AT&T and Texas A&M Partner on 5G Testbeds

AT&T and the Texas A&M University System’s RELLIS Campus will open private 5G testbeds this fall to public and private sector organizations. The addition of AT&T’s 5G network is expected to power a wide range of innovations benefiting defense, commercial enterprises and society at large.

Commercial customers will have a chance to access the testbeds to explore autonomous and connected vehicles, robotics, roadside safety and physical security, large-scale infrastructure, autonomous agriculture, Internet of Things and smart cities/campuses, among many other predicted use cases.

“This new 5G testbed will be one of the most advanced university based 5G testbeds in the country,” said Brad Hoover, chief information officer for The RELLIS Campus. “These testbeds are being set up to test new approaches to augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles or any number of use cases as well as those that have yet to be imagined.”

With the addition of 5G, the RELLIS Campus will be home to one of the large-scale testing and evaluation sites for five of the Department of Defense’s 11 modernization priorities: hypersonics, artificial intelligence, autonomy, cybersecurity and directed energy.

Texas A&M System state agencies – Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Texas Division of Emergency Management and Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service will be the first organizations to use the testbeds.