Crossing the divide between public and private cellular network technologies occurs when there is a need to extend the feature-rich public services offered by mobile network operators deep into the enterprise network. Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) are one such well-established solution that is used...
In researching a new editorial report, out this month, about the state of private 5G in Industry 4.0, RCR Wireless asked around about the biggest impediments to make enterprise-owned 5G scale in industrial venues. Among the responses, Nokia and Siemens separately compiled a list...
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There is a loose 80/20 rule...
Nokia Bell Labs, the research arm of Finnish network vendor Nokia, has joined with UAE-based mobile operator e&, formerly Etisalat Group, to create AI-based use cases for industrial sectors. The pair have signed a non-binding 12-month Industry 4.0 research-and-development (R&D) deal, with a particular...
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Private 4G/5G security startup OneLayer has followed tie-ups with key network vendors Nokia and Ericsson with a multi-year deal with US investor-owned energy provider Evergy to manage and secure OT assets on its private cellular network. Evergy, based in Kentucky in the US, has...
A new “forecast report” by analyst house Dell’Oro Group, says revenue from the sale of radio access network (RAN) equipment for private 4G (LTE) and 5G deployments in the global enterprise market grew by 24 percent in the second quarter of 2024. The result...
More to follow next week, with coverage of a wide-ranging interview with the firm’s enterprise chiefs, but here is the news from Ericsson’s enterprise industry event in Boston today (September 12), covering the brand and product refresh it talked about at the start of...
The great challenge for private 5G vendors and integrators in industrial sectors is to design solutions that are entirely unique and appropriate for the purpose of all kinds of different enterprises and applications, and at the same time to offer systems that can be...
“I don't have any one-liners for you this time,” says Wienke Giezeman, almost apologetically, as if our periodic chats about the state of the IoT market are supposed to produce zingers and humdingers, and headlines that write themselves. Which they aren’t, even if they...
Vodafone has deployed an all-edge private 5G network in pilot mode at the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant in Czechia for power generation conglomerate ČEZ Group. The UK-headquartered firm called it a “European first”, as a 5G-based private network at a European nuclear site. The...
Nokia is working with Industry 4.0 giant Rockwell Automation to test private 5G in standalone (SA) mode in the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band in the US. Specifically, they are looking at private 5G for control and automation of industrial assets using industrial Ethernet (EtherNet/IP)...
Itron's testing will use leased low-band spectrum plus base stations from four vendors
Utility metering giant Itron has gotten the go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission to test private cellular in low-band spectrum to support advanced metering.
In its description of the project, as part of...
This is a postscript to the news-post yesterday (August 14) about a mad rush of Industry 4.0 data over the next five years, which ABI Research forecasts will multiply in industrial venues from some unknown (or un-shared, in the press note) start-point today, where...
As industries grapple with the complexities of Industry 4.0, many are still in the experimental phase. Yet, the dawn of the 5th Industrial Revolution is already upon us, with AI poised to work hand-in-hand with humans. But are businesses aware that the next wave of innovation is already gathering...
One thing seems clear, after a couple of announcements in recent weeks and several years in the doldrums: network slicing is coming, and it will make a new virtue of nationally-available 5G networks for enterprises. Last week, the analyst community debunked a few myths...
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...
More than half of workers in critical industrial sectors have experienced “severe security incidents” that have led to data loss or system downtime, and industrial IoT devices have been blamed. A new poll by US operator Verizon of 600-odd executives in charge of security...
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...
