BROWSING: NTT

Are telcos ready for the edge, and what’s the role of 5G? (Part 1)

The distribution of compute out of centralized data centers and closer to where data is generated is seen as a key complement to latency-sensitive 5G services. Drawing form that, operators are approaching edge computing as a way to leverage 5G network investments, deliver differentiated...

“Customer and vendor, home and abroad” – China’s JDL explains global private 5G vision

The smart logistics operation at China-based retail giant JD.com “makes Amazon look primitive”, reckons regional English-language title The Asia Times. Certainly, its warehousing and fulfilment business, JD Logistics (JDL), caught the attention of the industrial tech media this summer when it revealed a fleet...

Celona on CBRS-bashing by old telco crowd – plus global expansion, growth verticals

Last month, the CBRS community in the US made a swift counter-strike, in the form of a joint letter to the FCC and NTIA, against a report by telecoms lobby group CTIA that said private and shared cellular is bad for the US economy...

Transatel on the “ultimate” public/private 5G mashup for Industry 4.0 (an MVNO story)

France-based virtual operator Transatel, busily offering somehow-unfashionable local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two decades already, has a second (actually, third and fourth) life, suddenly, in the global IoT game – which has become even racier in recent years with its acquisition...

NTT DoCoMo, SK Telecom ink 6G, metaverse partnership

NTT DoCoMo and SKT will align their concepts and timelines for the early deployment of 6G Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo announced an agreement with Korean telecommunications operator SK Telecom (SKT) to collaborate on the enhancement of their respective "smart-life businesses" and as well as communications...

Fujitsu tests private 5G for equipment inspection, remote recovery at data centres

Japanese IT firm Fujitsu is to start testing private 5G for equipment inspection at its major data centre in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa prefecture, as a springboard to drive “operational resilience and process automation” in the broader data centre market. The Fujitsu project, to...

Japan to create $450 million fund for 6G research: Report

The 6G fund will aim to provide financial support for 6G research and development for a number of years The government of Japan is setting up a fund to foster research activities into future 6G communications systems, according to Nikkei Asia. The Ministry of Internal Affairs...

BMW tests 5G positioning with Vodafone and Nokia at Leipzig factory

Vodafone Germany has been busy with private networks for Industry 4.0. A new announcement, with Nokia, says the pair are testing high-accuracy indoor positioning (HAIP) services over a 5G ‘campus network’ (‘campus-netz’) at BMW’s factory in Leipzig, the car maker’s premier site for testing...

NTT says Las Vegas private network is built for both ‘innovation and purpose’

NTT doubled the number of network access points across the city What better place to announce the expansion of a private LTE and 5G project in Las Vegas, Nevada than in Sin City itself. That’s exactly what NTT did last week at Mobile World Congress,...

Las Vegas taps NTT for ‘largest’ open private 5G network – to drive innovation, revenue

Japan-based NTT has expanded an already-major private LTE and 5G project in the City of Las Vegas, in Nevada in the US, by leading a vendor collective to double the number of network access points across the city, and also to open the infrastructure...

Celona offers device (and staff) certification scheme for private LTE and 5G networks

Celona has introduced a new device certification scheme to reassure customers that certain user equipment will work without a hitch on its local-area (LAN) private LTE and 5G systems. The scheme is for “cellular-native private wireless devices”, it said; it is the first of...

The question is always the same: ‘Can we trust you?’ – NTT on its big-ticket 5G wins

NTT is making waves in the private 5G market right now; deals with BMW on a test installation at its production site in Dingolfing in Germany and with local airport operator Fraport on a major commercial engagement at Frankfurt Airport (which followed a parallel...

NTT, VMware announce Edge-as-a-Service

The managed service combines VMware’s Edge Compute Stack with NTT’s private 5G NaaS Japanese telco and IT infrastructure company NTT has announced a new collaboration with VMware called Edge-as-a-Service. The managed compute platform leverages VMware’s edge compute stack and NTT’s private 5G network-as-a-service, to help enterprises...

Five thousand private 5G networks in China? BS! Talking definitions, storms in teacups

Someone somewhere said something about 5,000 ‘private networks’ in China. (Forgive me for not having the reference to hand; I am trying to write quickly and cover ground.) The point, as always, seemed to be just that China is running away with it –...

BMW recruits NTT and Intel for private 5G test site to drive Industry 4.0 gains

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...

Frankfurt Airport appoints NTT to deliver “Europe’s largest private 5G network”

Frankfurt-based airport operator Fraport, which operates Frankfurt Airport in Germany, has commissioned IT service provider NTT to build the “Europe’s largest private 5G campus network” (so-far announced), it has said. Work on the project will begin in the third quarter, with network tests in...

The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 6 – the channel

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...

The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 5 – the system

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...

The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 4 – the features

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...

The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 2 – the devices

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...

Integration, simplification, multiplication – three signs private 5G has come of age

This is a rehash (and extension, in the end) of a previous post, to an extent; but it distils the message from before, and says there are sure signs, at last, that the private cellular market, covering localised installations of enterprise-geared 5G, nominally, has...

NTT Com launches global service to support deployment of IoT equipment

NTT Com said the new service will target clients that deploy equipment such as automobiles, construction or agricultural machinery Japanese company NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced the launch of IoT Connect Mobile Type A, or ICM(A), an IoT connectivity service for mobile connectivity via SIM...

NTT rolls out 5G IoT service in the U.S. via its Transatel subsidiary

NTT started to offer both private and public 5G connectivity in the U.S. market on May 12   Transatel, a subsidiary of NTT, announces the worldwide deployment of a new 5G IoT solution for the industrial, IT and automotive sectors. The firm said that its offerings are...

NTT rolls out 5G IoT service in the U.S. via its Transetel subsidiary

NTT started to offer both private and public 5G connectivity in the U.S. market on May 12   Transatel, a subsidiary of NTT, announces the worldwide deployment of a new 5G IoT solution for the industrial, IT and automotive sectors. The firm said that its offerings are...