Ericsson US R&D investments

Americas Market Labs

Americas Market Labs, located at the Ericsson Plano Headquarters and nearby a state-of-the-art data center, offers end to end test environments designed for Ericsson's internal teams, partners, and customers. These labs facilitate solution testing in setups that closely replicate real customer production networks, ensuring that US operators can optimize their network performance and reliability. Such environments are crucial for validating new technologies and services before deployment.

5G Cloud Software and Services Program Lab

This lab offers and end to end setup incorporating all Ericsson digital services elements for us with demonstrations and proof of concepts.

Ericsson Silicon Valley

Ericsson Silicon Valley is the 5G eco-system partner of choice. The site drives technology leadership beyond 5G by connecting to world class talent and taking a hands-on role in co-creating and facilitating a broad set of monetizable use-cases with leading tech companies, start-ups and universities. On the site, we have AI Innovation & Incubation, Ericsson Research, the Advanced Technology and Industry Group as well as R&D efforts from the Business Areas: Networks, Cloud Software & Services, Technologies & New Business

Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions Santa Clara

The team running this site is responsible for running the Alpha network for new and advanced solutions on security and networking. This site also caters to solutions on the NetCloud Private Cellular Network side by validating new features as well as do customer scenario testing for validated solutions.

Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions Boise

This site is responsible for testing all of the NetCloud Operating System (NCOS) releases on all the Cradlepoint products which includes cellular and WIFI capabilities. This site also conducts customer scenario testing as validated solutions as well as performance testing on the Cradlepoint products. 

University of Texas at Austin

6G@UT 

Ericsson is a leading industry partner in the University of Texas at Austin’s 6G@UT program, a flagship research initiative bringing together leading experts in wireless, networking, sensing, and machine learning. The collaboration focuses on addressing fundamental 6G challenges including bounded latency, spectral efficiency, and perceptually optimized XR streaming, with the goal of shaping next-generation standards and enabling seamless, immersive user experiences.

MIT

MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE)

How to power ubiqutious electronics - demonstrate a new generation of sensors that can be powered and controlled by beyond 6G systems.

New York University

NYU WIRELESS

NYU WIRELESS provides next-generation research to help the development of 6G and beyond technology. Current research focus is on next G wireless networks, channel measurements and modeling with a particular focus on terahertz communications and sensing.

Rutgers University

Rutgers Winlab

Research on wireless data networks, including mobile computing, high speed modem design, radio resource management, and network architectures and protocols.

Stanford University

Stanford System X

System-oriented research in sensing, computing and communication with embedded intelligence.

University of Colorado Boulder

Research on AR and VR applications. Current focus is on interactive real-time use with A/V and haptics.

UT Dallas

Corporate Partner

Ericsson’s cumulative financial investment of more than $3.6 million dollars goes toward capital projects, faculty chairs, fellowships, scholarships, research and several other funds.

Purdue University

Unique private 5G network at the Purdue University Airport, part of a three way 5G Open Innovation Platform together with the university and Saab. The airport network is testbed where companies can develop and/or test cellular connected solutions for airports.

Princeton University

NextG Initiative

This program fosters deep collaborations with industry leaders and policymakers in creating intelligent 6G networks of the future across wireless, transport networks and cloud systems, accelerating the transfer of knowledge created by academic into practice, maximizing its benefit to society.

AT&T 5G Innovation Studio

Ericsson was a founding partner with AT&T when the AT&T 5G Innovation Studio opened in 2021. This space is used to innovate and develop new offerings for customers and business and drive widespread adoption of 5G in a cost-effective way. AT&T, customers and industry collaborators ideate, test and validate new 5G-centric applications across a variety of industries.

Hitachi

Launched in June 2020, Hitachi America, Ltd uses a private 5G network provided by Ericsson in their Santa Clara, CA lab to develop industrial use cases and solutions. Hitachi focuses on enabling 5G capabilities for both its internal businesses and external customers across several industry sectors.

Slalom Element

Slalom opened the New York lab212 in 2021 to be an innovation hub for organizations across all industries to discover breakthroughs by harnessing the power of 5G working with Slalom’s strategy and innovation team. Ericsson provides the 5G network.

Verizon Technology & Product Development Labs

Verizon and Ericsson partner to showcase and test the latest technology available. Ericsson provides the latest radio releases and new solutions like Dual Mode Core which Verizon leverages for engagements with their customers and partners. In this collaboration there are two primary goals – first, enable the ecosystem to test and develop applications with the full 5G capabilities and second, contribute towards product releases such as THOR, iconic releases, network slicing and others.