BROWSING: critical industry
Ligado Networks teams up with Ubiik to offer US utilities Band-54 private LTE at 1670-1675 MHz
US satellite communications provider Ligado Networks is to offer a private LTE solution from Taiwanese advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and private network provider Ubiik to run in Band 54 spectrum at 1670-1675 MHz. It is targeting the utilities sector, and other mission-critical customers. Band...
Postcards from the edge | Ultra ‘six-nines’ reliability – and why it’s madness (Reader Forum)
Four nines, five nines, six nines – everyone wants more nines. Every enterprise wants ultra reliability, with guaranteed uptime of 99.99 percent (or 99.999 percent, or 99.9999 percent). But here’s the thing; a flippant rule of thumb says every extra nine in pursuit of...
Postcards from the edge | No single recipe for Industry 4.0 success, says PwC
As part of the ongoing Postcards from the Edge series, RCR Wireless caught up with Dan Hays, principal at PwC’s strategy consultancy division Strategy&, to discuss how the Industry 4.0 ecosystem might impose some kind of industrial order on the new digital chaos at...
Nokia shifts private 5G sales strategy to go all-indirect, zero-touch, mega-sized
Another challenge, apart from devices, with the mission to scale industrial 5G is with sales channels. Speaking a while back, following its “flagship” arrangement with system integrator Kyndryl for its various Industry 4.0 gear, Nokia says its strategy on private networks has shifted, decisively....