Future 6G systems are already coming into focus through research and early development, and one of the most exciting aspects is the role that artificial intelligence will play in the next generation of cellular systems.
First, a note on artificial intelligence versus machine learning....
“The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun the Clone War has.”
Rest assured, the future for telcos in 2024 is far less dire than this line from Star Wars – Attack of the Clones. But you wouldn’t know it based on growing industry concerns...
Vantage's longtime financial backers lead the investment, driven by anticipated need for more data center capacity
Vantage Data Centers has garnered $6.4 billion in equity investment, lead by digital infrastructure investment company DigitalBridge and tech backer Silver Lake, that the data center company says will...
Cloud and edge solutions provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has confirmed it has agreed a deal to acquire enterprise networking specialist Juniper Networks for $14 billion. The acquisition will double HPE’s networking business, increasing from around 18 percent of its total annual revenue to...
Private 5G and network slicing set to drive enterprise adoption of 5G
In a wide-ranging conversation with RCR Wireless News, Verizon Business Chief Revenue Officer for Global Enterprise and Public Sector Massimo Peselli shared his outlook for 2024. With a growing private 5G business and...
German enterprise group-comms software provider TeamViewer, which has featured prominently in remote collaboration and augmented reality (AR) use cases for early private cellular network deployments, has invested a “low double-digit million” euro sum into two separate Industry 4.0 solution providers: US-based industrial data platform...
Holiday greetings from Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri (picture is from the top of the Cranmer trail run at the Winter Park ski resort). We hope each of you have had an excellent Holiday season so far, and that your football team wins.
After a full...
Power distribution systems are rapidly evolving across the world in an effort to reduce carbon emissions and meet bold climate goals. Today, governments at the national, state and local levels are collectively investing trillions of dollars to build renewable energy sources and modernize their...
With the new launch in Canada, AWS now has 105 availability zones across 33 geographic regions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its second infrastructure region in Canada, the company said in a release.
With the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, AWS noted it was the first...
Jeroen Coussement, chief executive at Belgium-based industrial IoT scale-up Factry, sheds light on three hot Industry 4.0 topics for next year: creating a ‘unified namespace’, the shift towards user-centric production software, and the rise of AI-powered process insights.
1 | A ‘unified namespace’
A ‘unified namespace’...
Mark Pierpoint, vice president of strategic innovation and partnerships at Keysight Technologies gives his view of the year ahead in telecoms and tech; he discusses the opportunities and challenges with artificial intelligence (AI), environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives around energy transition, and the...
Ericsson and Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB), Malaysia’s 5G wholesale network supplier, have successfully conducted a proof-of-concept in the use of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and automation to simplify management of the 5G network and improve efficiency by reducing manual configuration tasks and...
Based on his insights gained over the past decade, Kristoff Van Rattinghe, chief executive at Belgium-founded IoT tracking firm Sensolus, discusses how IoT technology is developing and the trends companies can expect in 2024.
Containers, pallets, special loading racks, trailers, boxes and mobile machinery –...
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...
