As networks evolve, so do the skill-sets needed to design, deploy and maintain them. More software skills are needed at all levels as automation plays a larger role in everything from RF testing to how the network is monitored and managed. Networks are more...
In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry. Despite the bluster and hype from the tech industry, and the slow...
In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry. This report maps the vision, signs the obstacles, and charts a...
As the telecom industry works to enable 5G, virtualization and MEC for enterprise customers, they are first experimenting with how those technologies can benefit their own factories, office buildings and operations. Who's already using these advanced technologies, where and what benefits are they seeing?
The only way for operators to generate more revenue is to take more risk. The promise of 5G networks is in selling augmented connectivity solutions to enterprises, and not to consumers.
But the operator community must guarantee 5G services, offered on network slices or in...
Many expected 2020 to be the year of 5G. Then the pandemic hit. And now there’s talk of 2021 being the year of 5G. Where does 5G really stand globally?
This report explores how different regulations, spectrum availability and customer demands impact the deployment and...
In its early days, 5G was, in many ways, not markedly different from advanced 4G in terms of networks and the services they delivered. However that’s changing quickly as operators move from non-standalone to standalone 5G and virtualize network functions on the way toward...
As 5G continues its evolution toward broad digital enablement of the enterprise, the proliferation of artificial intelligence and machine learning in networks will be a crucial part of service providers’ strategies. For infrastructure, increasingly automated deployment, configuration and management accelerates time-to-revenue as closed technology...
LAA proved a major boom for operators looking to max out the capabilities of LTE networks. Similarly, MulteFire sparked significant interest in using cellular in unlicensed for private networking purposes.
Now, as 5G is evolving and scaling, bringing the latest generation of cellular into unlicensed...
After its unprecedented debut, 5G is now well poised to not only improve its already supercharged performance but also adopt new enhancements and techniques that enable it to expand its reach beyond traditional broadband services. 3GPP Rel. 16 brings new concepts such as Integrated...
With advances in Wi-Fi and cellular technology running parallel to each other, enterprises are encountering more and more options when it comes to building a network. As network architecture and topology becomes more flexible, many enterprises are left wondering what the best solution to...
The vast majority of mobile network use comes from indoors -- and providing good coverage will be a challenge for 5G, in millimeter-wave bands and even in the mid-band. How is the industry addressing this challenge?
RCR Wireless News looks at the options for achieving...
In this report, learn how manufacturing leaders are using digital thread technology to analyze and improve enterprise value streams in near real time.
Further, gain insights into how the powerful combination of digital twins--the digital blueprint of machines, controls, and processes--and digital threads can unlock...
To provide those multi-gigabit data rates 5G has promised, millimeter wave is a key piece of the spectrum puzzle. But, given its challenging propagation characteristics, operators have to take a thoughtful approach to deploying millimeter wave outdoors.
As early deployments in stadiums and arenas have...
It’s one thing to know where something is, it’s another to know how its contents have been treated – whether they are frozen, unfrozen, damaged, dropped, lost or stolen. Asset tracking and asset management are a boom industry, and a foundation stone for industrial...
5G is a fast-evolving, impactful technology that, beyond previous generations of cellular, promises a new era of connectivity-enabled business processes and outcomes. New developments in technology and opportunities in spectrum availability will enable 5G to live up to the potential of ubiquitous high-capacity, low-latency...
Digital threads and digital twins are the foundation stones for digital transformation. In manufacturing, they enable ways to assess processes and products in a virtual environment – without the need for physical iterations, and with huge impacts in terms of cost, efficiency, productivity, and...
The true benefits of 5G will be realized with massive scale, something that operators will have to pay mightily to achieve. In carrier-led effort to shift network economics in their favor, the open RAN ecosystem has flourished in recent years and is poised for...
The telecommunications industry is facing a major workforce problem and it couldn't come at a worse time. Just as operators are embarking on multi-year capex cycles to build out 5G, a lack of skilled workers could potentially be a bottleneck.
As such, test and...
Standalone 5G represents a new era of data capacity, localized compute and bespoke services. But building a completely new network while maintaining focus on existing operations is a challenging and potentially risky process.
As operators scale out 5G coverage in 2020, what's the technological and...
Connectivity for large venues is a consummate challenge only exacerbated by growth in data consumption and evolution in cellular and Wi-Fi technologies.
When considering a venue investment, 5G and Wi-Fi 6 isn't an "or" consideration, rather an "and" scenario where both flavors to high-capacity connectivity...
Commercial CBRS deployments have officially kicked off, with a healthy device and equipment ecosystem to support the three-tiered spectrum sharing framework.
The next big step for the technology is the Priority Access License auction set for late June 2020. So, who is using CBRS and...
Emergency responders are increasingly incorporating the use of mobile broadband into their daily operations, from apps that allow them to complete paperwork without returning to the station, to wearable cameras and incorporating security video surveillance.
What are some of the innovative uses for mobile broadband...
Analytics and automation are helping to transform operations and processes in factories. But how do you change workers and working practices? Well, augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) can help.
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By placing staff into virtual models / digital twins of production line tasks and...
