This is not a definitive guide; this is not an exact science. But the logic is plain – to present a sensible way to think about devising an Industry 4.0 system that hits the mark. Because, when novel technology is brought to market by...
A piece of news from the back-end of last year, but worth memorialising here, in light of Hitachi Vantara’s early role in driving Industry 4.0 with its Lumada IoT platform, and its strategy and thought leadership to develop the co-creation story in digital transformation...
Vodafone’s IoT connectivity unit is to become a standalone business by April of next year (2024) following a major 10-year deal with Microsoft that will see both firms invest in the business, and the UK-based operator also commit $1.5 billion over the period to...
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...
Germany-headquartered IoT MVNO 1NCE has announced a series of software plugins in its cloud-based connectivity management platform to accelerate IoT development projects, and spearhead its development as an open software system for global IoT connectivity. It claims to have posted a 33 percent jump...
Some new-year reading, before the 2024 news agenda goes into over-drive; here, the enterprise team at RCR Wireless picks some choice long-form reports from 2023 about all-things IoT (low- and high-power, and in between) to set the conversation for 2024-in-tech. Enjoy.
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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...
As we embark on the journey into 2024, the telecom landscape stands at the threshold of a profound transformation:
In the realm of technology convergence, envision cloud computing, container/microservices architecture edge computing and CI/CD practices blending seamlessly for the 5G crescendo, akin to technological Avengers...
BT has started to roll-out its global network-as-a-service (NaaS) offer in carrier neutral metro-edge cloud facilities (CNFs) around the world. The service, offered as Global Fabric, was announced in October; the UK-based telecoms group has since expanded a deal with US real estate investment...
Rakuten Mobile has recently started R&D on the advancement of edge platform functions for the next communication standard after 5G
Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile said that its research and development (R&D) project into advanced edge cloud technologies for next-generation communications has been selected by Japan’s...
Nokia said the testing was carried out at its O-RAN Innovation Center in Dallas
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has successfully completed interoperability testing with a Mavenir radio using the O-RAN Alliance 7-2x interface at Nokia’s Open RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas.
During the...
The 5G network transition is now underway to what many true believers would consider “real 5G:” the implementation of Standalone 5G with the cloud-native mobile packet core. While the initial rollout of 5G was focused on introducing 5G spectrum to boost capacity, 5G Standalone...
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,...
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...
The grand combined promise of 5G networking and edge computing for enterprises is to max out the performance, reliability, and security of mission- and business-critical Industry 4.0 systems.But which workloads should always stay on-prem, for reasons of security and performance, and which can be...
SK Telecom initially applied this technology to the backbone section of the Seongsu and Boramae neighborhoods in capital Seoul
Korean carrier SK Telecom announced the deployment of what it claims to be South Korea’s first 400 Gbps high-capacity wired network, used in its 5G mobile...
In a major show of industry collaboration, Deutsche Telekom has combined with AWS and VMware, plus Mavenir and Dell, to develop a global private 5G network and edge compute platform for enterprises. The new proof of concept is dubbed a “globally distributed enterprise network”,...
Under the terms of the deal, Telefónica and Ericsson will also explore how to deploy Cloud RAN sites with a high degree of automation
Swedish vendor Ericsson and Spanish operator Telefónica have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the adoption towards an...
The grand combined promise of 5G networking and edge computing for enterprises is to max out the performance, reliability, and security of mission- and business-critical Industry 4.0 systems.But which workloads should always stay on-prem, for reasons of security and performance, and which can be...
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You know the drill by now; you know the questions. Here is the response from AWS, with the latest...
Telefónica Tech, the digital services and enterprise transformation unit with Spain-based telecoms group Telefónica, has a new deal with enterprise data services provider Snowflake, to sell the US firm’s hybrid edge-cloud (“multi-cloud”) services to enterprises in Europe. Telefónica Tech is to bundle Snowflake services...
The collaboration will position Amazon Web Services as Anthropic’s primary cloud provider for mission critical workloads
Amazon said it will invest $4 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic, taking a minority stake in the company, which has been an AWS customer since 2021.
The collaboration...
If you want to know about what to do with sensitive data in operational technology (OT) systems – how to prioritise and segment it, where to place it between the edge and the cloud, and how to retrieve it at both ends (and anywhere...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a new managed edge service under the banner AWS Dedicated Local Zones. The new services means enterprises can build their own compute infrastructure on their own privately-owned premises, either at a main operational site or a dedicated server...
