BROWSING: Private 5G

While private 5G investment has clearly not lived up to forecasts, the technology has matured, enterprises are buying it, and it is delivering net new value. Perhaps the central dilemma here is that, generally speaking, the people selling things tend to want to sell...

Private network operator and industrial connectivity specialist Citymesh has deployed a private 5G network – or rather upgraded an existing private LTE network – at the Nobelwind wind farm in the North Sea, about 50 kilometres off the Belgian coast. The work is part...

Nokia has polled 100 industrial enterprises with their own 4G/5G networks and found that the business case for private cellular is universally good, it has said. More than this, the Finnish vendor claims its limited sample of early-adopters, randomly picked from across the industrial...

Future Technologies says the DoD private 5G orders support use cases including drones and AR/VR U.S. industrial networks specialist Future Technologies has said it secured over $30 million in “private 5G related” projects with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) over the past 12 months....

Airspan Networks, with $95 million in fresh equity funding, has said it has been selected by Boldyn Networks to supply the private radio network (RAN) infrastructure for the city of Sunderland’s smart-city 5G project in the UK. The US vendor’s AirSpeed 1900 outdoor small...

Aramco Digital, the digital technology services subsidiary of state-owned Saudi oil and gas company Saudi Aramco, has obtained a specialist licence to use the 450 MHz spectrum band in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to stand-up private enterprise networks of various sorts to support...

Among the main motivations behind deploying private 5G networks at the edge for enterprises are the need for full and sole control of the network, according to an analyst at ABI Research The implementation of private 5G networks provide large enterprises with the fine-grained level...

The private 5G deployment is part of an initiative aimed at fostering the ecosystem for open 5G campus networks in Germany and in other European markets IS-Wireless, which provides private 5G solutions, will install a private 5G network at the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut in Germany as...

A Kyndryl executive stated that private 5G networks also need to be integrated with a host of other networks and technologies Private 5G networks is paving the way for a wide range of new capabilities including augmented reality applications, autonomously guided vehicles, precision robotics, and...

Note, this is an edited transcript of the opening address at Private Networks Global Forum last week. The whole event is available for registrants on-demand, for free (follow link). But this text which also forms the introduction of the summary report about the event...

Spectrum management company Federated Wireless has launched an “adaptive planning” tool to expedite and optimise cellular deployments in shared CBRS network spectrum in the US. The product, Adaptive Network Planner, integrates with spectrum management (SAS) and frequency coordination (AFC) systems, as well as enterprise...

The private 5G network uses core equipment from Ericsson and will cover an area of more than 35,000 square meters Deutsche Telekom is providing a 5G Standalone (SA) private network to broadcaster RTL Deutschland at the latter company's broadcasting center in Cologne, to boost coverage...

Vodafone and Ericsson will organize conferences to promote private 5G networks in cities such as Vigo, Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, ​​Bilbao , Valencia, Castellón and Málaga Vodafone Business, which is the business division of Vodafone Spain, and Ericsson have announced they will jointly carry out activities...

Experts provided insight on scenarios where private networks are being implemented to improve efficiencies 5G in operating room environments During one of the sessions of RCR Wireless News’ Private Networks Global Forum, a comprehensive discussion between Mathieu Lagrange, VP of research and development at Obvios and...

There was a good session last week at Private Networks Global Forum with Arvin Singh, head of global 5G solutions engineering at Verizon, and part of the US carrier’s global go-to-market team for private 5G. He was in conversation with Bruno Tomas, chief technology...

Private 5G networks are beginning to deliver 'real business value,' says AWS exec Even as private 5G deployments are taking off around the world, from China to Europe, scaling across and managing multiple services and locations remains a challenge. At the Private Networks Forum, panelists...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has integrated its Athonet private 4G/5G product, acquired early last year, with its Aruba enterprise Wi-Fi portfolio. It said it is the “only global enterprise infrastructure vendor to provide comprehensive Wi-Fi and private 5G solutions”, and the move makes it...

According to a NTT Data executive, a private 5G network ensures real-time insights into control rooms, enabling Industry 4.0 applications such as machine vision and AGVs Private 5G is key to enable enterprises across all industries to embrace technologies like Industry 4.0, AI, and IoT...

French national public television broadcaster France Télévisions is using a private 5G network to transmit coverage of the Olympic torch relay in Paris at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It has been broadcasting over private 5G for 10 hours per day since...

Electricity company EDF has accelerated its private LTE rollout at nuclear power plants in France with Ericsson and Thales. The firm, which originally scheduled two-to-four networks per year when the project was announced in 2021, told Private Networks Global Forum this week that it...

Annual spending on private 5G networks will grow at a compound rate (CAGR) of about 42 percent between 2024 and 2027, accounting for nearly $3.5 billion by the end of 2027, according to new research from SNS Telecom & IT, based out of Dubai....

Ericsson noted that this drone is one of the first natively mmWave 5G devices in the factory Ericsson has begun a proof of concept with an autonomous 5G mmWave connected drone with the aim of performing indoor activities within the Ericsson 5G smart factory in...

Netherlands-based mobile operator KPN has launched a new edge 4G/5G product for large enterprises combining private and hybrid cellular, on-premise computing, and indoor localisation services. It is pitching the product, called simply KPN Campus, as a higher-performing local network infrastructure, which is “safe and...

Swedish industrial machine maker Atlas Copco has reopened a UK facility as a smart factory and innovation centre with a private 5G network from country-mate Ericsson, and a showcase and training hub for its tooling, assembly systems, and machine vision solutions. The firm has...