For Industry 4.0, business case development and technical considerations are clearly important but maybe market catalyzation will come from leaps of faith
Uptake of industrial 5G solutions has been a bit of a mixed bag. While the vision of Industry 4.0 hasn’t yet been relegated...
Jio said its 5G stack includes 5G radio, core, OSS/BSS, small and pico cells and other software solutions
Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is seeing interest from global operator for its 5G stack, local newspaper The Economic Times reported, citing the company’s president Mathew Oommen,...
Verizon said the new private 5G network will cover 270 acres of the NIT campus with dedicated Ultra Wideband spectrum
Verizon Business and the Norfolk International Terminal (NIT) announced an agreement to build a Verizon private 5G network at their Virginia facility, the former said...
Las Vegas selected Juniper Networks’ Cloud Metro solution, featuring ACX7024 cloud metro routers and EX4300 switches
Juniper Networks announced the city of Las Vegas has selected Juniper Cloud Metro solutions for building its private 5G network, with the aim of powering services for the...
Nokia said the testing was carried out at its O-RAN Innovation Center in Dallas
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has successfully completed interoperability testing with a Mavenir radio using the O-RAN Alliance 7-2x interface at Nokia’s Open RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas.
During the...
Asked if he’s ready to build 6G, Verizon CFO says, “Not at all”
While Verizon stock prices have been on a bit of a wild ride this year, the operator’s CFO projected confidence in a discussion at the Morgan Stanley European Technology, Media and Telecom...
Carriers and network equipment manufacturers have stepped up tests and trials of 5G New Radio Reduced Capability (RedCap) in recent months. Geographically, these tests are taking place around the world, reflecting the global interest in 5G RedCap and the hope that the technology will...
Mobile Experts sees private 5G becoming commoditized in the 2030-2034 timeframe
Right now spending on private 5G systems is concentrated at the very top-end of the market; Fortune 500 companies with massive internal engineering support and deep pockets for digital transformation are footing the bill....
The RAN compute portfolio from Ericsson includes two high-capacity processors and two high-capacity, energy-efficient routers
Ericsson has announced a new portfolio of RAN compute silicon that it is confident will support demanding 5G-Advanced and enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, enabling communications service providers (CSPs) to...
OTICs are vendor-independent, open, and qualified labs approved by the O-RAN Alliance
The O-RAN Alliance ecently accredited two new Open Testing and Integration Centers (OTIC) which adds to the existing O-RAN ecosystem.
The O-RAN Alliance said in a release that the new OTICs are MITRE in...
The Colombian government previously said it expected to award the 5G spectrum on December 20
Colombia’s ICT ministry, Mintic, confirmed that it has received and verified the applications of the four operators interested in participating in the upcoming 5G spectrum auction.
In a release, the ministry...
GSA highlighted that at least 47 operators in 27 countries have already launched 5G SA networks
A total of 121 operators in 55 countries and territories have invested in public 5G standalone (5G SA) networks as of the end of October, Jordan Cox, research manager...
Apple's iPhone 15 leads the pack in speed improvements in most global 5G markets tested
Do the latest iPhone and Samsung Galaxy ZFlip and ZFold models offer enough of a performance boost to be worth an upgrade?
It depends on your geographic market and its...
The Port of Tyne views its private 5G network as a key enabler of a broad suite of smart port use cases
The Port of Tyne in the United Kingdom is among numerous similar facilities around the world that are investing in sweeping digital transformation initiatives...
In order to effectively benefit from telco AI solutions, operators need to first focus on building a robust data platform
For telco AI use cases to materialize in a beneficial manner, operators first need to understand and organize the data they have which is, generally...
The great promise of private cellular is that some day every enterprise will be able to have its own 4G or 5G network. There is a long way to go to reduce and simplify the offer for the mass market, but there is fantastic...
Security threats for companies operating in different verticals increase when a new technology is integrated into a legacy system with increase of connected devices
Changes in processes and the conversion of IT and OT teams create new challenges and security vulnerabilities for companies in different...
The idea that 5G would finally propel us from point Internet of Things solutions, and limited proofs of concepts, to the broad vision of digital transformation as enabled by a fully connected world hasn’t really come to pass. But that could be changing with...
Private cellular networks offer tremendous benefits for enterprises: better security than Wi-Fi, smooth handovers between radios, improved throughput and latency, and future-proof support for a diverse set of use cases.
An expert partner is necessary to bring private networks to their full capabilities and tailor...
Current tests are laying the groundwork for RedCap to be commercialized in the 2024-2025 timeframe
Carriers and network equipment manufacturers have stepped up tests and trials of 5G New Radio Reduced Capability (RedCap) in recent months. Geographically, these tests are taking place around the world,...
Fujitsu said the SoftBank deployment included the former's next-generation optical transmission platform "1 FINITY Ultra Optical System T900"
Japanese telecommunications operator SoftBank recently completed the nationwide deployment, in core areas, of an all-optical network, using a disaggregated architecture optical transmission system that supports open networks,...
Vodafone Idea had confirmed “advanced talks” with a number of vendors in order to define its final strategy for the deployment of 5G in India
Indian operator Vodafone Idea is already offering 5G services in select locations in Pune and Delhi, Indian press reported.
The reports...
Vodafone Germany said the new campus network will be ready by the end of 2024
German carrier Vodafone announced it is setting up a private 5G-based campus network for BASF Schwarzheide at the former’s Lausitz production site.
Vodafone said it will equip the production site with...
Huawei believes that 5G-Advanced technology will enable wireless production and flexible manufacturing with its low latency and high reliability
5G-Advanced technology, or "5.5G", will pave the way for a wider adoption of connectivity for industrial settings, John Gao, President of Huawei’s 5.5G domain, told RCR...
Cargill site director gives a view from the factory floor—5G use cases aren’t clear and don’t justify in the investment
In a refreshing reality check from the Industrial 5G Forum (available on demand here), a site director for process manufacturing giant Cargill made clear that...
