As we look forward to 2021, we must also reflect on this past year. In addition to tragic human cost, the pandemic cast a spotlight on the ability of business and society to cope with previously unimagined challenges.
For industries such as manufacturing, supply chain,...
Aerospace and defence company Saab has deployed a factory-wide private 5G network at a manufacturing plant in Sweden. The facility in Linköping, in the south of the country, produces ‘aerostructures’, notably for Airbus and Boeing.
The deployment has been organised by Swedish tech consultancy Combitech...
Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report on the state of digital change in the healthcare sector (see image below). The report – Challenges with Digital Change in Healthcare – from low-level IoT sensing to big-bang 5G and AI, and how...
Finnish vendor Nokia announced the ‘Nokia Local 5G Technology Partnership’, a new strategic alliance to accelerate adoption of 5G-based enterprise industry solutions in Japan.
Members of the new alliance include Conexio, Hitachi Kokusai, NS (Nippon Steel) Solutions, Omron and Sharp, the vendor said.
Alliance partners will...
Deutsche Telekom has deployed a 5G ‘campus’ network in the 3.6 GHz spectrum band for University Hospital Bonn (UKB). The setup uses the German carrier’s public cellular network, optimised with new radio installs on the university campus.
The pair said the network allows for UKB...
It is a little early, some way ahead of the standardisation schedule, but the first (?) market-sizing forecast is in for Release-17 era ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), pegged as the blue-riband version of 5G, geared towards more rarefied industrial change.
The crystal ball gazers over...
How is Nokia doing with private networks for enterprises? Pretty well, and probably better than Ericsson, choruses the analyst community in response. Except its strategy is too narrow, its offer is too inflexible, and its competition – beyond its traditional vendor peers, and beyond...
Nokia announced that it will deploy industrial-grade 5G Standalone (SA) private wireless networking for the 5G4KMU project, which spans five leading research centers in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in Germany.
Once the project is fully completed, it will comprise the largest 5G campus-based networking deployment...
Vodafone has put-live its multi-access edge computing (MEC) offer on its LTE and 5G infrastructure in the UK, with data storage and processing functionality from AWS. The 5G-MEC combo is being used in a number of industrial-IoT style pilots in the UK; further MEC...
There has been a paradigm shift when it comes to who is involved in delivering enterprise network connectivity; Catherine Sbeglia chats with Athonet and Nokia about the unfolding landscape.
Private cellular networks are seen by many as a major opportunity to set up bespoke...
Russian mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) and Swedish network vendor Ericsson are to deploy a private LTE network for Anglo-Russian mining company Polymetal. The deployment is at Polymetal’s Nezhdaninskoye gold deposit in the Republic of Sakha , in the far-east of Russia. The network...
Bosch has put live a private 5G network with Nokia at its factory in Stuttgart-Feuerbach, and confirmed another at its research campus in Renningen. The firm said it will “gradually” deploy 5G in all 250 of its factories around the world.
Bosch has been arguably...
Rohde & Schwarz has installed a private 5G network from Nokia at its plant in Teisnach, Germany. The network test company wants to run the rule over cellular-enabled Industry 4.0 applications in a dedicated 5G setup. Nokia is involved in the testing, too; the...
Germany-based industrial IoT specialist MYNXG has recruited Nokia to deploy a private 5G campus network at its development centre Nuremburg to run the rule over the technology as a platform for industrial-grade networking and integrate with its own IoT platform offering.
The company said it...
French electronics manufacturer Lacroix Group has appointed Orange to deploy an indoor 5G network from Ericsson at a factory in France to run the rule over its value as a springboard for Industry 4.0, and as a foundation stone for its ‘flagship’ new ‘factory-of-the-future’.
Lacroix...
Private cellular specialist Citymesh has struck a deal with Proximus to offer mobile and fixed telecom services on the Proximus network in Belgium, running alongside localised cellular services in its own spectrum.
The agreement on mobile services extends to a wholesale-based mobile virtual network operator...
Telstra and Ericsson have struck a deal to bundle localised edge-based 5G connectivity and compute functions for enterprises in Australia. The pair are looking to develop a reusable “edge cloud solution”, out of a test model deployed already with an unnamed financial services company,...
A1 Austria is working with Nokia to deploy private LTE and 5G networks for enterprises in Austria. The pair have already worked together to deploy private wireless campus networks in Austria for Vienna Airport, automotive manufacturer Magna Steyr, and a government-funded 5G Playground in...
NEC Corporation has opened a mobility test centre in Japan to develop autonomous driving technologies and intelligent transportation systems. The setup uses a private 5G network running high-speed video analytics to help vehicles connect with and navigate through traffic and road infrastructure.
The new Mobility...
German chemicals company BASF and Spanish telecommunications infrastructure and services operator Cellnex Telecom have signed an agreement to install what Cellnex says will be the first private network based on 5G technology in the Spanish chemical industry.
The pilot project will also be one of...
The number of industrial IoT connections will double in volume (up by 107 percent) in the next five years, going from 17.7 billion in 2020 to 36.8 billion in 2025; the manufacturing sector will contribute 22 billion of these, or about 60 percent of...
U.K. carrier BT and Belfast Harbour have signed a partnership to build a 5G ecosystem within the Port of Belfast.
BT said that the partnership will deliver a series of 5G-led innovations to accelerate Belfast Harbour’s digital transformation.
Under the terms of the partnership, BT will...
Orange has announced new partners and revealed the results of new use cases to test private industrial-grade 5G at the Port of Antwerp in Belgium, the second largest port in Europe. It has also said the port testbed will inform its wider industrial 5G...
Electronics manufacturer Inventec has deployed a 5G standalone (5G SA) network at its plant in Taiwan, to bring automation and intelligence to its production line. The setup uses networking software from Affirmed Networks, newly-acquired by Microsoft.
The setup is billed as the first software-only 5G...
