This is the third blog in our Under the Hood with JOINER series. The intention is to give a clearer view of the technology behind the platform, the design decisions we have made, and the challenges involved in enabling system-level research across a distributed national infrastructure. JOINER continues to evolve, and this series will provide a practical look at that journey.

This is the first blog in our Under the Hood with JOINER series. The intention is to give a clearer view of the technology behind the platform, the design decisions we have made, and the challenges involved in enabling system-level research across a distributed national infrastructure. JOINER continues to evolve, and this series will provide a practical look at that journey.

JOINER is an international-scale experimentation platform built to support advanced connectivity research across distributed sites, technologies, and organisations.

Learn how the University of Glasgow and partners are using JOINER to build secure programmable networks for smart grids and critical infrastructure, tackling the challenges of legacy protocols, limited visibility, operational risk and poor data access.

JOINER’s National Spectrum Facility (JNSF) provides a UK-wide, measurement-driven research infrastructure designed to transform spectrum from a constrained and statically allocated resource into a continuously observable and intelligently managed system.

The University of Bristol, working through the JOINER Platform, has developed and is validating a predictive path-switching framework for resilient multimedia streaming over integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.

Madevo and JOINER have partnered to develop autonomous AI agents for real telecom and data centre operations.

Last week the UK Government announced a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ireland, naming the JOINER open experimentation platform as a key pillar of bilateral cooperation on future networks, 6G research and digital resilience.

The JOINER Platform has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement with Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) establishing a formal partnership to support collaboration and joint experimentation between the two world-leading research organisations.

We’re delighted to share details on our presence at MWC Barcelona. Innovations on show will include telecom networks as an alternative to hyperscale data centres for AI large language models (LLMs), showcasing the monitoring capabilities of the JOINER National Spectrum Facility and holographic telepresence across Europe.