DEVELOPMENT OF APPLICATION MICROWAVE PHOTONIC-BASED CHARACTERISATION AND MONITORING SYSTEMS IN THE EMERGING MARKET OF 5G.CARACTER NETWORKS

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Valencia Province (NUTS ES523); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 351,617; EU co-financing EUR 175,808.5 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2016-03-09 to 2020-12-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): The objective of the CARÁCTER project is the development of a family of device characterisation systems and monitoring radio-fiber hybrid networks, capable of operating in the millimeter band, with advanced and cost competitive features that allow great versatility to meet the needs of new emerging applications. With regard to the market, the deployment and development of 5G technology in radio frequency bands such as millimeters and convergence in radio-fiber networks, is a great paradigm for designers and manufacturers of devices or operators that require analysis and monitoring equipment for this type of networks, since all the equipment that exists on the market for the diagnosis of access networks is designed for the monitoring of fixed networks or for radio networks in isolation, but not for hybrid radio-fiber networks, let alone to be able to operate at 60 GHz frequencies in the millimeter band. One of 5G’s main challenges focuses on harnessing the entire available radio frequency spectrum and using new radio frequency spectrum bands. Therefore, all bands, starting at 700 MHz and up to 60 GHz or even more, with and without license, are part of the equation, and that is the main research challenge facing the industry and the scientific community in the definition of 5G technology. In this context, Microwave Photonics has become a very potential discipline in the last decade focused on the development of new techniques for the generation, processing and detection of millimeter signals that are ideal and promising to meet the current demand in characterisation systems of components and radio-fiber systems as well as for the deployment of future 5G networks. The CARACTER project will allow the members of the consortium to equip themselves with the technological capacity to start a new business activity worldwide with a high added value that is estimated to have enormous growth potential. From the very beginning of its foundation, TELNET, a pioneer in the [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The CARÁCTER project, co-funded by the EU, aims to develop microwave photonic-based systems for characterising and monitoring 5G networks. It operates in Valencia Province, Spain, with a budget of EUR 351,617 from 2016 to 2020. Suggested technology pillar: sensing. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.