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...
Texas-based private 4G/5G provider GXC has agreed its sale to California firm Motive Companies, a provider of renewable energy and infrastructure solutions for industrial and commercial applications. Motive will provide GXC with "substantial resources" to expand its customer base and deliver advanced 5G network...
Consultancy firms love to talk, don’t they; and digital transformation (also covering private 5G) is surely their favourite topic. It is just the way they are built – to chat and discuss, with a view to delegate and collaborate (‘co-create’), and maybe, hopefully, to...
There’s lots of good stuff in the new RCR Wireless report on private 5G in Industry 4.0 – which is out now, free to download, and available here. But not everyone responded in time, and not everything made the cut. Here, for example, is...
Private 5G specialist Celona has introduced a new suite of ‘zero-trust’ security capabilities, under the name Aerloc, for industrial customers deploying private 4G and 5G networks to underpin IT and OT functions. New capabilities include unified SIM-based authentication, dynamic and distributed policy enforcement, and...
Using private 5G Standalone in industrial automation emboldens key use cases, including AGVs, connected workers and untethered industrial assets
The idea of bringing private cellular, both 4G and 5G, into the world of heavy industry has long been alluring to the telecoms sector. From the...
Siemens is to bundle its cybersecurity and generative AI applications with ServiceNow’s workflow automation platform to drive confidence and practicality in generative AI for Industry 4.0. The tie-up with ServiceNow means the US firm’s Now Platform – used to digitise, organise, and augment industrial...
Ahead of a new report about how to reconcile custom design and easy scalability of private 5G in Industry 4.0, here is a straight Q&A with David de Lancellotti, vice president for enterprise campus edge sales at Nokia, about the challenges to make private...
We’re playing this one straight. Kentucky-based industrial fan manufacturer Big Ass Fans is working with US printer company Lexmark, which has a sideline in IoT management software, and IT and cloud service provider Microsoft to produce an “IoT-powered comfort ecosystem” to monitor people and...
Advances in automation have impacted every industry, but arguably none more so than the manufacturing sector. Traditional assembly lines are being replaced by intelligent factories where machines not only handle assembly but help optimise resources and drive down costs. This technology revolution, known as...
Making calls, writing reports, doing the rounds – RCR Wireless stopped by industrial juggernaut Siemens to ask, effectively, what it made of comments by US system integrator Kyndryl last week that even the best-laid 5G-IT/OT integration plans go awry when heavy-handed IT goes up...
Hamburg-headquartered system integrator (SI) Xantaro Group has acquired fellow-German firm Nicos AG (stylised ‘nicos’) for an undisclosed fee, at once expanding its enterprise division and managed services portfolio, and handing it control of a service and security operations centre (SOC) with international reach. It...
ALERT: Last chance to sign up for the RCR Wireless webinar on how to scale private 5G in Industry 4.0 (‘balancing customisation and simplicity in private industrial 5G networks’) on October 10 2024, featuring speakers from CCS Insight, Ericsson, EXFO, and Verizon Business. Sign up...
Sign up here to join the RCR Wireless webinar on how to scale private 5G in Industry 4.0 (‘balancing customisation and simplicity in private industrial 5G networks’) on October 10 2024, featuring speakers from CCS Insight, Ericsson, EXFO, and Verizon Business. Also, look out for the...
Spectrum management company Federated Wireless has released a new network planner tool for fixed wireless access (FWA) and private networks in CBRS spectrum in the US. The product is AI-powered, said the firm, insofar as it offers advanced radio frequency channel planning, coverage analysis,...
BT has said it has “switched on” its network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform Global Fabric, following testing over the last couple of months. Commercial services will launch in early 2025, it said; live testing will continue in the interim. It has established points of presence (PoPs)...
UK-headquartered mobile operator Vodafone – or ‘Vodafone IoT’, or ‘Vodafone Business’, perhaps, or ‘Vodafone Business IoT’, as it is written in the press notice – is now connecting commercial integrated SIM (iSIM) chipsets and modules for IoT applications, following airtime integration into mobile security...
Note: sign up here to join the RCR Wireless webinar on how to scale private 5G in Industry 4.0 ('balancing customisation and simplicity in private industrial 5G networks') on October 10, featuring speakers from Ericsson, EXFO, Kyndryl, and Verizon Business.
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Private 4G/5G security startup OneLayer has followed tie-ups with key network vendors Nokia and Ericsson with a multi-year deal with US investor-owned energy provider Evergy to manage and secure OT assets on its private cellular network. Evergy, based in Kentucky in the US, has...
Nokia has introduced a ‘sustainability calculator’ for enterprises to estimate the environmental and operational (“social”) benefits of using private 4G (LTE) and 5G networks as a platform for new Industry 4.0 applications. The tool seeks to map out how edge networking and computing technologies...
Want to know how private 5G is faring at the sharp-end of Industry 4.0? Well, you could do worse than ask a battle-hardened system integrator in its original home. Which is what RCR Wireless did, firing off a bunch of questions to Xantaro Group...
A new “forecast report” by analyst house Dell’Oro Group, says revenue from the sale of radio access network (RAN) equipment for private 4G (LTE) and 5G deployments in the global enterprise market grew by 24 percent in the second quarter of 2024. The result...
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...
“I don't have any one-liners for you this time,” says Wienke Giezeman, almost apologetically, as if our periodic chats about the state of the IoT market are supposed to produce zingers and humdingers, and headlines that write themselves. Which they aren’t, even if they...
