Mobile connectivity will soon become frictionless and omnipresent, according to Cisco
According to Bob Everson, global director of mobility and 5G at Cisco, the debate about whether 5G is truly here will come to a close in 2020, and we will "actually experience what it...
Michael Kanellos, IoT analyst, OSIsoft:
1. IoT declares victory
“IoT projects are often portrayed as the quickest way to get yourself fired with, allegedly, ‘close to three fourths’ of IoT projects failing. In reality, success is the norm.
“Gartner’s Eric Goodness conducted a poll that 57 per...
2021 will see a 57% compound annual growth rate for gaming traffic on the Internet, according to Cisco report
From Cisco’s point of view, developing cloud gaming is about the 5G network architecture, Cisco’s Lead Global Systems Architect 5G Ron Malenfant told RCR Wireless News....
French IoT firm Traxens has joined the Port of Rotterdam’s new smart container project, Container 42. It will provide the sensors in the container, to measure various physical and environmental impacts, as the container makes its way around the world in a bid to...
Combo of open RAN, edge compute central to 5G service delivery
LOS ANGELES--Today 5G is quite possibly the hottest topic in Los Angeles County, which would place it high in the running for hottest topic worldwide. But sometimes there's a topic, sometimes, there's a technology....
The Smart City Operating System will turn the city of Hull into a programmable city
Hull, a city located on England’s north-east coast, will become the first city in the U.K. to establish a purpose-built Smart City Operating System (OS). Using an internet of things...
Tech Mahindra and Cisco have come up with a new digital factory blueprint that puts 5G at the heart industrial operations. Tech Mahindra said the solution sets a model for IT-OT integration and security.
The solution covers certain factory functions, including wireless networking on the...
Latest 5G financing moves part of larger US/China trade war
The U.S. government is studying alternatives to facilitate financing to European 5G vendors Ericsson a Nokia in a move to put obstacles to the global expansion of Huawei, according to a report by the Financial...
Rural UK users are skeptical about being able to access new 5G networks
As 5G networks continue to sweep across the world promising to bring a new era of connectivity to consumers and enterprise users, an important conversation around the future of rural connectivity has...
A cloud-first strategy takes cost out of 5G, setting the stage for profitability
SINGAPORE--To be clear, neither Reliance Jio in India or Rakuten in Japan currently offer 5G services. In fact, Rakuten recently delayed the launch of its LTE network. Nevertheless, the two operators have...
Canadian investment company McRock
Capital has held an initial closing on its second venture capital fund, McRock
Fund II LP, dedicated to investing in the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT)
space.
The new fund has reached over 80%
of its targeted CAD100 million ($75.9 million). Investors include...
1 | GCF certification sets Altair to “revolutionise cellular IoT”
Cellular IoT chipset maker Altair Semiconductor, owned by Sony Corporation, has announced its lab has been officially authorised by the Global Certification Forum (GCF). The GCF quality mark for interoperability is considered to be...
5G is going to have a major impact on the job market, say Cisco
Cisco has been focusing its 5G energy on the enterprise side of things, and just last week recommitted on its plan to invest $5 billion in 5G during the next three years.
“Enterprises...
Cisco, Lenovo, Nokia, Schneider Electric, and Vodafone have joined IBM’s new Trust Your Supplier (TYS) blockchain project to bring efficiency, order, and accountability to the supply chain.
Belgian brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev and UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline have also joined as ‘founding participlants’, alongside these...
T-Mobile US says it has conducted the first successful North American testing of a Standalone 5G New Radio data session, and that the test was also a world-first test of a 5G SA data session in a multi-vendor environment.
The carrier plans to introduce Standalone...
Work is set to start on a new $7.5 billion smart city development in the Las Vegas Valley, which seeks to use advanced connectivity, automation, and analytics technologies to animate the site during both its initial six-year construction and its final operation as an...
The WBA highlights the importance of savvy Wi-Fi 6 deployment
Based on the IEEE 802.11ax standard, Wi-Fi 6, the next generation of Wi-Fi technology, was built in response to the ever-growing number of connected devices worldwide. Wi-Fi 6 was designed to improve speed, capacity, coverage and performance of connected devices, even...
Cisco and Google's partnership in India is part of the global initiative to scale accessible, reliable Wi-Fi
Cisco announced early this week that it has teamed up with Google to provide free, high-speed Wi-Fi to 200 locations across India in the next two months. The...
President Donald Trump has agreed to grant "timely" licensing decisions to U.S. technology firms that want to sell components and services to Chinese vendor Huawei, the White House said in a statement.
The decision was adopted following a meeting between Trump and the CEOs of...
Cisco is buying out of one of its optical equipment suppliers in a $2.6 billion deal. Acacia Communications will become part of Cisco's Optical Systems and Optics group under its networking and security business.
"With the explosion of bandwidth in the multi-cloud era, optical interconnect...
Keysight Technologies' Ixia put together what it says was the world's first public open demonstration of the progress of the 400 Gigabit Ethernet ecosystem for hyperscale data centers, during this week's Interop Tokyo conference in Japan.
Ten companies participated in the demo, Ixia said, which...
Cisco is set to acquire French cyber-security firm Sentryo, with which it has worked to author digital change solutions in the industrial IoT sector.
Headquartered in Lyon, France, Sentryo provides device visibility and security solutions for industrial control system (ICS) networks, promising availability and resiliency...
As we have heard, the UK’s 5G RuralFirst project is trying to do with 5G (or 5G-related tech) what the telecoms industry has failed to do with previous generations, and connect the unconnected, including farming communities looking for a digital edge.
It is transformative...
Low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT, among others, are helping farmers to connect their work to the internet, as we have heard. This connectivity provides a platform for them to start to introduce new automation and intelligence into their operations.
But LPWA...
