Ericsson and Ericsson Research

Ericsson enables communications service providers and enterprises to capture the full value of connectivity. The company’s portfolio spans the following business areas: Networks, Cloud Software and Services, Enterprise Wireless Solutions, Global Communications Platform, and Technologies and New Businesses. Our portfolio of products, solutions, and services is designed to help our customers go digital, increase efficiency and find new revenue streams.

Ericsson’s innovation investments have delivered the benefits of mobility and mobile broadband to billions of people globally. The Ericsson stock is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and on Nasdaq New York. Our engagement in ELASTIC is from Ericsson Research. Ericsson Research (ER) serves the entire Ericsson group and is organized as part of the CTO office. and is a global organization with around 750 reserchers. ER has been driving research that resulted in 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, and is now driving the definition of 6G. We provide Ericsson with system concepts, technology and methodology, to secure long term competitive product and service provisioning. World-class innovation is achieved through our cooperation within Ericsson and with partners, customers, universities and research institutes. Also reflecting Ericsson’s commitment to technological leadership, the Ericsson Group has one of the industry’s most comprehensive intellectual property portfolio containing over 60,000 patents with around 50% having ER contributions.

Role in the ELASTIC project:

Ericsson will address TEE agnostic attestation, which is currently a pertinent issue in the context of adoption of Confidential Computing solutions in, e.g., telecom systems, and contribute to the experimental proof-of-concept prototype for observability of serverless WebAssembly workloads. Ericsson will also develop the IoT data fabric concept and implementation utilizing the secure and efficient deployment capabilities developed in the ELASTIC project.