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Airtel Business sees strong demand for enterprise private 5G solutions

Airtel already provides 5G coverage across India after the telco launched the service in 2022 Airtel Business, the enterprise branch of Indian telco Bharti Airtel, is experiencing strong demand for private 5G services among its enterprise clients, local press reported, citing a private report. “Since launching...

Kagan: Some companies see opportunity in FWA and private wireless

Decades ago, wireless was a new treasure trove filled with small companies with big ideas and lots of growth opportunity. Today, after years of consolidation, growth and change, things are very different. After starting with lots of small companies, today we now have three...

Editorial Report: Highly bespoke and easily scalable – balancing customization and simplicity in private industrial 5G networks

The great challenge for private 5G vendors and integrators in industrial sectors is to design solutions that are entirely unique and appropriate for the purpose of all kinds of different enterprises and applications, and at the same time to offer systems that can be...

Kagan: What is Private Shared Wireless Network and why you should care?

Since it began in the 1970s, wireless has historically been an ever-growing, always-changing and important sector of the telecommunications industry. In recent years, we have seen it expand to new sectors like FWA with wireless broadband and to Private Wireless. Now the Private Shared...

What’s new? What works? What gives? – Nokia on private 5G and IT/OT integration

Ahead of a new report about how to reconcile custom design and easy scalability of private 5G in Industry 4.0, here is a straight Q&A with David de Lancellotti, vice president for enterprise campus edge sales at Nokia, about the challenges to make private...

Nokia and Vale to make private 5G data intrinsic to ‘cognitive’ OT production in mines

Nokia is putting major R&D focus on the mining industry, having won a number of deals for private 4G/5G infrastructure in the sector. Its research arm, Nokia Bell Labs, is working directly with Brazil-based mining company Value to create a “cognitive monitoring network service”...

How private mobile networks are making waves at container ports

Ushering in a new era of efficiency and innovation This is the third blog in a continuing series on private mobile networks. Read part one for more on what the technology is and how it works, and part two to learn how private mobile networks...

Siemens appoints LS Telecom to take its private 5G system global

Siemens has appointed Germany-based system integrator LS Telecom (stylised ‘LS telecom’) to distribute its private 5G system as part of a full consultancy and management offer for industrial enterprises in global markets. The news is significant, partly, because Siemens has only sold its private...

Wilson Electronics intros private-5G/DAS solution, rebrands as Wilson Connectivity

Proof, perhaps, that the private 5G market is getting busier with equipment vendors both big and small: amid all the enterprise-5G focus at MWC Las Vegas this week, US-based Wilson Electronics, a maker of signal repeaters for residential and enterprise customers, stuck out a...

Ericsson, Schiphol Airport to explore advanced private 5G applications

Schiphol previously secured its own dedicated spectrum for its private 5G network from the Dutch regulator Swedish vendor Ericsson has joined forces with Schiphol Airport, in the Netherlands, with the aim of exploring the potential of a private 5G network. In a release, Ericsson said...

Nokia releases industrial devices for private 5G and Wi-Fi 6 networks

Further to Nokia’s news yesterday (October 9) about new Industry 4.0 applications for its MXIE system – and actually announced yesterday, as well, in tandem, but lost in a Nokia PR deluge – the Finnish vendor has also released a flurry of new Industry...

Nokia adds new Industry 4.0 safety and security apps to MXIE system

ALERT: Last chance to sign up for the RCR Wireless webinar on how to scale private 5G in Industry 4.0 (‘balancing customisation and simplicity in private industrial 5G networks’) on October 10 2024, featuring speakers from CCS Insight, Ericsson, EXFO, and Verizon Business. Sign up...

Nokia and NTT DATA tie the knot on private 5G, finally – targeting cities, airports

ALERT: Last chance to sign up for the RCR Wireless webinar on how to scale private 5G in Industry 4.0 (‘balancing customisation and simplicity in private industrial 5G networks’) on October 10 2024, featuring speakers from CCS Insight, Ericsson, EXFO, and Verizon Business. Sign up...

Private cellular and DAS offer enterprise network synergies

Crossing the divide between public and private cellular network technologies occurs when there is a need to extend the feature-rich public services offered by mobile network operators deep into the enterprise network. Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) are one such well-established solution that is used...

Federated Wireless looks to ride BEAD wave with new CBRS planner tool

Spectrum management company Federated Wireless has released a new network planner tool for fixed wireless access (FWA) and private networks in CBRS spectrum in the US. The product is AI-powered, said the firm, insofar as it offers advanced radio frequency channel planning, coverage analysis,...

RAN tricks, IT kicks, API blitz – we will make ‘best’ private 5G ‘in the world’, says Ericsson

Note: sign up here to join the RCR Wireless webinar on how to scale private 5G in Industry 4.0 (‘balancing customisation and simplicity in private industrial 5G networks’) on October 10, featuring speakers from Ericsson, EXFO, Verizon Business, and others. This article is continued from here. The big...

‘More than carrier networks’ – unrushed and unruffled, Ericsson sets out private 5G plan

Note: sign up here to join the RCR Wireless webinar on how to scale private 5G in Industry 4.0 ('balancing customisation and simplicity in private industrial 5G networks') on October 10, featuring speakers from Ericsson, EXFO, Kyndryl, and Verizon Business. It’s got to be...

Private 5G security startup OneLayer expands deals with enterprises, vendors

Private 4G/5G security startup OneLayer has followed tie-ups with key network vendors Nokia and Ericsson with a multi-year deal with US investor-owned energy provider Evergy to manage and secure OT assets on its private cellular network. Evergy, based in Kentucky in the US, has...

5G won’t get easier; we’ll get better – Xantaro’s 5G adventures with Nokia, Celona

Want to know how private 5G is faring at the sharp-end of Industry 4.0? Well, you could do worse than ask a battle-hardened system integrator in its original home. Which is what RCR Wireless did, firing off a bunch of questions to Xantaro Group...

Good growth, some scale, same vendors – 2024 private 5G sales, in review

A new “forecast report” by analyst house Dell’Oro Group, says revenue from the sale of radio access network (RAN) equipment for private 4G (LTE) and 5G deployments in the global enterprise market grew by 24 percent in the second quarter of 2024. The result...

Verizon revs-up private 5G sales – despite Industry 4.0 speed limits

A couple of points from a conversation last week with Verizon Business about private 5G, ahead of a big report and webinar next month (sign up here) on how private 5G scales in Industry 4.0: the first is that the process is easier, suddenly;...

Ericsson preps private 5G push with reordered and refreshed enterprise portfolio

More to follow next week, with coverage of a wide-ranging interview with the firm’s enterprise chiefs, but here is the news from Ericsson’s enterprise industry event in Boston today (September 12), covering the brand and product refresh it talked about at the start of...

Editorial Webinar: Highly bespoke and easily scalable – balancing customization and simplicity in private industrial 5G networks

The great challenge for private 5G vendors and integrators in industrial sectors is to design solutions that are entirely unique and appropriate for the purpose of all kinds of different enterprises and applications, and at the same time to offer systems that can be...

Vodafone deploys private 5G at Czech nuclear plant

Vodafone has deployed an all-edge private 5G network in pilot mode at the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant in Czechia for power generation conglomerate ČEZ Group. The UK-headquartered firm called it a “European first”, as a 5G-based private network at a European nuclear site. The...