2025/11/11 – Taiwanese startup FiduciaEdge Technologies, a spinoff of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, has been honored with a “Top Selection” award and a US$20,000 prize at the 2025 MobileHeroes Global Communications Competition for its breakthrough “TSORAN: Trustworthy Shared 5G O-RAN” platform.
The MobileHeroes Global competition is an international challenge focused on 5G/Edge/AI communications innovations. It attracts teams from over 20 countries and emphasizes real-world applicability, commercial viability and ecosystem readiness for next-gen networks. Against a deep global field of entrants, FiduciaEdge’s entry stood out for both its technical maturity and commercial readiness—not only meeting the competition’s core theme of 5G+AI/Edge, but also positioning toward future 6G networks.
Innovation at a glance
TSORAN is a next-generation wireless access network architecture that enables secure, shared deployment of 5G O-RAN (Open Radio Access Network) infrastructure. By leveraging advanced design and system-level trust mechanisms, the solution enables multiple operators or service providers to share a common RAN footprint while maintaining quality-of-service, isolation and security.
To achieve carrier-grade performance and trust assurance, the TSORAN demonstration system is built on the CASwell CAR-5060, a high-performance edge server optimized for telecom and secure edge computing workloads. The CAR-5060 provides the processing density, PCI Express expansion capability, and hardware root-of-trust needed for O-RAN DU/CU applications. Its robust thermal and power design supports real-time RAN tasks, while enabling TSORAN’s trusted execution, slice isolation and multi-tenant orchestration. Using this platform allows TSORAN to deliver high performance in a compact, deployment-ready form factor suited for private 5G and neutral-host scenarios.
With the growing demand for 5G private networks, enterprises generally face challenges in deployment, including high hardware investment, expensive licensing fees, and long deployment cycles. Small and medium-sized enterprises and cross-domain applications are particularly vulnerable to the dual barriers of cost and security. The TSORAN shared O-RAN architecture proposed by FiduciaEdge allows public and private networks to share the same O-RAN infrastructure while maintaining end-to-end traffic isolation. This improves security and operational efficiency while reducing private network construction and integration costs, meeting the 5G rollout needs of telecom operators, neutral host providers, and large campuses.
Three Key Technical Highlights of the Trusted Shared Architecture
TSORAN utilizes a trusted cloud-native architecture, with three key core technologies. First, through the T-REE trusted execution environment, CPU, memory, and I/O isolation is enforced, ensuring high security protection for each network slice. Second, dynamic scheduling of network slices enables rapid deployment based on different tenants or application scenarios, supporting multi-tenant sharing. Finally, end-to-end traffic isolation achieves “network sharing without data sharing,” while meeting QoS and security requirements.
FiduciaEdge states that TSORAN can be widely applied in 5G private network scenarios such as smart manufacturing, smart cities, AIoT, transportation, and energy, helping to improve overall telecom resource utilization efficiency and accelerate the implementation of communication services.
Significance for Taiwan and the global telecom ecosystem
This accolade underscores Taiwan’s rising role in the open-networking and O-RAN ecosystem, which is increasingly viewed as a strategic inflection point in the global telecom supply chain. Open RAN architectures aim to break the legacy vendor lock-in model, reduce deployment cost and accelerate network innovation. For FiduciaEdge, the award marks a major milestone and acts as a strong credential in the global marketplace, providing validation from an international adjudication process built to assess interoperability, commercial viability and innovation.
To demonstrate private network sharing applications on an international scale, FiduciaEdge has completed a cross-border O-RAN project between Taiwan and Poland. The tests show that TSORAN effectively shortens deployment time and reduces integration costs, while ensuring security isolation meets design goals. The company noted that this cross-border O-RAN verification is a significant milestone toward international collaboration and commercial deployment, and will also strengthen Taiwan’s role in the global O-RAN supply chain.
“We are delighted that the TSORAN platform has been recognized on the global stage,” said Reaforl Hong, CEO of FiduciaEdge’s investor and close partner CASwell Inc. “The award confirms our belief that shared-RAN architectures will play a key role in enabling flexible, cost-efficient and secure 5G deployments, and that Taiwan has the engineering and systems-integration capabilities to anchor this next wave.”
Next steps & market outlook
FiduciaEdge plans to leverage this award momentum to drive pilot deployments with telecom operators, begin commercial roll-outs of TSORAN and further enhance the platform’s scalability, security and service-oriented capabilities.
As the telecom industry moves toward 6G, advanced horizons such as network slicing, edge AI integration and open, vendor-agnostic RAN are gaining urgency. Taiwan’s ecosystem is uniquely positioned with a mature supply chain, semiconductor strength, baseband expertise and edge-AI capability to take a leadership role in the O-RAN/5G transition.
Please find out more about FiduciaEdge’s TSORAN and the award achieved at the MobileHeroes Global Communications Competition at FiduciaEdge.
More information about the CAR-5060 can be found here.
