Ribbon Communications Inc. announced that Texas A&M University (TAMU) has selected Ribbon's NPT IP Routing for wireless backhaul on its private 5G research network. Designed specifically for the TAMU research community, the network connects the labs at the Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC) with Engineering and Computer Science labs on TAMU's main campus, the public safety training area at Disaster City, and the labs and testbeds at the RELLIS Campus. The network leverages Ribbon's advanced NPT 1800 multi service aggregation router and NPT 2100 access edge and pre aggregation router, part of Ribbon's comprehensive IP Wave portfolio, for increased performance and availability.

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