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Private Networks Global Forum 2023 – Key Findings Report

The telecom industry and its ecosystem strongly believe in 5G private networks' capabilities to conquer new markets, but the adoption of the technology by enterprises is slower than predicted. As many issues remain on both sides, is the technology ready to take on enterprises'...

Nokia intros industrial drone solution – to go with 5G-edge setups

Nokia has introduced a “modular and durable” industrial drone solution, Nokia Drone Networks, to run beyond-line-of-sight off a private cellular network and edge compute array. Nokia is bundling drones, a docking station, a ground control station, plus add-on IoT sensors and cameras. It is...

Scandi SI Northcom accelerates private 5G push with Nokia

Norwegian system integrator Northcom Solutions has signed with Nokia to resell the Finnish firm’s private LTE and 5G solution, Digital Automation Cloud (DAC), into critical industrial sectors. Northcom has a presence in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, and a track record of selling Industry...

Verizon ready to Rocklahoma, sees growth ahead for mid-sized, private 5G networks

Campers are already on-site for what's billed as "America's biggest Labor Day party", the three-day rock festival in Pryor, Oklahoma known as Rocklahoma that will draw tens of thousands of people each day this coming weekend. Verizon Business will be supporting the event...

National Grid to set ‘honeypots’ to trap hackers – amid rising risk from digitisation

National Grid, the UK electricity and gas utility company, also operating in New York and Massachusetts, is advertising a million-pound vacancy for a cyber specialist to set ‘honeypots’ in its network systems to wrongfoot hackers and misdirect incoming attacks on critical energy infrastructure. The...

Telit Cinterion, Nestlé Brazil partner on private 5G

Telit Cinterion noted that the trial focused on how Nestlé could use 5G to connect autonomous manufacturing robots and automated guided vehicles at its plants Telit Cinterion announced the completion of a successful proof-of-concept trial of private 5G for factory automation. In a release, the company...

Hitachi demos machine vision on edge-5G at US autoplant – with Ericsson, AWS

Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has hooked up a private cellular network from Ericsson and an on-site edge engine from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run computer vision checks on a production line at its electric motor vehicle manufacturing plant in Berea, Kentucky, in the...

Postcards from the edge | Cloud is (quite) secure, edge is not (always) – says Factry

Another angle on (postcard from) the critical 5G edge, in support of an upcoming editorial report on the matter; industrial IoT software provider Factry, tackling the challenge of industrial automation as “hard-boiled IT experts”, suggests the entrenched paranoia and control freakery that tends to...

Postcards from the edge | Compute is critical, 5G is useful (sometimes) – says NTT

Speaking with system integrator NTT this week for an upcoming editorial report about how to allocate critical Industry 4.0 workloads, certain well-understood drivers to move computing and connectivity systems away from centralised cloud and network infrastructure onto enterprise premises were, again, made clear. The...

Nokia sees rapid adoption of private 5G networks in India in 2024

Nokia noted that there is a growing interest in FWA in India Finnish vendor Nokia expects a rapid increase in the adoption of private 5G networks in India from the second half of 2024, Indian newspaper The Economic Times reported. "You will see some early adopters...

Deutsche Telekom gets ‘largest’ private 5G gig – three German ports, for Eurogate

Container terminal operator Eurogate Terminals, part of Eurogate Logistics Group, has recruited Deutsche Telekom to build private 5G networks at port terminals in Hamburg, Bremerhaven, and Wilhelmshaven in Germany. The €6.6 million project, funded in part by the German government, will see networks running...

Celona goes to Asia with roster of private 5G carrier and reseller deals

US-based private cellular specialist Celona has set up in southeast Asia via a series of channel sales deals with carriers and integrators in South Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. It follows its move beyond its original confines in the CBRS market in the US...

The private 5G culture wars – “like listening to your parents talk about sex”

“You can't just put on a hoodie and be down with the kids.” RCR Wireless is in conversation with Wienke Giezeman, co-founder and chief executive at The Things Industries, the Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN collective selling middleware and tooling into the hyperactive low-power end of the...

Globe Telecom debuts Athonet-made private 5G in Philippines demo project

Just for the record… Globe Telecom, running the largest mobile network in the Philippines, has “successfully showcased” the country’s first standalone private 5G (5G SA) network at its own INNOVANIA technology and innovation event. It used a core network from Athonet, acquired by Hewlett...

Schneider unveils managed security service, warns of rising OT risk from 5G-IoT

On the back of its launch of a new managed security services (MSS) portfolio, France-based energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric has warned that new cellular-based operational technology (OT) solutions – advancing notably with the introduction of private 5G systems, flanked also by...

US integrator Velaspan signs with Celona to kickstart managed private 5G service

US-based enterprise connectivity integrator-reseller Velaspan has introduced a managed private LTE/5G service for large enterprise customers. The new product uses Celona’s core and radio network solution initially, and leverages the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band; it is targeted at enterprises in the construction, education, healthcare,...

Korean telco KT inks private 5G deal with HFR

HFR's my5G solution is a pre-integrated private 5G system Korean ICT solutions provider HFR announced a collaboration with compatriot operator KT n to advance technology development, expand private 5G use cases and support digital transformation for small to medium-sized enterprises, local governments and public enterprises. This...

How can private 5G help transform ports?

Huawei considers that a number of ports in Latin America, Africa and Asia are starting to see the benefits of private 5G networks already deployed in Chinese ports The 5G key pillars of speed, low latency, reliability and security have opened up new opportunities for...

How to bring private 5G to brownfield environments

While private 5G is poised to deliver major benefits to enterprise users, there are a number of complexities to deploying 5G alongside existing connectivity mediums, including 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi. In the context of private 5G for the shop floor rather than a carpeted...

The 5G disconnect – why private network adoption is lagging (Reader Forum)

In today’s digital landscape, a highly secure and reliable network is a must-have. No matter the sector, traditional network infrastructure is struggling to keep up with the requirements of connected systems and businesses are under pressure to deploy new offerings constantly and rapidly. Enter...

Vodafone claims 60 private networks, plus ramp-up to MPN 2.0 service wrap

Pausing to reflect with media and analysts in London yesterday (August 3) on decent quarterly growth of 4.5 percent within its enterprise division, Vodafone provided some useful colour on its strategy and progress with ‘mobile private networks’ (MPNs; private LTE and 5G, by any...

Re-shoring and near-shoring will drive smarter manufacturing (Reader Forum)

Globalization is shifting. Reshoring and nearshoring are the new trends, driven largely by a desire to be less dependent on China, but also by the supply chain fragility revealed during COVID, as well as geopolitical shifts, and the drop in domestic demand due to...

Virgin Media O2 intros Nokia-made private 5G box-solution for UK SMEs

The business arm of UK-based operator Virgin Media O2, owned by Liberty Global and Telefónica, is offering a Nokia-made private standalone 5G (5G SA) network-and-compute system in a portable hold-all for “businesses of all sizes”. The logic is to make private cellular accessible to...

Xcel Energy taps Nokia for private LTE in Anterix band across eight US states

Nokia is to deploy a private LTE network in the Anterix-owned 900 MHz band in the US for energy provider Xcel Energy. The deployment will support the firm’s grid modernisation and renewable energy strategies, plus optimised delivery of electricity and natural gas. The deployment...