A digital twin is like a virtual copy of a real object or system. It mimics how the real thing looks, works and behaves. The digital twin stays up-to-date with information from the real object and helps us find the best ways to improve...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As the vision for 6G begins to make its way from R&D to standardization, what are the trends and goals, both technological and societal, that will and should influence it?
Experts from across the telecom industry, government and academia gathered in Washington, D.C. this...
In the kind of deal it seems to snaffle up for fun these days, NTT Data has signed a multi-year ‘digital change’ contract with Premier League football club Arsenal FC to provide analytics-based hardware and software tools to underpin and augment the team’s various...
NTT Data, the global system integrator division of Japanese telecoms conglomerate NTT, has deployed a private 5G network and digital twin in support of various sports analytics and fan experiences at The Open Championship, taking place this month (July 14-21) at Royal Troon in...
Siemens has heralded a new €4.5 billion smart city regeneration project in Berlin as a “global blueprint” for urban brownfield development and industrial transformation. Siemens is to invest €750 million of its own money over the next decade to make Siemensstadt Square in the...
It’s easy to imagine how artificial intelligence could benefit communications service providers (CSPs), not least by automating complex operations in radio access networks (RAN). Often though, that story gets boiled down to how AI will “drive down network costs and complexity,” and that’s a...
The funding is part of the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act, which was passed in 2022
The U.S. Biden-Harris administration is seeking proposals from eligible applicants for the development, validation and use of digital twins for semiconductor manufacturing, advanced packaging, assembly and test processes. In...
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)...
Quality data, digital twins and AI/ML will all help operators enable end-to-end automation in a multi-cloud environment
Managing the complex components of a multi-cloud environment is proving to be a monumental challenge for network operators, especially coupled with the growing need for automation techniques driven...
Viavi Solutions this week highlighted progress in its 6G Forward research program and the evolution of its support for Northeastern University's Institute for Wireless Internet of Things and the Open6G cooperative research center.
One of the goals of the research at Northeastern has been...
The telecom industry always expected that taking the next step in 5G network evolution, moving to full 5G Standalone (5G SA) networks, would be a heavy lift. And indeed, 5G SA network deployments saw sluggish growth last year, largely due to the technical challenges...
As 5G mobile networks grow in complexity, it’s becoming impossible for human network engineers to manage the network without automation. The evolution from rules-based automation to the use of AI/ML is creating a category of management solutions that can anticipate problems in the network...
5G, AI, edge and digital twins are interconnected technologies that together offer new possibilities for real-time data analysis
5G, edge computing, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) and digital twins are interconnected technologies that together offer new possibilities for real-time data analysis, intelligent decision-making and the optimization...
Seed funding of $200,000 has been awarded by O-RAN Alliance to the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University
The O-RAN Alliance announced the result of its call for proposals for seed funding of platforms that support research and development of next...
Siemens is offering a digital twin from Germany-based DMG MORI for machine tool processing on its Xcelerator marketplace for industrial-change applications. The announcement is significant, arguably, because it brings together two of the leading Germany-based protagonists in the global Industry 4.0 game, in the form...
InterDigital said the agreement will be critical for enabling 6G networks to scale and meet increased bandwidth and coverage demands
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has announced a research partnership with U.S. company InterDigital with the aim of developing 6G enabling technologies...
Germany industrial giant Siemens has opened the final wing of a new CHF250 million ($280m) ‘smart infrastructure’ facility in Zug in Switzerland which, it claims, takes advantage of the latest IoT sensing and AI sense-making technologies to optimise highly-efficient energy infrastructure and deliver a ...
Orange Business, the enterprise division of Orange, has signed a deal to tie together existing digital systems and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) in the Al Aqeeq area of Riyadh, and wrap it up in new data analytics and...
Globalization is shifting. Reshoring and nearshoring are the new trends, driven largely by a desire to be less dependent on China, but also by the supply chain fragility revealed during COVID, as well as geopolitical shifts, and the drop in domestic demand due to...
High data quality and system interoperability need to be top of mind when employing a digital twins methodology
The use of digital twins — a digital representation of a real-world physical product, system or process — is increasing across several industries, most notably in verticals like...
Keysight Technologies is making the move to acquire real-time digital twin company ESI Group through a share buy-out which values the company at nearly $1 billion. The company said this week that it has already made a binding offer to some shareholders in order...
Are we being hoodwinked? Has the marketing got away from us? Maybe, and maybe not. When will we see a tech vendor put its name to a report that discusses the societal dangers of sacking a workforce to make everything zero-touch autonomous – so...
Global system integrator NTT has announced a deal with Cisco to jointly “develop and deploy” IoT sustainability solutions for large organisations, mostly based on LoRaWAN. The new applications will be available on subscription, as-a-service, in order for enterprises to wrap their bids for sustainability...
DTC will work with companies including Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL), Axomem and Dell Technologies
The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) announced it has expanded its regional branch organizer (RBO) program to include India and Southeast Asia.
In a release, DTC said it will work with members...
