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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...

NTT Data deploys citywide private 5G and IoT in Brownsville, Texas

The City of Brownsville in Texas, in the US, has commissioned NTT Data to deploy a private 5G network and a roster of IoT and AI applications to support and promote public services, public safety, environmental sustainability, and economic growth. NTT Data, which has...

Understanding private mobile networks: How they benefit Australian businesses

This is the second blog in a two-part series introducing private mobile networks and the benefits they can bring to businesses in Australia. Read part one here. From bustling ports to massive manufacturing plants and entertainment venues, organisations across Australia can benefit from using private...

RCR Wireless News to host virtual Industrial 5G Forum on November 5th

As industries grapple with the complexities of Industry 4.0, many are still in the experimental phase. Yet, the dawn of the 5th Industrial Revolution is already upon us, with AI poised to work hand-in-hand with humans. But are businesses aware that the next wave of innovation is already gathering...

Network slicing – a useful 5G tool (but not more) to build enterprise solutions

One thing seems clear, after a couple of announcements in recent weeks and several years in the doldrums: network slicing is coming, and it will make a new virtue of nationally-available 5G networks for enterprises. Last week, the analyst community debunked a few myths...

Telekom Malaysia deploys private 5G at Petronas oil and gas plant

Malaysian multinational oil and gas company Petronas has opened a private 5G network at its liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex in Bintulu, on the island of Borneo in the central region of Sarawak in Malaysia. National mobile operator Telekom Malaysia has handled the deployment,...

Swiss drone rollout shows value of ‘brilliant’ public 5G to industry, says Nokia

As novel industrial technologies go, Nokia’s deal with Swisscom Broadcast, the Swiss operator’s enterprise-facing security and analytics arm, to deploy a network of 300 drones for emergency services and industrial applications feels significant – for both firms, as well as for the drone sector,...

Boldyn Networks expands in the Spanish market

Boldyn Networks noted that it has deployed a private network at the BASF facilities in Tarragona Network infrastructure company Boldyn Networks said it has deployed what it claims to be the first private 5G network in the chemical industry in Spain, amid a heightened focus...

Mining company Newmont green-lights private 5G from Ericsson at all global sites

US gold mining company Newmont Corporation is to junk Wi-Fi in favour of 5G on its remote controlled and autonomous machinery at its major mining operations in Australia, Africa, Latin America, and North America. The decision comes after a private 5G trial with Ericsson...

Swisscom deploys Nokia drone fleet for public safety and industrial monitoring

Swisscom Broadcast is working with Nokia to deploy a nationwide drone network of 300 drones for the emergency services, public safety, and private industrial sectors. It follows the same model as Nokia’s drone rollout in Belgium with Citymesh, and is expected to pass it...

Ericsson and Anterix to sell private 4G/5G to electric co-ops in the US

The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) has appointed Ericsson to offer private 4G and 5G networks to small- and mid-sized electric cooperatives (co-ops) across the US. NRTC is leading the consortium, which also includes telecoms and energy utility Southern Linc, offering core hosting solutions,...

HPE beefs up cyber defence for enterprise networks

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has beefed up its cyber defence offer for enterprise networks with the addition of behavioural analytics to its detection and response capabilities and zero-trust access to its campus network proposition. The latter covers local-area edge networks, including its private 4G...