Fundamentals

Industry 4.0 represents a shift from ‘islands of automation’ to cyber-physical systems Four industry experts came together at the 5G Manufacturing Forum to offer insight into how some of the …

Ferrovial plans to use private 5G for its own asset-specific operations, and as a value-add for new (and prospective) customers Across its its six business units—highways, constructions, airports, mobility, energy …

US system integrator Kyndryl has published a nice-looking blog post, complete with videos, on its headline work, announced at the start of the year, to deploy private LTE for Michigan-headquartered …

We need to talk about private networks (some more). Because earlier this month, Enterprise IoT Insights opened the European edition of Private Networks Forum with a salutary address about the …

Note, this is a revised version of the intro/outro statements at Private Networks European Forum earlier this month, presented then as a way to invite conversation about the state of …

A panel session at Private Networks European Forum earlier this month put the spotlight on the discipline of private 5G and edge system management, specifically, where traditional mobile operators are …

Mavenir exec: ‘Open RAN is about the interfaces between the elements; not the interfaces within the products’ According to Mavenir Senior Vice President of Business Development John Baker, there is …

This is a fairly straight writeup of a summary report / blog from UK5G, the government-backed innovation network dedicated to industrial 5G in the UK, from a couple of weeks …

A helpful snapshot of the developing IoT market, from a presentation at The Things Conference in Amsterdam a couple of weeks back; Paul Pinault, vice president of platform and market …

Open RAN will triumph in private 5G, first. So said Jagadeesh Dantuluri, general manager for private networks at Keysight Technologies, speaking at Private Networks European Forum this week. These twin …

The consensus is that interoperability has made material progress but there’s still work to do As Open RAN has gained momentum in recent years, there’s been this recurring talking point …

R17 adds native MEC support by defining an edge app architecture The 3GPP R15 specifications completed in 2018 provided the not only the foundations for 5G architecture, but also the …

Open RAN one of many vectors of network transformation focused on service differentiation, operational efficiencies In the process of building out, expanding and advancing its 5G network, Verizon has for …

Read Verizon’s approach to Open RAN Part 1—vRAN to Open RAN The Verizon Cloud Platform bringing “significant benefits” around network automation and orchestration Network virtualization, including virtual radio access network …

This is a rehash of a social media exchange last week, somewhere in a far-off echo chamber on LinkedIn, following a post by Enterprise IoT Insights about unsuccessful IoT deployments …

Verizon has deployed Open RAN compliant, multi-vendor cell sites Verizon has deployed virtualized radio access network (vRAN) kit at some 8,000 5G sites, both mmWave and C-Band, and plans to …

The Things People – those in charge of the The Things Network (TTN) and The Things Industries (TTI) – took the magnanimous (though correct, given its place in the back-end …

Analyst house ABI Research, in association with US network design and services firm Betacom, has put out a white paper about private 5G in warehousing, and Enterprise IoT Insights has …

Some of the most interesting IoT use cases on the conference circuit in the past months have been about wildfire monitoring. Through the heat of summer, as parts of Europe …

Research groups have already begun discussions on 6G use cases and necessary technologies Although 5G is still very much a work-in-progress with a good deal of continued evolution ahead of …

According to Samsung, 6G will be characterized by ultra-wideband, ultra-low latency, ultra-intelligence and ultra-spatialization, which will support “extreme” communication performance A wide range of technologies such as AI, advanced sensors, …

The Next G Alliance believes that 6G and 5G will coexist for a long period of time, as future 6G systems will be an evolution of 5G and not a …

A California-based research firm, called TECHnalysis Research, has polled 400 US-based organisations either using or interested in using private cellular networks, and come up with a handy (regional-anecdotal) snapshot of …

According to Keysight Technologies, there is great interest from governments globally to kickstart 6G research Although global deployment of 5G is making solid progress and 3GPP Releases 17 and 18 …

In a bit of circularity, the Open RAN promise of full optionality between hardware and software components is also an overarching difficulty in deploying Open RAN at scale. How do …