Our Services.
Constantly evolving with new collaborations and advancements, our services are underpinned by the JOINER Core Infrastructure and dedicated facilities focused on key areas such as spectrum, NTN and AI. Find out how it works and how you can use JOINER to further advanced technology communications.
What JOINER offers.
At the centre of JOINER is its Core Infrastructure: three integrated components that provide the operational backbone for everything on the platform.
JOINER Fabric
The network fabric that ties federated nodes together, delivering connectivity, cloud, RICs and mobile packet cores, and data assets.
JOINER Nodes
The compute backbone for running experiments at scale, providing CPUs, GPUs, on-premise cloud, control platforms (including SDN and mATRIC), and switching.
Brain.
JOINER’s nerve centre.
The monitoring, orchestration and management layer, eliminating the need to configure every new test environment from scratch, meaning users can move more quickly from closed environments to commercial settings.
Sitting beneath this Core Infrastructure are our Facilities, each addressing a critical area of advanced connectivity research:
National Spectrum Facility.
Non-Terrestrial-Network Emulation Facility.
AI Acceleration Facility.
All of this runs on a foundation of system-level security that enables deeper inspection and resilience by design, not as an afterthought.
JOINER provides a common infrastructure and testing facility that is open for collaboration to all. This is where universities, large corporates, spin-outs and start-ups, SMEs, and government bodies come to experiment, collaborate, and innovate. The platform’s services continue to evolve. And with each new node that’s connected, more possibilities are realised.
Conducting world-leading research:
Studies at the bleeding edge.
JOINER supports pioneering investigation with the most advanced research platform available to UK academics – putting new studies on a fast track to world-leading discoveries, and accelerating the UK’s trajectory to 6G and beyond.
Generating valuable IP:
From research to the real world.
With collaboration, knowledge sharing, and access to a wide range of facilities and specialisations at its heart, our platform enables academics to accelerate their research from the theoretical to the real-world — and to IP generation.
Identifying technology big bets:
Cut through the emerging tech hype.
Our platform can be used to test new solutions in a real-world representative environment, to quickly identify pros, cons, and scale potential. These proof points will help to guide government decision-making, shape future policy and interventions, and provide investors with a clear roadmap.
Advancing research translation:
Connecting industry and academia.
JOINER delivers expandable cloud-native capabilities that rival commercial hyperscale offerings. Users can launch services in minutes, without needing to purchase additional hardware, and replicate live production environments.
Building end-to-end systems:
To create complete solutions.
The platform brings together network, compute, AI, sensing and communications capabilities into one environment, helping organisations reduce integration risk and prove performance.
Testing and validating services:
In the required conditions.
JOINER offers fully isolated project environments with central access control and monitoring. The platform’s unique scale and heterogeneous make-up means industry-relevant products and services can be put through their paces in an environment that’s representative of the real world.
Gaining evidence for standardisation:
Smoothing the path to the standards ecosystem.
Our platform provides organisations of all sizes with a means of gathering critical, scaled experimentation data in both controlled and live environments that can be used to demonstrate the efficacy and impact of IP in real-life representative scenarios.
Developing skills across systems:
And plug emerging gaps.
JOINER’s real-world testing environment provides industry employees, researchers, and undergraduates alike with the means to develop in-demand specialist scale system skills.