February 2019

Liberty Lake IoT provider Itron has started to certify devices under the Wi-SUN Field Area Network (FAN) 1.0 programme. It follows fellow Wi-SUN leader Cisco to have its products passed …

Digi International has released a ruggedised LTE edge computing router for smart cities and utilities. The Digi IX14 is designed for low-cost, low-bandwidth single-asset applications, its maker said. It contains …

The vendor said that it will “actively support and drive discussions and development of network architecture evolution” Ericsson has joined the O-RAN Alliance, which focuses on evolving the radio access …

CTIA says U.S. lags in making mid-band spectrum available As the U.S. Senate prepares for a hearing on 5G, CTIA has released new analysis which estimates that making another 400 …

UK smart street lighting company Telensa has launched an open data platform for smart cities to collect, protect, and make use of urban data. The city of Cambridge in the …

CBRE has revamped its workplace app CBRE 360 and re-designed the product offering to bring an enhanced experience to clients through artificial intelligence and human-centered?tenant experiences. The rebrand of?CBRE 360,?which …

  The German carrier aims to launch a new 5G trial near Frankfurt in Q2 Deutsche Telekom announced plans to set up new 5G test areas across Germany this year, …

  Vodafone Idea said it is already testing automatic metering infrastructure at Genus’s R&D facility in Jaipur   Vodafone Idea Business Services, the enterprise arm of Indian carrier Vodafone Idea, …

Precision agriculture is a key focus of rural 5G trial While the long-term plan for 5G is widespread coverage, we’re still in the early days and commercial deployments are largely …

Today’s tech headlines are flooded with news of 5G and emerging technology topics. LED lighting control systems in particular are one of the smart city products being deployed globally, promoting …

5Ge indicator rolling out with latest iOS update Some AT&T customers with Android handsets have begun seeing a “5Ge” indicator when connected to the operator’s LTE-Advanced network. Now, with its …

It’s not just bandwidth and latency that are dictating the migration of industrial machine intelligence to the edge of the network. There are benefits in terms of compliance, security, and …

As virtualization changes networks, the network and service assurance market is changing as well Network and service assurance needs are evolving rapidly, as more applications — both network functions that …

Quality assurance is a critical part of manufacturing; it’s just humans are not very good at it. Their faculties are not trained to pick out anomalies in rapid carousels of …

Plugtest event focused on SDN for mmWave transmission ETSI recently held its first testing event focused on software-defined networking for millimeter wave transport, and the participating vendors were able to …

5G, unlike previous generations of standards, will be more than just a cellular radio definition. Instead, it will be a broad platform which integrates multiple radio access technologies (RATs) in …

  The global outdoor advertising company said that small cells will be deployed in ten cities across France   Global outdoor advertising company JCDecaux has announced that will provide support …

The idea of connecting a building to the Internet to manage everything from the security system to the parking garage is no?longer a fantasy- and is fast becoming a reality. …

After a decade of swings and misses, Microsoft finally threw the smartphone towel and is exiting the business. I have discussed this many time over the last decade. Microsoft has …

  The Korean carrier expects to fully launch 5G commercial services next month South Korea network operator KT has announced a new 5G offering, ahead of the full launch of …

Ahead of the Super Bowl, T-Mobile US sent out a delightfully ambiguous press release titled “T-Mobile Announces They’re Gonna Announce Something.” What could it be? Clarity on their long-touted television …

  Germany, France and the U.K. will be the markets with the highest level of IoT adoption in 2019   Revenues for the European internet of things market are forecast …

Similar to the voice assistant technology powering Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant and Cortana, which have are already dominated residential homes, AI assistants now are ready to make their entree into …

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is poised to release a new product, the Edgeline 8000, in its family of ‘converged edge systems’. The 8000 will provide the most advanced edge capabilities …

Verizon was able to cut its network latency in half in a test that combined its 5G Radio Access Network, multi-access edge computing and its virtualized network platform. Low latency, …