TeraGreen will help to put European telecommunications and microelectronics industries at the forefront in the coming decade, strengthening an already strong position. Europe has a direct need to regain leadership in semiconductor development and manufacturing and to secure the supply of electronics equipment that both underpins critical functions in society and enables competitiveness in new business areas. The project focuses on the combination of new disruptive technology with experts from the leading teams in Europe, all bringing complementary skills and knowledge to the team.
The success of TeraGreen will bring significant advances in the evolution of communications networks in 6G. In particular, TeraGreen will serve as a key enabler for this evolution in a long-term time horizon, i.e. 5-10 years from the end of the project. TeraGreen can serve as a complete backhaul solution for small-cell dense urban networks and for purpose-built fixed wireless access applications where backhaul capacity will be in the range of 200-1000Gbps. In particular, the backhaul technology of TeraGreen can be used as an alternative to the wired, fiber or microwave backhaul link of dense cells and microcells. In this way, TeraGreen will enable the densification of cells in a cost-effective manner, since it will downscale the need to deploy wired backhaul links (i.e. only to those small-cell base stations that do not have a LoS). Thanks to the energy efficiency of the proposed technologies, this densification will also be possible in a power-friendly and eco-friendly manner.
