R + D

SOVEREIGN-6G

The 6G telco cloud is poised to become a hybrid multi-technology environment, with communication, computing and acceleration resources increasingly being offered by hyperscalers and multi-MNO Federations, aiming to support the deployment of future-looking Digital Services. In order to succeed, the future 6G Telco Cloud is expected to converge Information Technology (IT) and Networking Technology (NT) platforms under a unified continuum of resources, while introducing full automation for managing their lifecycle. In order to make this vision a reality, SOVEREIGN-6G delivers the first 6G Telco Cloud in Europe, which will serve as the foundation of future-looking Digital Services aggregated and exposed by a groundbreaking Unified Service Platform. To this end, an evolable experimentation infrastructure is delivered, that integrates 6G sites from all over Europe and serves as a playground to test 6G breakthrough technologies for the future telco cloud. A Digital Service Orchestrator is also delivered, to provide SLA assurance over a dynamic compositioning of heterogeneous resources (e.g., compute, network, GPU) in this hybrid, multi-technology Telco Cloud Continuum environment. SOVEREIGN-6G is structured around 3 pillars: Pillar 1 is Delivering a new Unified Service Platform, as a Digital Service Aggregator envisioned to operate in increasingly complex ecosystems involving multiple stakeholders; Pillar 2 involves integrating IT, OT and NT platforms in an telco cloud continuum, alongside breakthrough 6G enablers; and Pillar 3 delivers a Native AI edge, addressing distributed inference, sovereign Edge AI workloads acceleration, and physical awareness via multi-modal sensing. Together these 3 Pillars that help address the main challenges that will mark the successful transformation of CSPs to DSPs.

FUNDED BY

Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking

PROJECT TYPE

HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions

PROJECT START

september, 2026

PROJECT END

august, 2029