BROWSING: AWS

A ‘bright spot in gloomy telecoms’ – private 5G sales to reach $6bn by 2027

As referenced amid a bunch of stats in the preamble to RCR’s new editorial report on private 5G in Industry 4.0 (see image below), market research firm SNS Telecom & IT, based out of Dubai, has said the private 5G market is one of...

AWS announces new investments in the UK, Brazil

AWS plans to invest $10.5 billion over the next five years building, operating and maintaining data centers in the U.K. Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest £8 billion ($10.5 billion) over the next five years building, operating and maintaining data centers in the U.K....

AWS launches Infrastructure Region in Malaysia

AWS also said it is planning to invest an estimated $6.2 billion in Malaysia through 2038 Amazon Web Services (AWS) officially launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, the company said in a release. The company said that the new launch will allow developers, startups, entrepreneurs...

AWS looks to expand its presence in India’s Hyderabad

AWS already has a significant presence in this Indian city Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its presence in the data center segment in Hyderabad, India, according to local press reports. AWS affirmed its decision to expand its investments in Hyderabad following discussions between...

For telco AI LLMs, is bigger necessarily better?

The pros and cons of building an LLM from scratch or tuning an existing LLM for telco AI use cases Whether for automated quality assurance on a manufacturing line, providing a conversational user interface for retail shoppers, or in support of a variety of of...

AWS, Telenor partner on sovereign cloud marked by AI, reliability, security

Telenor CTO highlights the role of ecosystem collaboration in driving growth and innovation Communications service provider (CSP) Telenor recently expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a two-fold goal: to embolden Telenor’s ongoing transition from telco to cloud-native tech-co, and as part of...

From RAG to riches with industrial AI – what is retrieval augmented generation (RAG)?

Speaking at an event in London on Wednesday (July 10), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) presented its portfolio of joint AI solutions and integrations with Nvidia, along with its channel strategy and training regime, to UK journalists and analysts that did not make the trip...

Will 5G Change the World? Telco AI LLMs with AWS, Dell, e& and Rakuten (Ep. 65)

In this special episode of Will 5G Change the World?, presented in partnership with NETSCOUT, we dive into the world of telco AI. As operators develop and implement long-term AI strategies, supporting it all are foundation models, specifically large language models. This episode, featuring...

Amazon, AWS announce new investments in Germany

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to make a €8.8 billion investment in Germany by 2026 Amazon announced a plan to invest an additional €10 billion ($10.7 billion) into its cloud infrastructure and logistics network in Germany, as part of the company’s efforts to expand its...

Mavenir launches an ‘AI co-pilot’ for CSP operations

Mavenir claims that 40% operational efficiency can be reached using the new AI solution Network infrastructure provider Mavenir developed an artificial intelligence "operations co-pilot" with Nvidia and Amazon Web Services, which it says shows that generative AI can be used to "effectively define a Service...

AWS Region in Thailand to launch by early 2025

AWS confirmed it will invest $5 billion in Thailand by 2037 Amazon Web Services (AWS) confirmed that its new AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region will be live by early 2025, the company said in a release. AWS said that this investment of more than 190 billion...

Ensuring flexibility and control when scaling private 5G

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...

AWS plans to invest $17 billion in its Spain region

The AWS Cloud spans 105 Availability Zones within 33 geographic regions Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to invest €15.7 billion ($17 billion) in Spain in its AWS Europe (Spain) Region, which will support an estimated 17,500 full-time equivalent jobs in local businesses on an...

Turn on, tune in, rock out – five key private 5G deployments by Verizon Business

Verizon Business is probably the one operator-backed enterprise services provider – outside of China, at least – that is starting to look like it has the measure of the private 5G market. It speaks very well of its strategies and successes, of course, but...

AWS to invest an additional $8.8 billion in Singapore by 2028

AWS said this investment will be executed during the 2024-2028 period Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to invest an additional S$12 billion ($8.8 billion) into its existing cloud infrastructure in Singapore from 2024 to 2028, with the aim of meeting growing customer demand for...

O2 Telefonica and Nokia deploy 5G SA on AWS cloud

Nokia, which supplies the 5G core for the O2 Telefonica 5G SA network, claimed that this development is a first of its kind Amazon Web Services (AWS) will host O2 Telefónica’s Standalone (SA) 5G core network software on its public cloud infrastructure in Germany. Nokia, which...

How to build LLMs for telco AI applications

AWS, IBM, McKinsey and Nokia on curating an LLM for domain-specific applications; bigger isn’t necessarily better and, at some point, you have to dive in If you’ve used consumer-facing generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini or Microsoft’s Copilot, chances are...

‘Every tech is hyped, but this is different’ – Siemens goes all-in on industrial AI

There’s something funny about a captain of industry (Industrie 4.0) scratching his head when his boiler breaks down at his French summer house. But this was the tale that Cedrik Neike, chief executive at Siemens Digital Industries, told Hannover Messe on Monday (April 22)...

Ignion intros AI tool to speed-up IoT designs in digital twin platform

Embedded World 2024, Nuremberg: Barcelona based IoT antenna company Ignion has launched a new “AI-powered” antenna integration platform called Oxion to further shorten the design time for wireless IoT devices. The new service integrates “proprietary algorithms” from local Barcelona AI/ML firm Basetis into Ignion’s...

Future Technologies sells $14m of private 5G to US energy sector in 12 months

Evidence, or indication at least, that the burgeoning market for private networks in Industry 4.0 is as much about local knowhow and boots-on-the-ground as it is about global corporate reach; busy US-based system integrator Future Technologies has just stuck out a press note about...

AWS to launch infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia in 2026

As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest more than $5.3 billion in Saudi Arabia Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to launch an AWS infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia in 2026. AWS said in a release that the new infrastructure region will...

NTT Docomo selects AWS to deploy 5G O-RAN in Japan

AWS said it has also joined NTT Docomo’s OREX initiative to promote O-RAN efforts at a global scale Japanese operator NTT Docomo has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) to commercially deploy its nationwide 5G Open Radio Access Network (RAN) in Japan. In a release, AWS said...

AI-RAN Alliance kicks off to integrate AI into cellular technology

The members of the AI-RAN Alliance will collaborate to advance RAN capabilities through AI to improve spectral efficiency MWC, Barcelona— Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft and other major players launched the AI-RAN Alliance, a body aimed at integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into cellular technology to...

Verizon builds custom multi-core private 5G at Audi test track – with Nokia, AWS

Verizon Business has deployed a “highly-customised” private 5G “environment” at a vehicle test track in Neustadt, Germany, belonging to automaker Audi. The setup uses multiple cores, radio frequencies, and network technologies, variously from network vendor Nokia, edge/cloud vendor Amazon Web Services (AWS), and system...