Telet is the lead partner in the ONE WORD consortium, it handles all the interaction with the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology as well as coordinating the project and supplying a lot of the 5G technology.
The Chief Architect is Andrew Miles, who has extensive expertise in building mobile networks. Andrew’s background is in RF and semiconductor design but his experience encompasses product strategy and engineering leadership in telecommunications product and operator companies. He is an authority on timing and synchronisation which is a key technology in protecting the UK’s critical national infrastructure.
Co-founder of Telet, Andy Smith is the head of networks. Andy spent twenty years as a software engineer writing military software, sonar and reactor monitoring systems. He moved into telco through working on a VoIP system for a small ISP. This led to a role as R&D consultant at Truphone developing VoIP technology for the Caterham Formula 1 team. His work at Truphone included developing systems based on a number of open source and proprietary telco technologies including Metaswitch, Asterisk and Kamailio. On the ONE WORD project Andy is responsible for the back-end core and interconnects, network operations and managing the systems based at Telehouse North where Telet has a physical presence alongside all the other UK MNOs
The 5G Mobile Networks Project Manager John Palmer is responsible for co-ordinating the backhaul. With a long history the other side of the fence deploying fibre networks he provides Telet and ONE WORD, as a customer of the fibre companies invaluable insight into what can be done, what can’t be done and what can be done but the fibre companies say cannot. And it’s not just planning John will wield a fusion splicer and get the job done.
Keeping everyone in line are the cool heads of Julia Cordall and Johanna Takacs who herd the cats and ensure the project runs to the milestones required by the Department of Innovation Science and Technology.
John Palmer who is the network planner helping us. He has a big background in fibre network planning, so he is helping us kind of work out the physical deployments. And Mick Cooper who is our RAN deployment manager, again helping with all the radio designs.
