BROWSING: Private 5G
Nokia intros sustainability calculator to show private 5G’s green creds
Nokia has introduced a ‘sustainability calculator’ for enterprises to estimate the environmental and operational (“social”) benefits of using private 4G (LTE) and 5G networks as a platform for new Industry 4.0 applications. The tool seeks to map out how edge networking and computing technologies...
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...
Citymesh ramps up 5G drone operations for Belgian emergency services
Citymesh is expanding its €10 million 5G drone network in Belgium, with 16 drone platforms, three remote operations centres, and about 10 pilots already in place. The firm wants to increase these numbers to 70 drones, five centres, and about 40 pilots, RCR Wireless...
Nokia unites with Rockwell on 5G for Industry 4.0, RUCKUS on fiber for in-building
Nokia is working with Industry 4.0 giant Rockwell Automation to test private 5G in standalone (SA) mode in the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band in the US. Specifically, they are looking at private 5G for control and automation of industrial assets using industrial Ethernet (EtherNet/IP)...
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...
Liquid targets African mining sector with Globalstar private-5G exclusive
African fibre broadband and satellite connectivity provider Liquid Intelligent Technologies has signed an exclusive deal with Globalstar to sell the US satellite firm’s private 5G products in Africa and the Middle East. The collaboration will potentially expand on a non-exclusive basis to also cover...
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,...
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...
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,...
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....
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...