Each year, there are a selection of new technologies that are expected to be the NBT - “next big thing.” As we prepare to enter 2024, I expect that private cellular networks will see a sharp uptick in adoption as the next generation of...
UK-based automotive manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and India-based comms provider Tata Communications, both part of Tata Group, are to deploy software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology to connect 128 JLR sites worldwide, covering all of its offices, plants, warehouses, sales centres, and data...
Weaver Labs said it is currently working on a 6G project funded by the U.K. government with universities and vendors
The telecommunications industry is in a good track in order to deliver its really ambitious objective of reaching sustainability in the whole sector, according to...
Throughout 2023, we’ve witnessed an explosion of interest in AI technology catalyzed by the advent of ChatGPT. With both promise and peril, this new wave of artificial intelligence sparked a dichotomous public discourse – some hailing AI as the key to a transformative future,...
Ericsson on how operators can work towards net-zero goals and deliver 5G sustainability without compromising performance
“Our target as an industry, as a society, is very clear,” Ericsson Head of Product Line 5G Sibel Tombaz said during a talk on 5G sustainability at the recent...
Reality or just a dream: how will AI, automation, and cloud technologies help communication service providers (CSPs) lower network energy costs 25% by 2025?
How can cloud-native operations and CI/CD simplify and accelerate sustainability efforts for CSPs, especially in optimizing energy usage in the RAN?
What...
Fostering trust and transparency in telco AI solutions are central to Ericsson's approach
As AI capabilities reach what Ericsson's Parth Radia called "an inflection point," the company is focused on building and delivering AI-enabled solutions built around trust and transparency. Speaking to RCR Wireless News...
Huawei held its signature Connect event in Paris just before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Despite intense sales restriction pressure globally amid concerns related to the security of its mobile networking solutions, the company continues to defy the odds. I liken Huawei’s resilience to that...
Wireless and AI fuel autonomous self-driving revolution at #CES2024
Racing is exciting. Cheering the drivers taking their race cars around the track at breakneck speeds. But what if there were no drivers? That’s right. Autonomous self-driving race cars are here, and they are being showcased...
Measuring and optimizing the value of WOW moments in relevant timescales
One of the biggest challenges facing CSPs today is identifying which metrics are most representative of a customer's experience and how to combine them for customer facing teams and network operations to proactively act...
Danish IoT MVNO Onomondo has been appointed to supply global IoT connectivity to brewing company Carlsberg Group to connect draught beer taps in pubs, bars, and restaurants around the world. The solution includes an IoT management platform, integrated into Carlsberg’s new DaughtMaster cloud analytics...
Arm has introduced a new embedded processor core for running artificial intelligence (AI) on battery-powered IoT devices. The new Arm Cortex-M52 processor, part of its Cortex-M family of IoT reference designs for low-cost and low-energy integrated circuits, is billed as its “smallest, most...
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There was lots of other good stuff during the Devil’s Advocate session earlier this month at Industrial 5G Forum. Notably, a couple of questions came up on regional spectrum policy, and the importance of...
Machine learning (ML) has achieved tremendous success in a wide range of applications, such as image and video recognition, object detection and natural language processing. Over the last few years, researchers and key industry players have been investigating the native support of AI/ML-based models...
The introduction of 5G has seen E-band spread to most parts of the world. In this 10th edition of the report, we see that the E-band spectrum fulfills the capacity needs for most deployments even beyond 2030. Driven by advancements in microwave technology, the...
The RAN compute portfolio from Ericsson includes two high-capacity processors and two high-capacity, energy-efficient routers
Ericsson has announced a new portfolio of RAN compute silicon that it is confident will support demanding 5G-Advanced and enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, enabling communications service providers (CSPs) to...
Artificial intelligence is being explored to improve customer service with smarter chatbots, dispatch network technicians more efficiently and automate simple, highly manual network operations tasks. It's also being co-opted by bad actors to fuel smarter robocall and text scams, according to Transaction Network Services....
Siemens has announced a new $150 million smart factory in Dallas-Fort Worth in the US to supply electrical equipment to US data centers and critical infrastructure. The new facility will make use of sundry Siemens-made IoT and AI software tools, notably to support digital...
The SoftBank executive noted that he expects 5G-Advanced technology to gradually be implemented into commercial network equipment after 2025
The main features of future 5G-Advanced networks are expected to include further improvements in the fundamental performance aspects of 5G, such as coverage, capacity and mobility,...
In today's technology-driven landscape, the reliance of organizations on their technological infrastructure is nothing short of absolute. While some may make do with conventional Wi-Fi setups, others will find that off-the-shelf solutions simply fall short of meeting their unique and complex needs.
Private wireless networks...
The new team of researchers in India will work with Ericsson research teams in Sweden and the U.S.
Swedish vendor Ericsson announced the launch of its "India 6G" program with the formation of an India 6G Research team in its Chennai R&D Center.
In a release,...
Rockwell Automation and Microsoft are working to leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate industrial automation design and development. The pair said they will combine technologies to accelerate Industry 4.0 with “industry-first” generative AI, and also to “empower” workers. First up, as part of...
This report provides a firsthand reflection on the tech giant’s efforts to meet this goal by detailing some of the major updates and messages out of Google Cloud Next ’23, with a focus on the company’s efforts to develop telco-specific products and services. For...
BT said the multi-cloud network will help its customers better use digital automation and AI
BT announced the launch of Global Fabric, an international network based on a network-as-a service (NaaS) model and designed to connect multi-cloud environments in a “flexible, scalable and resilient” way....
