In today’s digital landscape, a highly secure and reliable network is a must-have. No matter the sector, traditional network infrastructure is struggling to keep up with the requirements of connected systems and businesses are under pressure to deploy new offerings constantly and rapidly.
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A new survey of enterprises interested in adopting private networks lays out two primary reasons that they want to do so—and it's not driven by vertical-specific, high-performance use cases.
Instead, they see the primary value of private networks as providing increased security and network...
Viavi outlines private Open RAN benefits and security complexities
Beyond macro public networks, Open RAN could also support the variety of deployment configurations necessary for private enterprise networks. But just as Tier 1 operators have to guard against security incidents to stave off financial and...
Pausing to reflect with media and analysts in London yesterday (August 3) on decent quarterly growth of 4.5 percent within its enterprise division, Vodafone provided some useful colour on its strategy and progress with ‘mobile private networks’ (MPNs; private LTE and 5G, by any...
The business arm of UK-based operator Virgin Media O2, owned by Liberty Global and Telefónica, is offering a Nokia-made private standalone 5G (5G SA) network-and-compute system in a portable hold-all for “businesses of all sizes”. The logic is to make private cellular accessible to...
Ira Keltz, deputy chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the FCC, noted that spectrum still represents the key ingredient for wireless systems
Countries around the world are releasing more spectrum bands, but the lack of harmonization and availability is posing problems. Devices...
US-based private network vendor Celona has introduced important – critical for hard-nosed Industry 4.0 – fixes to its private LTE/5G system to support key layer-two operational technology (OT) protocols to network industrial machines – including with PROFINET, most significantly, but also BUS, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT,...
Today, the private network is supporting use cases in Las Vegas such as telemedicine and remote learning, as well as some IoT capabilities
In partnership with Japan-based NTT, Las Vegas City has laid claim to “the most extensive private network” in the U.S. The network...
Where were we? Oh yes; a quick-fire summary of a panel discussion with Intel and Microsoft from Private Networks Forum in May, which presents, in random order, five technology drivers and five business drivers (or other business concerns) for the rollout of 5G in...
Nextivity sees solving for complexity and risk management as key to driving private LTE adoption
While there’s industry consensus that it will be a marathon, not a sprint, for private LTE and/or private 5G to be broadly implemented across the massive world of enterprise, investment...
Leo Gergs, analyst with ABI Research said that the private 5G market is moving away from an exploratory phase
The global private cellular market is expected to reach $100 billion by 2030, with a growing participation of services and applications, according to Leo Gergs, senior...
A panel discussion with Microsoft and Intel at Private Networks Forum in May yielded some helpful insights about the push-and-pull for enterprises to deploy private 5G networks. The conversation, under the heading Mastering Each Vertical Via New Partnership Ecosystem, zipped through a number of...
Private Wireless is one of the healthiest and most rapidly growing sectors today. So, how quickly and how large will it ultimately grow? When investors and business customers consider a private wireless service provider, they look for companies and technology on the rising side...
As a sign of where industrial-grade 5G is really up to, the announcement from German firm Siemens that it has opened a mainly-5G test lab at its main research campus in the south of the southern city of Erlangen says it remains a technology-under-review...
Andrea Caldini is vice president of product engineering and development, global network and technology, at Verizon, and has been instrumental in the company's pursuit of private networks such as its deployments with KPMG in support of healthcare and life sciences, with the Port of Virginia,...
In Sweden, Telia said that 73% of Swedes now have access to Telia’s 5G network
Nordic telecom operator Telia Company said it had achieved overall 5G population coverage of 84% across its footprint at the end of June, up from 77% at the end of...
A panel session at Private Networks Forum in May discussed what 5G delivers for enterprises now and what it promises to deliver in the future, with a keen eye on the applications that will swing the business case for them to invest in all-singing...
An IoT MVNO killer? It sure sounds like it, almost – if the whole rest of the global operator market could just pick it up. But no, says the global enterprise arm of US operator Verizon; IoT-geared MVNOs will plug into its new global...
Orange said that the deployment of this 5G virtual private network will require a total investment of $4.04 million
Spanish operator Orange has developed a 5G Standalone (SA) virtual private network for the port of Barcelona, with the aim of offering advanced mobility service to...
Note, this is an excerpt from a new editorial report, called Private 5G for IoT – plotting timelines, defining applications and making bets. The full report is available to download for free here. An on-demand webinar on the same topic is available here.
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Development of the 5G standard is ongoing, and much of its most enterprise-relevant functionality will be made available in forthcoming releases. This paper considers what private 5G offers to enterprises today, how and when its functionality will develop for enterprises over the next few...
The business division of France-based mobile operator Orange is offering a hybrid public/private (‘private’) standalone 5G (SA) solution in its home country, combining simultaneous access to its public network with private network deployments for enterprises. It is the first time it has offered a...
Sooner or later, it all comes down to money – and there just aren’t that many clear-cut use cases to bankroll a private 5G deployment. That is the consensus. Yes, industrial AR for remote assistance, reliable mobility for AGVs and AMRs, and, most convincingly,...
Docomo said that the new service is offered using mmWave technology running on 26 GHz to 28 GHz spectrum
Docomo Business, the enterprise business brand of Japan’s NTT Group, has launched an end-to-end, fully managed private 5G service in Hong Kong with a vendor-agnostic approach.
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