As referenced amid a bunch of stats in the preamble to RCR’s new editorial report on private 5G in Industry 4.0 (see image below), market research firm SNS Telecom & IT, based out of Dubai, has said the private 5G market is one of...
Telco AI solution for energy efficiency delivers 20% reduction in power consumption
A recurring theme in telco AI discussions is around acknowledging the grandiose transformational potential of the technology while embracing the practical reality that AI success is likely to start with narrow, practical use...
In March 2020, Docomo commercialized what it claimed to be the world's first Open RAN-based 5G network
Japanese carrier NTT Docomo said that it is currently using Open RAN (O-RAN) with the main aim of enhancing network flexibility and cost efficiency, the telco told RCR...
Ericsson takes stock of Open RAN standardization, integration and scaled deployment
Before examining what it will take to industrialize Open RAN, let’s look at what it means for a technology to be industrialized. At a high-level, it needs to be standardized, cost-efficient, able to integrate...
AT&T sees AI, cloud and Open RAN decoupling network enhancements from a “cycle of virtuous Gs”
AT&T is in the early days of a massive radio access network (RAN) modernization program. The operator is investing $14 billion over a five-year deal with primary vendor Ericsson...
Fujitsu has said its new Japanese-language large-language-model (LLM) is now available to global enterprise customers. Developed with Canadian data security and privacy outfit Cohere, the new product, called Takane, represents a “leap forward in generative AI capabilities” and offers the “highest Japanese language proficiency...
The financial and manufacturing sectors are most advanced with deployment of industrial artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, reckons Fujitsu. In conversation with RCR Wireless, on the back of a rush of news about its AI initiatives – including, lately, a new generative AI framework to...
StarHub said that other firms including Keysight Technologies and Fujitsu also participated in the trial
Singaporean operator StarHub has recently conducted what it claims to be the country's inaugural Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) call on its 5G network. The achievement comes as part...
Fujitsu is working with US data security and privacy outfit Cohere on a number of industry-geared AI projects, including joint development of a Japanese large language model (LLM) for enterprises in Japan, as well as an exclusive global reseller deal for other generative AI...
Fujitsu is readying a generative AI framework to help enterprises manage large volumes of data, and comply with regulations for its governance. It will be offered with its enterprise AI platform, called Kozuchi, from July. It said the new framework will solve issues for...
Japanese IT company Fujitsu is to deploy an AI model on a set of cameras around Hachijo Island in the Philippine Sea, one of 11 so-called “Tokyo Treasure Islands” about 300 kilometres south of the Japanese mainland, in order to chart the migration of...
Japanese IT consultancy Fujitsu and US business software provider ServiceNow are to combine on digital-change sales to enterprises. The duo have signed a deal to open a joint innovation centre (‘Innovation Center’) to showcase new edge/cloud analytics solutions to automate business processes in the...
Docomo and the other three Japanese companies have been jointly conducting R&D on sub-terahertz devices since 2021
Japanese companies NTT Docomo, NTT Corp., NEC and Fujitsu jointly announced the development of a 6G wireless device capable of 100 Gbps transmissions in the 100 GHz and...
Polymer manufacturer REHAU Industries, which makes plastic seals and componentry for doors and windows, is set to roll-out an industrial AI inspection tool from Fujitsu on its production lines in Germany following successful field trials. The new AI solution, based on unspecified “smart technologies”,...
The Nvidia 6G research cloud platform is comprised of Nvidia's aerial omniverse digital twin for 6G
Nvidia announced the availability of a 6G research platform that will allow researchers to develop the next phase of wireless technology.
The Nvidia 6G Research Cloud platform is open, flexible...
AI-driven network operations will reduce opex, streamline performance monitoring and increase operator agility
Fujitsu expects to see an acceleration in the pace of Open RAN (O-RAN) deployments this year and a consolidation in terms of commercial deployments in 2025, according to Patrick Eriksson, vice president...
With focuses from client to edge to RAN to core, Intel is all-in on AI for 5G
Mobile World Congress was big for Intel. In the larger sweep of 5G network disaggregation and automation, Intel has already built out a big partner ecosystem on its...
MWC, Barcelona; last week. Red Hat and Intel have developed a (relatively) easy and cheap edge/cloud computing solution for enterprises to deploy and multiply AI-based applications on private 5G networks. The duo have a reference solution, they said, which easily flexes distributed edge/cloud compute...
SK Telecom and Rohde & Schwarz are now part of this global 6G collaboration
Japanese companies NTT Docomo and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) have added two new partners to their collaborative 6G trials with global vendors and carriers.
The two Japanese companies said that...
ORCID will allow participants to test and validate their hardware and software solutions against an O-RAN network deployed by Dish
Dish Wireless, which is now a subsidiary of EchoStar, was awarded a $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information...
The sustainability North Star— “zero traffic, zero watt”
The radio access network (RAN) is the biggest energy draw in a mobile network. Because of this, network infrastructure vendors and operators are primarily focused on reducing power consumption in the radio domain. Doing this successfully has...
Deutsche Telekom highlighted that its 5G network currently covers 96% of the German population
German telco Deutsche Telekom said it has achieved its targets in terms of fiber optic deployment. The carrier said it made more than 2.5 million new fiber optic connections possible in...
Deutsche Telekom said its 5G network currently covers 96% of the German population
Deutsche Telekom (DT) expects to launch its 5G Standalone (5G SA) offering in Germany next year, the telco said in a statement.
In a round-up of its network achievements during this year, Srini...
The deal is part of the MoU signed by Nokia and Deutsche Telekom at MWC 2023 in Barcelona
Nokia and Deutsche Telekom (DT) announced that they have begun to deploy a multi-vendor Open RAN (O-RAN) network with Fujitsu in Germany.
The partners explained that the technology...
