UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has opened a six-week consultation with a view to open more cellular spectrum for shared and private usage. It said the success of its Shared Access Licence (SAL) framework, which opened four bands for a range of enterprise users in...
Swedish vendor Ericsson has acquired secure access software provider Ericom Software via its US-based enterprise networking division Cradlepoint. The transaction, for an undisclosed sum, shores up Cradlepoint’s secure access service edge (SASE) and zero-trust offerings for hybrid 5G and wireline environments, the company said.
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The private 5G offering will cover more than 190 countries
NTT Ltd. is combining its fully managed private 5G and Edge Compute solutions with satellite connectivity provider SES’s medium earth orbit communications system — the O3b mPOWER — to offer Edge as a Service to enterprise...
The third part in a loose trilogy on the late rise of the IT crowd in the new private cellular space, following announcements by HPE and Cisco at MWC last month, and a direct followup to the Cisco entry a couple of weeks back;...
A snapshot from a session at Telco Cloud & Edge Forum this week, which asked about edge-oriented use cases in enterprises, and threw up a couple of interesting examples – which tell how computer vision, specifically, attached to edge-based cellular networks and computing systems,...
UK-based BT Group has further expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to collaborate on IoT industry solutions, cloud networking propositions, and 5G edge computing services for UK enterprise customers. It said the deal “targets” a $500 million revenue opportunity” to sell IoT...
News out of MWC a couple of weeks back that Cisco had teamed with NTT to get serious about big-ticket private 5G for multinational enterprises was somewhat overshadowed by rival HPE’s purchase of core network specialist Athonet to do the same. But that was...
Qualcomm brings multi-vendor automation and SMO capabilities to private networks with the Edgewise Suite
As Industry 4.0 concepts meant to optimize efficiency in sectors like manufacturing, utilities, mining and more gain interest and adoption, private networks, including 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi, are emerging as a...
Swedish telecoms group Telia Company has developed a new machine vision solution for inventory management in warehouses which runs on a hybrid (‘virtual’; semi-private) private 5G network. The project, part of its work with Finnish logistics group Transval, automatically tracks and reports on the...
900 MHz spectrum in hand, Anterix is building an ecosystem to enable digital transformation of utilities in the US
Anterix is around the halfway point of clearing its nationwide 900 MHz spectrum, and its focus on utilities is paying off with four customers in hand...
Ericsson will contribute a private 5G network for the Purdue Research Foundation to operate at the Purdue University Airport
Purdue University Airport, in collaboration with Ericsson and Saab, announced the deployment of a private 5G network which will serve as a “lab to life” proving...
Network design and services firm Betacom has developed a perimeter surveillance solution to run on private LTE and 5G networks in airports, warehouses, factories, and other venues. It has worked with Swedish cybersecurity networking outfit Axis Communications and US cybersecurity software firm Evolon on...
Core network specialist Druid Software has announced a deal with French neutral host operator and system integrator TDF to jointly provide private 5G systems to critical industry in France. The announcement is part of a charm offensive by the Irish firm both home and...
German chemical company BASF is to deploy a private 5G network at a facility in the Port of Antwerp in Belgium with the help of local networking specialist Citymesh. The development, which actually follows a number of cellular-linked Industry 4.0 trials in the area,...
Put a pin in the bombast and a rinse in the dazzle; if MWC is an industry waypoint on the telecoms road, then the 2023 version said private cellular, as a bountiful diversion, is probably just about on the horizon line. Unlike two years...
HFCL said that the private 5G collaboration will target verticals including manufacturing, retail, warehouse, mining, education, defence and smart city
Indian company HFCL, which focuses on digital networks for telcos, enterprises and governments, announced a collaboration with Microsoft to create converged private 5G solutions.
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'The market approach is chaotic, but it doesn't mean it’s overhyped:' Intel exec
A panel discussion at Mobile World Congress 2023 sought to answer one of the industry’s most burning questions: Is private wireless overhyped? The three panelists answered this question, first in simple terms...
As part of the deal, Bouygues Telecom’s 5G network and private network solutions will be coupled with Siemens France’s IoT solutions
French companies Bouygues Telecom Entreprises, Alten and Siemens France have signed a three-year partnership with the aim of developing solutions to boost industrial 5G...
Ericsson said its Private 5G provides 4G and 5G connectivity through its single server dual mode core
Swedish vendor Ericsson has inked a reseller agreement with South African company Comsol to provide its private 5G solution that will enable Comsol to expand its enterprise business...
Vapor IO/Open Grid Alliance on leveraging edge compute to digitally transform Las Vegas
Internet of Things (IoT) devices using cellular networks reached 2.7 billion connections in 2021, according to the November 2022 Ericsson Mobility Report, and by 2028 that figure is projected to increase to...
To propel Open RAN, vRAN and public and private 5G networks, Qualcomm is drawing on domain expertise in connectivity and low-power compute
Qualcomm again demonstrated the ongoing strength of its diversification push during Mobile World Congress with a number of partner announcements highlighting the semiconductor...
The private 5G market – or at least the hard-nosed Industry 4.0 end of it – has reached an “inflection point”, reckons global system integrator Kyndryl. So much so, the firm has had to move hard to keep up with demand. “Our biggest concern...
Late news out of MWC; Schneider Electric, Capgemini, and Qualcomm Technologies have worked together to develop an automated hoisting solution to attach to private 5G networks. The trio called it a “first-of-its-kind” solution; a prototype has been installed at Schneider Electric’s hoisting lab in...
Cisco and NTT announced a deal to collaborate on private 5G in the automotive, logistics, healthcare, retail, and public sectors. They said they will “co-innovate”, and combine to bring to market both “technology and managed services”. Specifically, they said they would combine NTT’s managed...
