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Nokia intros autonomous drone inventory-counting for US warehouse customers

Nokia has added a new drone-mounted automated counting function to its inventory monitoring service for warehouse customers in the US. It slots into its autonomous drone product, offered as part of its so-called Nokia AIMS (Autonomous Inventory Monitoring Service) package of drone-based logistics tools....

Deutsche Telekom boosts automation in port logistics

For this project, Deutsche Telekom deployed a 5G network with a special connection and an edge data center German carrier Deutsche Telekom has deployed its technology at the publicly funded "AutoLog" project in the port of Emden to introduce automation into the facility' workflows at...

Is network slicing coming of age, finally? ‘You’re having a laugh, right?’

A couple of interesting-sounding mission-critical slicing exercises by mobile operators in Europe in the last week or so got RCR Wireless to thinking about whether the slow rollout of standalone 5G (5G SA) in national network infrastructure has reached a point where it is...

Enterprises to spend $7bn per year on 18,000 private 4G/5G networks by 2028

Want more private 4G/5G market forecasts? Of course you do, and market research firm Kaleido Intelligence has come up with a humdinger: enterprises will spend over $7 billion per year on private 4G/5G networks by 2028, it says. Which sounds like a lot; but...

Vodafone turns on LTE-M in the UK, claims a full house of IoT tech

Vodafone has said enterprise customers in the UK now have all the necessary cellular-based IoT tools at their disposal, after it switched on LTE-M services in its home market. The operator, which has hitherto steered customers looking to connect battery-powered IoT monitoring applications onto...

Five obstacles for Industry 4.0 (ah, technology – all mouth, no trousers)

Digging into this new Cisco survey about the state of networking in the Industry 4.0 sector, which says the industrial c-suite is being driven to distraction by the risk and reward of artificial intelligence (AI), reveals certain things. They are hardly revelatory; but, again,...

Celona appoints German integrator Xantaro to sell private 5G in Europe

Germany-based managed system integrator Xantaro Group has been recruited by US private networks specialist Celona to sell its private 5G system into European enterprises. Celona joins Nokia, at least, in its roster of private 5G products. It flagged the viability of the Celona system...

Frequentis takes public 5G slice and private 5G core from Drei Austria

Austria-based critical communications provider Frequentis has taken a slice of Drei Austria’s national public 5G network in its home country to develop and test applications for public safety and emergency response control centres. The setup has also seen Drei Austria, in combination with parent...

AI risk and reward is driving Industry 4.0 c-suite to distraction, says Cisco study

Cisco has just issued a research study about the state of networking in the broad Industry 4.0 sector, and it is really good – comprehensive, and well communicated. Quite how much of it is genuinely new or surprising is open to debate, but it...

Hrvatski Telekom slices public 5G for ‘private’ 5G at major new smart port in Croatia

Port operators APM Terminals and ENNA Group have tapped Deutsche Telekom subsidiary Hrvatski Telekom for a ‘private’ slice of its public 5G network at their joint-venture development at the new Port of Rijeka, set to be the largest shipping port in Croatia when it...

Asterisk, asterisk, asterisk – things to think about when thinking about private 5G

In all the to-and-fro last week about how to size the private 4G/5G market, mostly following the quarterly results from Ericsson and Nokia, an email exchange with the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), which seeks to keep score of it, threw certain perennial aspects...

Boldyn to build private 5G lab for offshore energy and Industry 4.0 at Port of Blyth

UK-headquartered shared network specialist Boldyn Networks is to design and build a private 5G network at the Port of Blyth in Northumberland in the UK. The new infrastructure, based on an HPE/Athonet core network (and likely an Airspan radio network), will underpin a new...

Steady, and still ahead – Nokia’s private 5G quarter in review

Finnish vendor Nokia has added some colour to its quarterly private 4G/5G enterprise sales, after not saying much at all in its official results announcement last week. The firm added around 30 new enterprise ‘logos’ in the three months to the end of June...

Dell, Nokia partnership is an integration ‘easy button’ for CSPs and enterprises 

The companies are helping their customers take advantage of the latest technologies like cloud RAN, cloud core and private wireless Dell Technologies is working with Nokia to help communication service providers (CSPs) and enterprises seize the opportunities presented by the latest technologies like cloud RAN,...

IS-Wireless to install private 5G network at University of York

The university will use the 5G network to create and test its own xApps, which improve energy efficiency and control of the network and its components IS-Wireless, which provides private 5G solutions, announced the deployment of its private 5G network at the University of York...

Botched software, crappy computers, hybrid clouds – about the global IT outage

Some quick thoughts on the big IT outage today, which grounded planes, trains, banks, hospitals, shops, telcos, and broadcasters around the world. Reports on the radio this morning – when the story was breaking, as I drove the kids to school – led on...

UScellular joins MxD to boost private networking tech in the US

UScellular noted that that MxD's future factory floor in downtown Chicago features some of the most advanced manufacturing equipment and software available UScellular confirmed it joined MxD (Manufacturing x Digital) as a member, with the aim of leading the organization's focus on introducing private networking...

NTT Data intros edge AI platform to fuse data from private 5G and IoT setups

NTT Data, the global system integrator division of Japanese group NTT, has introduced a new edge AI platform that “integrates and synthesises” data from sensors, devices, and systems in enterprise venues to flow into task-specific industrial AI models. It is being offered as a...

Twenty big enterprise wins in the quarter – more from Ericsson on private 5G

More, here, from Ericsson about private 5G, after the Swedish vendor replied formally to questions in email from RCR Wireless about its enterprise strategy; its responses arrived after Monday’s post on the subject, and go further in terms of the trends it sees in...

Ericsson rejigs Cradlepoint, preps post-summer private 5G push

In a briefing room at MWC in Barcelona at the end of February, when presented with the idea that, for all its successes with the mobile operator crowd, Nokia is running away with it in the enterprise space, Ericsson responded by saying something about...

Humility, patience, collaboration – the big cultural shift in the private 5G market

Note, this article forms a (concluding) part of a recent editorial report from RCR Wireless about ‘private 5G in Industry 4.0 – hype versus reality’. The full report, which extends the discussion further, is available to download here – for free. The cultural approach to...

Licences, bands, industries – Brazil counts up its two-year private-5G totals

Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel has said 66 licences have been granted so far in the country for enterprise-owned private 5G networks in the country. Thirty-four licences have been issued for spectrum at 2.39-2.4 GHz (2,390 MHz to 2,400 MHz), 30 have licences been issued...

How the private 5G market got match-fit and found its killer app

Note, this article forms a (middle) part of a recent editorial report from RCR Wireless about ‘private 5G in Industry 4.0 – hype versus reality’. The full report, which extends the discussion further, is available to download here – for free. To an extent, all...

NTT Data tees-up private 5G, IoT, digital twin, AI for golf fans at The Open

NTT Data, the global system integrator division of Japanese telecoms conglomerate NTT, has deployed a private 5G network and digital twin in support of various sports analytics and fan experiences at The Open Championship, taking place this month (July 14-21) at Royal Troon in...