As novel industrial technologies go, Nokia’s deal with Swisscom Broadcast, the Swiss operator’s enterprise-facing security and analytics arm, to deploy a network of 300 drones for emergency services and industrial applications feels significant – for both firms, as well as for the drone sector,...
US gold mining company Newmont Corporation is to junk Wi-Fi in favour of 5G on its remote controlled and autonomous machinery at its major mining operations in Australia, Africa, Latin America, and North America. The decision comes after a private 5G trial with Ericsson...
Swisscom Broadcast is working with Nokia to deploy a nationwide drone network of 300 drones for the emergency services, public safety, and private industrial sectors. It follows the same model as Nokia’s drone rollout in Belgium with Citymesh, and is expected to pass it...
The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) has appointed Ericsson to offer private 4G and 5G networks to small- and mid-sized electric cooperatives (co-ops) across the US. NRTC is leading the consortium, which also includes telecoms and energy utility Southern Linc, offering core hosting solutions,...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has beefed up its cyber defence offer for enterprise networks with the addition of behavioural analytics to its detection and response capabilities and zero-trust access to its campus network proposition. The latter covers local-area edge networks, including its private 4G...
For this project, Deutsche Telekom deployed a 5G network with a special connection and an edge data center
German carrier Deutsche Telekom has deployed its technology at the publicly funded "AutoLog" project in the port of Emden to introduce automation into the facility' workflows at...
A couple of interesting-sounding mission-critical slicing exercises by mobile operators in Europe in the last week or so got RCR Wireless to thinking about whether the slow rollout of standalone 5G (5G SA) in national network infrastructure has reached a point where it is...
Want more private 4G/5G market forecasts? Of course you do, and market research firm Kaleido Intelligence has come up with a humdinger: enterprises will spend over $7 billion per year on private 4G/5G networks by 2028, it says. Which sounds like a lot; but...
Vodafone has said enterprise customers in the UK now have all the necessary cellular-based IoT tools at their disposal, after it switched on LTE-M services in its home market. The operator, which has hitherto steered customers looking to connect battery-powered IoT monitoring applications onto...
Digging into this new Cisco survey about the state of networking in the Industry 4.0 sector, which says the industrial c-suite is being driven to distraction by the risk and reward of artificial intelligence (AI), reveals certain things. They are hardly revelatory; but, again,...
Germany-based managed system integrator Xantaro Group has been recruited by US private networks specialist Celona to sell its private 5G system into European enterprises. Celona joins Nokia, at least, in its roster of private 5G products. It flagged the viability of the Celona system...
Austria-based critical communications provider Frequentis has taken a slice of Drei Austria’s national public 5G network in its home country to develop and test applications for public safety and emergency response control centres. The setup has also seen Drei Austria, in combination with parent...
Port operators APM Terminals and ENNA Group have tapped Deutsche Telekom subsidiary Hrvatski Telekom for a ‘private’ slice of its public 5G network at their joint-venture development at the new Port of Rijeka, set to be the largest shipping port in Croatia when it...
In all the to-and-fro last week about how to size the private 4G/5G market, mostly following the quarterly results from Ericsson and Nokia, an email exchange with the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), which seeks to keep score of it, threw certain perennial aspects...
UK-headquartered shared network specialist Boldyn Networks is to design and build a private 5G network at the Port of Blyth in Northumberland in the UK. The new infrastructure, based on an HPE/Athonet core network (and likely an Airspan radio network), will underpin a new...
Finnish vendor Nokia has added some colour to its quarterly private 4G/5G enterprise sales, after not saying much at all in its official results announcement last week. The firm added around 30 new enterprise ‘logos’ in the three months to the end of June...
The university will use the 5G network to create and test its own xApps, which improve energy efficiency and control of the network and its components
IS-Wireless, which provides private 5G solutions, announced the deployment of its private 5G network at the University of York...
NTT Data, the global system integrator division of Japanese group NTT, has introduced a new edge AI platform that “integrates and synthesises” data from sensors, devices, and systems in enterprise venues to flow into task-specific industrial AI models. It is being offered as a...
More, here, from Ericsson about private 5G, after the Swedish vendor replied formally to questions in email from RCR Wireless about its enterprise strategy; its responses arrived after Monday’s post on the subject, and go further in terms of the trends it sees in...
In a briefing room at MWC in Barcelona at the end of February, when presented with the idea that, for all its successes with the mobile operator crowd, Nokia is running away with it in the enterprise space, Ericsson responded by saying something about...
Note, this article forms a (concluding) part of a recent editorial report from RCR Wireless about ‘private 5G in Industry 4.0 – hype versus reality’. The full report, which extends the discussion further, is available to download here – for free.
The cultural approach to...
MasOrange said that the deployment of this 5G virtual private network will require a total investment of 3.6 million euros over the next five years
The new private 5G Standalone (SA) network deployed at the Port of Barcelona, Spain by Spanish telecom group MasOrange is...
Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel has said 66 licences have been granted so far in the country for enterprise-owned private 5G networks in the country. Thirty-four licences have been issued for spectrum at 2.39-2.4 GHz (2,390 MHz to 2,400 MHz), 30 have licences been issued...
Note, this article forms a (middle) part of a recent editorial report from RCR Wireless about ‘private 5G in Industry 4.0 – hype versus reality’. The full report, which extends the discussion further, is available to download here – for free.
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