open projects, open methods and open templates this community builds on, with the licence of every source carried through. [Plan a deployment](https://observatory.global/contact/deployment/) [Use cases](https://observatory.global/industries/telecom/use-cases/) [Open the explainer](https://observatory.global/industries/telecom/explainer/) Reference design, drawn to scale · drag to turn 1. Telecom · Open Towers that compute, sense and connect AI-RAN and edge compute at the tower, private 5G for enterprises, timing and spectrum monitoring, satellite backhaul and ground segment, and towers that host observing instruments as a second tenant. Needs: spectrum occupancy and interference, timing accuracy, site power and cooling, backhaul for remote sites and tower capacity for hosted instruments. 2. Open · Connectivity Open with Connectivity Band tables and sources, Country guides and Coverage methods: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds private Wireless as a Service, AI-RAN deployment and Spectrum route support, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made. 3. Open · Edge compute & AI Open with Edge compute & AI Class assumptions and Power and thermal methods: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds MEC deployment and Edge AI sites, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made. 4. Open · Field services Open with Field services Guides, Templates and Lifecycle: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds eight services and Government buyers, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made. Every reading and every change leaves a record that can be checked later. 5. Open · Hardware & power Open with Hardware & power Device classes with 3D models and Reference designs (licence pending): free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds kit supply, Bills of materials and deployment plans and OEM co-engineering, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made. 6. Open · Sensors & instruments Open with Sensors & instruments Metadata and quality rules and Open networks on the grid: free to use and build on. The enterprise layer adds sensing as a Service, Calibration programmes and Qualification, delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc. Open methods let anyone check how a product was made. 7. Trust Every node proves what it is A node joins only after its hardware root of trust answers an attestation challenge. Keys stay in secure hardware, software arrives signed, and every reading carries a signature, so its origin can be checked by anyone downstream without asking us. 8. Time and place Every reading carries when and where Readings are stamped against a disciplined clock, from satellite time or a PTP grandmaster, together with the station position and its siting record. When time or position is degraded, the record says so instead of hiding it, and every analyst downstream sees the same warning. 9. How it scales One base unit, repeated A programme starts with one base node and the instruments it reads. A station adds power and radio, a site adds a relay, a fleet repeats the proven site across many places, and a network federates fleets through edge and core. Capacity grows by adding units, never by replacing what works. 10. Updates Updates in rings, with rollback Software and configuration reach the fleet in rings: a canary site first, then a few, then all, each ring gated on health and data completeness. A failed gate stops the wave and returns each node to its last good release, without a site visit. 11. Operations Every node watched, every incident closed The operations console shows every node with its state, its plan and its evidence. Alerts arrive with their data and a runbook; acknowledging one opens a work order, and an incident closes only when the cause is recorded and the fix verified. 12. What you get AI-RAN and multi-access edge deployment RAN and AI workloads on shared accelerated compute at the cell site or edge, integrated with O-RAN interfaces. Delivered as professional services and managed service, for carriers, neutral hosts, large enterprises. Scale: Carrier-scale rollouts. Service levels are written as numbers you can measure on your own dashboard. [Talk to sales](https://observatory.global/contact/sales-enquiry/) 13. Next step Plan a telecom deployment Tell us the sites, the measurements and the people who will use them. We reply with a design and a scope for telecom. An engineer replies with a survey proposal and a scope, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need, at your pace. [Plan a deployment](https://observatory.global/contact/deployment/) [Open the Studio](https://observatory.global/studio/) [Read the stories](https://observatory.global/stories/) **01** Open projects ## What this community builds on. Open hardware, software and data projects, named as references. Each keeps its own licence and its own governance. - LibreMesh and LibreRouter - Open5GS - Magma - Meshtastic - The Things Network and ChirpStack - Althea - OpenAirInterface - OpenMetBuoy - OPC UA open stacks **02** Open methods and templates ## Every calculation, with a worked example. Observatory templates for this industry, each a starting design you can read, run and adapt on the open protocol. [Template Community cellular and sensingSmall cells with an open core, satellite backhaul and solar power, plus a sensing overlay, for a community that owns its network.](https://observatory.global/use-cases/community-cellular/) [Template Remote microgrid observatorySolar, storage and power-quality telemetry with a weather station and a small cell, for a community that is reducing diesel.](https://observatory.global/use-cases/remote-microgrid/) [Template Highway corridor coverage and safety sensingSmall cells with satellite backhaul along an unserved highway, with road-weather and camera nodes.](https://observatory.global/use-cases/highway-corridor/) [Template Deployable incident observatoryA trailer or vehicle with a cell on wheels, satellite backhaul, a mesh kit, a drone and weather and air-quality nodes for an incident base.](https://observatory.global/use-cases/deployable-incident/) [Template Northern civil observatoryWeather, geodetic and space-weather instruments with communications and power at a remote northern site, built for civil use that infrastructure programmes may share.](https://observatory.global/use-cases/northern-civil/) [Template Mine site private 5G and environmental monitoringA standalone 5G core, radios across the pit and edge compute for autonomy, with dust, vibration, slope and weather sensing for environmental records.](https://observatory.global/use-cases/mine-5g/) [Template Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weatherPrivate LTE on substations and poles for distribution automation, with weather nodes that inform public-safety power shutoff decisions.](https://observatory.global/use-cases/utility-grid-edge/) [Template Methane fenceline observatoryPoint sensors on the fenceline with optical gas imaging and quantification, feeding leak-detection reports.](https://observatory.global/use-cases/methane-fenceline/) [Template Stadium operations private 5G sliceA private 5G slice for venue operations beside the neutral-host network, with crowd, heat and air sensing.](https://observatory.global/use-cases/stadium-5g/) **03** Open data ## Networks on the grid, with their licences. The open observing networks on the grid, each shown with its source and licence, and the protocol that lets new ones join. **01** ### Open networks Instruments from open networks, on real relief.[Earth and maps →](https://observatory.global/earth/) **02** ### Sources and licences Every dataset with its source and the terms it is used under.[Data credits →](https://observatory.global/credits/) **03** ### The protocol The open specification any instrument or network can implement.[Read the protocol →](https://observatory.global/protocol/) ## Bring us the site. Survey, design, deployment and operation for telecom. The form names who receives your details. 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