
aql routes millions of SMS text messages per day and operates a wide-reaching connected national network. The company is responsible for over 100 million telephone numbers for UK ISPs and operators. The company ethos has always been founded in building collaborative partnerships and strong teamwork.Īql has been providing global mobile connectivity for the Internet of Things arena since 2006, through the evolution of 2G/2.5G/3G/4G and now 5G. It strives to make communication easy and accessible for all organisations to embrace the challenges a new digital world creates. Its mission is to power a connected society by providing robust and novel solutions that enable communications between cities, communities, people and businesses. It will also offer cellular (5G) Industrial IoT solution platforms, to facilitate experimentation and uptake of digitalisation in the UK’s factories of the future.įounded in 1998 by current Chairman Professor Adam Beaumont aql is a trusted communications provider specialising in secure and reliable wholesale access to fixed and mobile networks for government, enterprise and innovators. Through the Factory of the Future programme, Digital Catapult will help companies get ‘5G-ready’ by offering private cellular network deployment and integration capability for manufacturing and industrial domains, and will address businesses’ concerns on 5G cost, complexity and security. Digital Catapult is a trusted partner to the UK 5G ecosystem, including the government and those developing 5G, and is part of the Urban Connected Communities Programme and the 5G Testbeds and Trials programme led by DCMS. The AMRC, which is part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult network of research centres, now employs more than 500 highly qualified researchers and engineers from around the globe on the Advanced Manufacturing Park and Sheffield Business Park in South Yorkshire, as well as in Preston in the North West, and in Broughton, North Wales.ĭigital Catapult is the UK’s leading advanced digital technology innovation centre - driving early adoption of technologies to help the UK grow, reduce industrial carbon emissions, distribute advanced technology capabilities more evenly across the country and enable the best companies to compete globally.ĭigital Catapult collaborates with startups, scale-ups and world-leading organisations and brands, helping them to develop the right technologies to solve problems, and supporting them to adopt and gain value from digital technologies.įrom building and operating 5G testbeds, to running 5G accelerator programmes, its work in future networks technologies brings together innovators and businesses to explore the opportunities for the adoption and application of 5G to meet real-world challenges. Our operations have grown significantly since founding in 2001 and in 2003 we became the anchor tenant on the Advanced Manufacturing Park in South Yorkshire. Businesses can work with us on a one-off project, or join as a member for long-term collaboration. Our 125-plus industrial partners range from global giants like Boeing, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems and Airbus to small companies. We transform industrial and economic performance by making step changes in productivity, increasing competitiveness, developing new products and processes and training new talent and skills. The AMRC specialises in carrying out world-leading research into advanced machining, manufacturing and materials, which is of practical use to industry. University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)
