COMSovereign Holding Corp. and the University of North Texas announced agreement on the development and launch of a new 5G Edge-Centric research platform funded in part by a new grant from the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG). Under terms of the 5G research program, COMSovereign and UNT will develop an edge-centric hosted 5G infrastructure test platform for secure, private, low-cost, and delay–sensitive applications.

The project will feature a 5G wireless communication testbed infrastructure designed to support a wide range of research projects in mobility technologies including unmanned aerial vehicles ("UAVs"), autonomous ground vehicles, mobile edge computing, and public safety communications. The new platform will be utilized by researchers at UNT as well as partners from local universities and industry in the region. In support of the research program with UNT, COMSovereign is providing its standalone 5G wireless ORAN-FlexRAN network hardware which features a 3GPP standardized, 5G Core (5GCN), and 5G gNodeB base station, as well as its Saguna Mobile Edge Compute ("MEC") software technology.

UNT will provide onsite research staffing, engineering development resources and engage in public/private industry partnership development activities for the project.