The Japanese arm of Cisco has joined with Mitsui Information and KDDI Engineering, parts of trading group Mitsui Group and telecoms operator KDDI respectively, to deploy a private 5G network at the Shinwa Komaki SFiC Lab in Komaki City, in the Aichi Prefecture in...
Palo Alto Networks has said its 5G security software is now pre-integrated into the private 5G offerings from a number of core network and other service providers. The initial intake covers products from Ataya, Celona, Druid Software, NETSCOUT, NVIDIA, and NTT DATA. It is...
MWC 2024: Bleary-eyed and dead-on-our-feet, after 72 hours in Barcelona and 24 hours in briefings…
MWC is not just a telco show, anymore; it is not even a telecoms show, really. Which reflects well on the event itself, as well as the industry that puts...
MWC, Barcelona: System integrator Kyndryl has announced a deal with HPE-owned private 5G specialist Athonet to “jointly develop and deliver” LTE and 5G services to enterprise customers globally. The deal extends Kyndryl’s existing deal with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for its Aruba portfolio of...
MWC, Barcelona: UK-headquartered NTT has announced a go-to-market deal with energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric to combine private 5G with the French firm’s ‘modular data centre’ proposition. They are pitching to industrial firms with large factories and remote sites. The solution uses...
Verizon Business has deployed a “highly-customised” private 5G “environment” at a vehicle test track in Neustadt, Germany, belonging to automaker Audi. The setup uses multiple cores, radio frequencies, and network technologies, variously from network vendor Nokia, edge/cloud vendor Amazon Web Services (AWS), and system...
Beyond the inner workings of mostly-public telecoms, about the navel gazing of open RAN and open APIs to re-make operators as ‘digital natives’ in the post-digital era, what will be the hottest topic at MWC next week? Sustainability? Well, yes; but that is a...
For the private-5G record… Texas-based private cellular and broadcast technology company Trilogy NextGen has installed an Ericsson-made private 5G network at the new Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) studio in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The network, which also combines multi-access edge compute (MEC) from Microsoft...
Verizon Business is currently piloting private 5G wireless network in select arenas
U.S. carrier Verizon and the National Hockey League (NHL) announced a multi-year sponsorship renewal under which the telco will continue to be the league’s official partner in the 5G field.
Additionally, as an...
Missouri-based technology services provider World Wide Technology (WWT) has opened a neutral host and private networks lab at its Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in St. Louis. It has teamed up with CBRS spectrum access and system provider Federated Wireless, plus semiconductor vendor Intel, on...
MWC is a brilliant show, of course. Not because of the big talk and shiny displays, although they are fun, too. But because you can get lost on the main streets and back alleys of this pop-up tech metropolis for a week at the...
Note, this article has been updated with the correct launch schedule for MX Workmate.
Nokia is readying a new generative AI tool for Industry 4.0 environments, to go with its private 5G and industrial edge products. The solution, called MX Workmate, is billed by the...
Polish IT firm Comarch has said it has secured a spectrum licence from the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE), the national telecoms regulator in Poland, to build a private 5G network and network operations centre (NOC) in the local 4-4.1 GHz band. It said...
Intel is pushing the private 5G angle ahead of MWC in Barcelona at the end of the month – plus the AI one, the edge one, the transformation one, and the ecosystem one. It has issued a press announcement to trumpet its involvement in...
Ten new projects have been selected for €50 million of European Union (EU) funding from a second call for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital) programme. The focus of the funding is 5G for Smart Communities’, and includes a couple of notable...
US-based network orchestration software company Aarna Networks has combined with radio and core network vendors Airspan Networks and Druid Software to produce a managed private 5G solution for multi-site deployments. The trio are pitching the service as a “zero-touch” bundle for scalable Industry 4.0...
California-based Industry 4.0 connectivity specialist Ataya has announced a flurry of system integrator and channel reseller deals to launch its Harmony industrial connectivity platform in Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. The firm has announced ADLINK, Wave-in Communications, Quanta Computer, Accuver Group, and...
Nokia has released the compact version of its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private LTE/5G product in Europe, pitching to small- and medium-sized industrial enterprises (SMEs) and the logistics industry, specifically. The firm started selling the solution, called DAC Compact, in the US in October...
RAI Amsterdam, the conference and exhibition centre in the Dutch capital, has a new private 5G network, courtesy of NTT and Cisco. The setup has been signed off in time for the Cisco Live conference at the venue this week (February 5-9). The deployment...
Proximus NXT, the system integrator division of Belgian operator Proximus, is to deploy a private 5G network, in pilot form, at the AZ Groeninge hospital in Kortrijk, West Flanders, in Belgium. The “proposal”, as it stands, is to “test 5G applications in a real...
It is always good to talk to Celona. The California scale-up has taken a position as an agitator in the excitable private networks market, positioning itself as an enterprise-friendly alternative to the likes of Nokia and Ericsson, with a cellular system born of deliberate...
California-based Industry 4.0 connectivity specialist Ataya has launched a simplified standalone 5G (5G SA) access point for small and medium-sized private 5G deployments that seeks to deliver a zero-touch setup at an affordable price – without the kinds of “complexities additional hardware” that...
What to believe? Who to believe? (We’ll write about this one day.) But, just because it’s modish, and because it presents another (!) way to segment the non-traditional new-cellular comms market, new research reckons the combined market for public and private LTE and 5G...
Boingo Wireless said the 5G network will support subscribers of U.S. carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon at the airport
Boingo Wireless has deployed a high-speed 5G network that will support subscribers of U.S. carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon at John Wayne Airport (JWA) in Orange...
