Deutsche Messe‘s exhibition center in Hanover will get its own 5G campus network before the end of the year. In partnership with Deutsche Telekom and Siemens, Deutsche Messe is gradually transforming the exhibition grounds into a highly innovative multifunctional campus for over a total area of more than 1.4 million square meters.
With the 5G expansion, the Hanover site will also get one of the largest 5G campus networks in Europe in terms of area. In the first step, Deutsche Telekom is equipping five halls and the entire outdoor area, including adjacent parking lots, with 5G. Telekom will then supply all 30 halls and buildings on the exhibition grounds.
Jochen Köckler, Chairman of the Board of Management, Deutsche Messe: “We are thus changing from a mere organizer to an operator of a site for testing and demonstration purposes in high-tech environments. We are developing our exhibition center into a multifunctional innovation campus“.
The Lower Saxony Ministry of Digitization is supporting the 5G expansion of the exhibition center with more than 2.8 million euros. Minister of Economics and Digitalization Bernd Althusmann: “Corona will lead to long-term changes in the trade-fair business, as well as other sectors of the economy. We now have the opportunity to help shape this structural change and the accelerated digitalization it will bring“.
