Something strange is occuring in the utilities sector with the introduction of private 5G at the critical edge, says Southern California Edison. The new capabilities of private cellular are unburdening the old grid-edge of low-power IoT, and also liberating it for game-changing high-power IoT....
The long tail of national regulation on ‘vertical’ private 5G spectrum continues to wag, in a slightly inconsistent manner. Swiss telecoms regulator BAKOM has announced it will open the 3400-3500 MHz (3.4-3.5 GHz) band for enterprises to deploy private 5G networks from the start...
Network equipment vendor HFR has said it will supply a “converged private 5G and Wi-Fi 6E network” for a new industrial complex “in the metaverse” at the Kyungnam Techno-Park in the coastal city of Changwon in the southeast of South Korea. The Kyungnam/Changwon development...
Orange is to design and build a private 5G network at the Aqaba container terminal in Jordan, handling shipping cargo for the Levant region in the Eastern Mediterranean. It will be the first private 5G network in the country, said Orange, and the operator’s...
The edge has always existed, as any bull-headed IT wizard will tell you; but it has not always existed like this. The edge-cloud continuum is well travelled by enterprise IT technicians, taking powerful advantage of the economies of hyper-scale afforded by cloud-based compute engines....
Toulouse Métropole, representing the greater city region in and around the southern city of Toulouse in France, and one of 20 metropolis regions in the country, has appointed France-based firm Transatel, owned by Japanese outfit NTT, to provide a public 5G extension to the...
Four nines, five nines, six nines – everyone wants more nines. Every enterprise wants ultra reliability, with guaranteed uptime of 99.99 percent (or 99.999 percent, or 99.9999 percent). But here’s the thing; a flippant rule of thumb says every extra nine in pursuit of...
As part of the ongoing Postcards from the Edge series, RCR Wireless caught up with Dan Hays, principal at PwC’s strategy consultancy division Strategy&, to discuss how the Industry 4.0 ecosystem might impose some kind of industrial order on the new digital chaos at...
There is no blueprint for the critical Industry 4.0 edge, really; there is no way to rationalise in an easy matrix of applications and architectures which workloads stay at the edge and which go to the cloud. At least not in practical and usable...
Nokia has introduced a “modular and durable” industrial drone solution, Nokia Drone Networks, to run beyond-line-of-sight off a private cellular network and edge compute array. Nokia is bundling drones, a docking station, a ground control station, plus add-on IoT sensors and cameras. It is...
Campers are already on-site for what's billed as "America's biggest Labor Day party", the three-day rock festival in Pryor, Oklahoma known as Rocklahoma that will draw tens of thousands of people each day this coming weekend.
Verizon Business will be supporting the event...
Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has hooked up a private cellular network from Ericsson and an on-site edge engine from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run computer vision checks on a production line at its electric motor vehicle manufacturing plant in Berea, Kentucky, in the...
Speaking with system integrator NTT this week for an upcoming editorial report about how to allocate critical Industry 4.0 workloads, certain well-understood drivers to move computing and connectivity systems away from centralised cloud and network infrastructure onto enterprise premises were, again, made clear. The...
Nokia noted that there is a growing interest in FWA in India
Finnish vendor Nokia expects a rapid increase in the adoption of private 5G networks in India from the second half of 2024, Indian newspaper The Economic Times reported.
"You will see some early adopters...
The new solution will be delivered by Federated Wireless as part of its private wireless managed service
Federated Wireless announced its selection by VMware to deliver private 4G and 5G networks-as-a-service for enterprises in the form of the new VMware Private Mobile Network Service.
Federated Wireless...
US-based private cellular specialist Celona has set up in southeast Asia via a series of channel sales deals with carriers and integrators in South Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. It follows its move beyond its original confines in the CBRS market in the US...
“You can't just put on a hoodie and be down with the kids.” RCR Wireless is in conversation with Wienke Giezeman, co-founder and chief executive at The Things Industries, the Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN collective selling middleware and tooling into the hyperactive low-power end of the...
Just for the record… Globe Telecom, running the largest mobile network in the Philippines, has “successfully showcased” the country’s first standalone private 5G (5G SA) network at its own INNOVANIA technology and innovation event. It used a core network from Athonet, acquired by Hewlett...
On the back of its launch of a new managed security services (MSS) portfolio, France-based energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric has warned that new cellular-based operational technology (OT) solutions – advancing notably with the introduction of private 5G systems, flanked also by...
US-based enterprise connectivity integrator-reseller Velaspan has introduced a managed private LTE/5G service for large enterprise customers. The new product uses Celona’s core and radio network solution initially, and leverages the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band; it is targeted at enterprises in the construction, education, healthcare,...
HFR's my5G solution is a pre-integrated private 5G system
Korean ICT solutions provider HFR announced a collaboration with compatriot operator KT n to advance technology development, expand private 5G use cases and support digital transformation for small to medium-sized enterprises, local governments and public enterprises.
This...
MFA offers a number of resources for enterprises that are considering to deploy a private network
MFA, the alliance for private networks, is championing the global industry adoption of private networks in any available spectrum. Via real-life private network deployments in healthcare and industrial sites,...
Private networks present a number of challenges for testing and assurance. By their nature, private networks are delivering some type of service aspect that cannot be achieved via the public network, whether that be more secure access, targeted coverage, or more sophisticated features such...
Huawei considers that a number of ports in Latin America, Africa and Asia are starting to see the benefits of private 5G networks already deployed in Chinese ports
The 5G key pillars of speed, low latency, reliability and security have opened up new opportunities for...
