Germany-based industrial IT hardware company Phoenix Contact has produced the first industrial 5G router for private networks, using a 5G module from China-based Quectel, and with impetus and testing from Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson.
The trio had collaborated from an early stage, they said, to...
Network operators are looking to segment their private LTE and 5G offers for enterprises into gold, silver, and bronze tiers to distinguish between standalone systems using slices of public networks, managed services using privately-licensed ‘vertical’ spectrum, and plug-and-play installations running in unlicensed bands.
So says...
Telekom Slovenije is to build a 5G test network at the Port of Koper (Luka Koper) in Slovenia as a platform for new automation and intelligence tools to bring greater efficiency to port and shipping operations.
The European Union (EU) backed project, which goes under...
Federated Wireless has gained another $13.7 million in funding from current investors, to bolster the company's resources to deliver Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum-based private networks as well as leverage 6 GHz spectrum that the Federal Communications Commission is expected to soon open up...
Paris based system integrator Altran is working with London edge-cloud startup Ori Industries to promote federated multi-access edge computing (MEC) so developers can deploy Industry 4.0 solutions on private LTE and 5G networks, in any geography, and telecoms operators can serve industrial partners on...
Various countries are offering licensed millimeter wave 5G spectrum directly to private enterprises, and for good reason. Wifi hotspots are overloaded and cannot scale to meet the rapidly increasing demands for higher capacity and data speeds. For instance, with today’s COVID-19 quarantine and social...
Buried towards the bottom of the UK government’s announcement early last month of £65 million of new funding for rural and industrial 5G, part of a £200 million government fund for 5G testbeds in the UK, was detail about the country’s biggest industrial 5G...
German automotive giant BMW has confirmed it will apply for 5G spectrum licences in the 3.7-3.8 GHz industrial band in local factories at home on an ad hoc basis through the remainder of 2020, as use cases and experiments arise.
“Depending on the projects we...
Private industrial 5G will be at the heart of manufacturing production from 2021, Siemens has said, as the industrial giant continues to move ahead with test networks at its electronics works in Amberg and automotive centre in Nuremburg, both in Germany.
Both deployments use Siemens’...
Deutsche Telekom expects, in most cases, to manage private networks for enterprises, even if they are deployed in privately-owned spectrum, which is not licensed directly by the operator itself.
Following its deal with BMW last month to install a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’ at...
Deutsche Telekom has public-private ‘campus’ networking setups with various customers, offering a kind of proto-slicing, as a precursor to industrial 5G. It has so far announced deals with German lighting company OSRAM, German car parts maker ZF Group, and the RWTH research institute at...
CK Hutchison, owner of the Hutchison telecoms group in Asia and Three (3) mobile brand in Europe, has opened a centre of excellence to provide bespoke private LTE and 5G networks for large enterprises.
It cited as prime candidates for industrial LTE and 5G enterprises...
Phil Skipper, global head of IoT business development, Vodafone:
“The key question is what will rise and fall in 2020, in terms of digital transformation for industry. At the end of 2019, low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies, mobile private networks, and mobile edge computing are all...
Alejandro Cadenas, IoT strategy manager, Telefónica:
“Deployment of private networks is giving way to a radical change in industries, especially suited for campus-type industrial deployments like mines, ports, airports or manufacturing plants. Thanks to this connectivity technology, companies will work faster, safer and in a...
5G will only gets its wings in 2023, or thereabouts, when its full functionality is revealed in a standalone version of the new radio (NR) standard. That is when it will take flight, and change the world – or, at least, establish a control...
Siemens has followed country-mate Bosch to apply for spectrum licences in the 3.7-3.8 GHz band in Germany. The firm will seek to manage its own LTE and 5G networks in at least six ‘digital’ factories, it is understood.
Klaus Helmrich, chief executive of the company’s...
Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy opened a process through which prívate companies will be able to apply for private 5G licenses, the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry announced enterprises could apply for private 5G licences from November 21. Frequencies are...
What are the major trends that will shape the next decade of mobile technology? GSMA Intelligence lays out five in a new report.
According to the report, those trends include:
-Operators will intensify their pursuit of revenues that come from sources other than connectivity, which GSMA...
Microsoft and Nokia are offering a private LTE and IoT bundle for operators and enterprises. UK based BT is the first operator to resell the package, offered as a managed service.
The arrangement, which sees the Microsoft’s Azure based cloud and analytics offered with...
Test company Keysight Technologies has joined the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) to establish a test framework for industrial 5G networks and applications, and to assure certification of related industrial IoT components
The 5G-ACIA now has more than 50 members from across...
Both offer big benefits for modern enterprise
Much has been written about trends towards use of connected technology in modern industry. The fourth industrial revolution, Smart cities, IoT, and Industry 4.0 are all monikers for use of connected technologies to monitor and control processes, commerce...
Most currently 5G deployments are very much focused on delivering enhanced mobile broadband to consumers. But leveraging connectivity to digitize and transform industries is drawing significant interest from the telecom ecosystem given the trends around stagnant ARPU and slowing device upgrades. Combining high speeds,...
"5G is here now," Inseego CMO says
Ashish Sharma, CMO and EVP of IoT & Mobile Solutions at Inseego, shares his perspective on 5G development in Europe, including opportunities around consumer mobility, fixed wireless access and private networks for industrial enablement.
Q: Can you give me...
Deutsche Telekom is offering industrialists so-called ‘campus networks’, which offer a kind of proto-slicing as a pre-cursor to slicing-proper with 5G networks.
But its recent work in the Port of Hamburg with Nokia experimented with network-slicing proper, specifically for environmental monitoring, traffic control, and maintenance...
