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Marco Granted US Patent

Prof. Marco Ruffini, CONNECT Principal Investigator at Trinity College Dublin , has been awarded a US Patent in Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment Virtualization in a Multi-Tenant Passive Optical Network.

The news follows the granting of a Japanese Patent for the same technology and acknowledges the unique work Marco has been doing in the area of Open Radio Access Networks (OpenRAN) and the new 6G ONE consortium.

Read more on 6G ONE here.

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