The 5G Barcelona trial facility provides a testbed for 5G technologies across multiple sites in Barcelona, Spain. It features small cells, massive MIMO, SDN WiFi, and other RAN technologies connected through an optical metro network. The facility supports trials of use cases in media, smart cities, energy, automotive, eHealth and manufacturing. It offers connectivity both within Barcelona sites and to other international pilot sites through GEANT.

1. The 5G Barcelona trial facility
www.5GBarcelona.cat

2. RAN
Street Cabinets
Edge-DC
Edge-DC
Small Cells @ 3.5GHz
SDN Wi-Fi @ 5GHz
Massive MIMO @ 3.5GHz
Lamppost
I2CAT
Barcelona Field&LabTrial
c/Pere IV @ BCN
IMI Glories
Office
Metro-DC/CO
Optical Metro
Network
CTTC Lab-trial @ Castelldefels
Optical Core
transport Network
Core-DC
Metro-DC
Wireless-Mesh
Transport Network
(mmwave) with cloudlet
GNSS
Packet transport
Network
RAN
IoT
GW2
IoT
GW1
RAN
Area 1
Edge-DC
ONT
ONT
CH Office
RAN
OLT
Area 3
Area 2
Metro-DC/CO
WDM-PON
Metro-DC/CO
10 Gbps L2
Roaming
Exchange

3. Main features
• Business model: Hybrid public/private.
• Projects using your platform: H2020 / 5G PPP: mainly FLAME, 5G-City, 5GCar, METRO-HAUL, but also 5G-
TRANSFORMER,BlueSpace, 5GTANGO.
• Use cases: Media and Entertainment, Smart Cities and Buildings, Energy, Automotive & transport, eHealth
Manufacturing.
• Technologies available: Heterogeneous NW Access, Targeted Software Networks (SDN/NFV), Cloud and Edge
computing functions, IoT Enabler Functions, Localization Techniques, Satellite link access.
• Measurement/test/certification tools: Oscilloscopes, signal/spectrum/networks analysers. Software
modules, vDPIs, monitoring computing infrastructure for specific KPIs, etc.
• Connectivity: 5G Barcelona wireless sites and labs are connected through optical metro network.
Additionally 5GBarcelona offers international connectivity and federation with other pilot sites through a 10
Gbps circuit to GEANT, and a peering point for roaming through a Carrier House node. Compute and network
resources of 5GBarcelona are managed as an integrated resource pool, and made available through open
APIs to third parties.
• Operational support: Fault management, performance monitoring, trouble ticketing system.

4. Partners
www.5GBarcelona.cat