For the deployment of current and future technologies, DI wishes to develop a stronger evidence base around the benefits of and barriers to their deployment, with a focus on the adoption of 5G and open network infrastructure to build the resilience of networks and support innovation. DI needs to develop models and techniques to understand efficient spectrum allocation and understand the issues surrounding the use of specific spectrum bands.
DI needs to better understand the trends around technological convergence, future demand for digital connectivity, regulation around access to the internet and emerging cloud services and their impact on security.
DI wishes to complement its understanding of current technology deployment with research into the work driving future technologies to develop and increase the UK’s future capabilities.
All of this needs to be underpinned by further research into the security and resilience of UK networks, addressing future developments and threats, gaining insight into the value of security interventions and barriers to investment in security.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
It is not widely known that the global economy relies on uninterrupted usage of a network of telecommunication cables on the seafloor. Yet these submarine cables carry ~99% of all inter-continental digital data traffic w...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE
The project specifically addresses the threat to submarine telecommunications cables, which is crucial for understanding the value of subsea communications cables to the UK economy.
This project aims to conduct a high quality feasibility study that will inform potential future collaborations and projects focused on international partnerships between JET Engineering System Solutions (JET-ESS; UK) and...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: JET ENGINEERING SYSTEM SOLUTIONS LTD
While the project focuses on 5G connectivity in complex sea basins, it partially addresses the question by exploring international collaborations and potential markets related to subsea communications.