Ericsson and Nokia will collaborate towards developing novel AI and distributed compute technology towards 6G research
Swedish vendor Ericsson and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) announced a long-term cooperation for joint research in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI), compute and radio.
Under the...
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”,...
Wireless connectivity is increasingly becoming a necessity for business critical services in industrial processes, especially those related to assembly lines and other modes of production. Many industries are looking at 5G to play a pivotal role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this webinar,...
Madan Thangavelu, director of engineering at Uber, provided some insights on real world applications of AI and edge to improve customer service fulfillment during a recent presentation at the Mobile Edge Forum 2022, available on demand here.
“When I think about edge, there’re just two...
DPU acceleration is now supported using Nvidia’s Bluefield 2 chips and Dell PowerEdge servers
SAN FRANCISCO: At its VMware Explore event Tuesday, VMware made several announcements, including major updates to its vSphere cloud compute and vSAN cloud storage software, sweeping changes to its edge compute platform and...
Some new light on the murky, creeping digital change taking place in the automotive sector, long-considered the flashiest venue for Industry 4.0 (but highly secretive and deeply conservative), and specifically at one of its blue riband manufacturers, in the original home of Industrie 4.0; German...
The latest developments in cloud-based AI and edge computing, coupled with 5G’s enhanced bandwidth, are about to mobilise robots like never before and unleash a manufacturing revolution, explains Richard Cockle, Global Head of IoT, Identity and Big Data at GSMA.
Factory automation is on the...
AT&T is working with Microsoft to enable US enterprises to roam from private LTE and 5G networks using the shared CBRS band to public networks using its own licensed spectrum and national infrastructure. The new AT&T Private 5G Edge product will sit alongside Microsoft’s...
MWC, Barcelona: The industrial sector loves the idea of digital change, says Verizon, and private 5G as a platform for it, but it’s just not very good at showing it. Speaking at a packed industrial 5G (Industry City / Manufacturing Summit) conference stream at...
Network vendor Nokia is working with New York-based managed infrastructure services provider Kyndryl, separated from IBM late last year, to jointly sell and develop private networking and edge computing solutions for the Industry 4.0 market. The partnership has emerged from a joint private 5G...
Note, this is an excerpt from a new editorial report, The Role of Hyperscalers in 5G and Edge – and how they are Collaborating and Competing with Mobile Operators at the Industrial Edge. The report is free to download, and available here – or...
Nokia has bundled industrial-grade compute, storage, and networking into a single edge solution for mission-critical Industry 4.0. The new package comes with industrial IoT sensing and analytics applications, as well, plus a “single pane of glass” management platform to draw together newly-connected operational technology...
Wireless smart meters have transformed the management of electricity, water, and gas supplies to homes and businesses. By some estimates, smart electricity meters have reduced electricity power consumption by approximately 5% to 15%. In 2020, there were 710 million electricity smart meters installed world-wide...
Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom are bundling private cellular and edge computing into an integrated ‘campus’ networking package for enterprises globally. The pair are offering the same in Germany, already; their new deal extends to a global market. Ericsson is providing the LTE and 5G...
2021 will be the year industrial IoT gets ‘massive’, when companies decide, after the impact of Covid-19, to make change, and to accelerate their digital transformation. In technology terms, a major driver of this ‘massification’ will be 5G, and in particular private deployments of...
Telstra and Ericsson have struck a deal to bundle localised edge-based 5G connectivity and compute functions for enterprises in Australia. The pair are looking to develop a reusable “edge cloud solution”, out of a test model deployed already with an unnamed financial services company,...
The global market for connected edge computing services will grow to about $7 billion in 2025, representing a seven-fold jump over 2019. The lion’s share – as much as two thirds, or $4.6bn – will go to the likes of Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s...
HPE 5G Lab meant to facilitate multi-vendor integration, interoperability
In previous generations of cellular, HPE has largely focused its telco core network efforts on subscriber data management. But with 5G designed as a cloud-native network from core to edge, the company sees a much bigger...
Latency-sensitive 5G use cases require edge computing investment
If you surveyed the greater telecoms industry, you'd likely get a long list of definitions of what (or where) exactly the edge of the network is; similarly, you'd probably return with a litany of potential deployment strategies--operator-led,...
Can 5G truly scale without a shift in network economics and collaborative development?
5G is billed as a revolutionary technology that will change consumer behavior and disrupt enterprises of all stripes. We’re currently in the very early days of commercial 5G so these paradigm-altering impacts...
New network architectures will 'create value in ways that we can barely conceive'
In the wake of two major acquisitions, CommScope Chief Technology Officer Morgan Kurk talked with RCR Wireless News about what 2020 has in store for the company as it realigns its business...
You can't do 5G without a virtualized infrastructure: VMware exec
SAN FRANCISCO--5G is accelerating telco adoption of software-centric strategies that will only compound as pervasive next generation connectivity enables a new era of enterprise and consumer experiences. As 5G matures and automated, end-to-end network slicing...
Edge computing sites will be pre-integrated to support CBRS
There's broad consensus in the telecom industry that building out edge infrastructure will be key to delivering latency-sensitive 5G use cases, as well as enabling enterprise and industrial initiatives that fit under the umbrella of digital...
Software-defined infrastructure focuses on using common hardware to support variable 5G workloads
As service providers increasingly take an IT-centric approach to building and managing increasingly complex networks, there's a move toward swapping out single-purpose hardware for more flexible infrastructure that uses software to virtually spin-up...
