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Verizon Business installs private 5G and neutral-host at Cummins plant in NY

Verizon Business, the international enterprise sales division of US carrier Verizon, has deployed an Ericsson-made private 5G and neutral host system for US engine manufacturer Cummins at its two-million square-foot production facility in Lakewood, west of Jamestown, in Chautauqua County in New York. The...

Private 5G gets bigger (and smaller) – why the hype is real

Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report from RCR Wireless about ‘private 5G in Industry 4.0 – hype versus reality’. It follows on from an intro section, trailed here previously. The full report extends the discussion further, and is available to...

Shared-usage tweaks give CBRS users 60% performance boost, says Federated Wireless

Enterprise customers using 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS spectrum for private and shared LTE/5G networks in coastal areas, where the navy has prioritised incumbent usage of the band, will be protected from service interruptions going forward. US spectrum access specialist Federated Wireless said the improvements to...

STC picks Celona for private 5G in the Middle East

Celona has a deal with STC (Saudi Telecommunication Company) Group in the Middle East on private 5G. The operator will use Celona’s 5G system to stand-up its digital-change sales in the mining, manufacturing, and logistics sectors. The pair had a “full-scale” automated guided vehicle...

Ooredoo Group, Nokia partner to deploy 5G private networks

Ooedoo and Nokia will work to develop and deploy 5G private networks for businesses operating across several industries Middle East telco Ooredoo Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Finnish vendor Nokia with the aim of upgrading business connectivity with 5G solutions. Under the...

5G/Wi-Fi, IT/OT in Industry 4.0 – it’s all way too simplistic, says Cisco

It seems like you can have the same conversation about Industry 4.0 whether AI is presented as the big kahuna in the tech-mix or hardly mentioned at all, like the elephant in the room. This conversation with Cisco, taped a couple of months ago...

Private cellular IoT to reach 108m factory connections by 2030

There will be 108 million IoT connections on private LTE (4G) and 5G networks in the manufacturing sector in 2030, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. Manufacturing will be the biggest market for private 5G-IoT, it said. In second, the transportation industry...

‘Every tech is hyped, but this is different’ – Siemens goes all-in on industrial AI

There’s something funny about a captain of industry (Industrie 4.0) scratching his head when his boiler breaks down at his French summer house. But this was the tale that Cedrik Neike, chief executive at Siemens Digital Industries, told Hannover Messe on Monday (April 22)...

Right way, wrong gear – 5G-ACIA sets plan to shift private 5G up a gear

The mood in the 5G Arena at Hannover Messe is muted, same as last year. All the buzz and excitement about private / industrial 5G at MWC, which seemed almost to bubble-over in the tight-knit halls of the Fira de Barcelona as the late...

Nokia bolsters Industry 4.0 portfolio with ‘micro-edge’ AI compute, video AI positioning

Hannover Messe, Germany: Nokia has introduced a new ‘micro-edge’ compute solution to process industrial AI/ML workloads on or adjacent to IoT sensor devices attached to private LTE/5G networks, and also to enterprise Wi-Fi networks. At the same time, it has introduced a new video...

“A long way from Silicon Valley” – operators get enterprise (and service), says Vodafone

Note, this article is a continuation of a previous post, which can be found here. Funny thing about telecoms, and telcos specifically, so often derided in the Industry 4.0 market for not ‘getting’ enterprise, is that they have listened and changed, arguably, and are selling...

Boots on the ground – who’s who in the supply of private 5G networks

There was a period, a couple of years ago, when the telecoms ecosystem talked about ‘priming’ the supply of private 5G networks into enterprises. It was presented as a winner-takes-all game, to an extent, and mobile operators, in particular, said they expected to command...

Tampa Electric to test LTE gear with STA licence ahead of big Anterix build-out

Tampa Electric (TECO) has applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US for a six-month Special Temporary Authority (STA) license in the 936.5-939.5 MHz spectrum band, running to the start of December, to build an “experimental” private LTE network using Ericsson gear....

MFA Webinar: Why should your enterprise deploy a private network?

Enterprises around the world are deploying 3GPP-based private networks to gain the advantages of improved capacity and coverage, greater control and on-premise data security, and better predictability and more reliable performance.The Alliance for private networks – MFA – is championing the global industry adoption...

Bringing vRAN anywhere with liquid cooling

There’s a disconnect between network infrastructure miniaturization and air-cooling techniques; liquid cooling is key to delivering vRAN for public and private networks Operators globally are undertaking major radio access network (RAN) modernization projects with an emphasis on new distributed and open architectures and RAN virtualization...

Private cellular: A connectivity solution suited for the future of warehousing and logistics (Reader Forum)

As enterprises across the world look to bring their supply chains into the future, they're implementing tenets of Industry 4.0 into their operations. The result has been Logistic 4.0, a digital transformation framework, that at its foundation, requires connectivity enabling Internet of Things (IoT)...

Editorial Webinar: Securing the edge -where 5G meets the enterprise

As wireless communication technologies continue to advance at a rapid pace, the emergence of 5G has become a game-changer, especially in enterprise environments where edge-based private networks are on the rise.On April 24th, RCR Wireless News is joined by F5 and KPMG for an insightful webinar diving into the critical...

Kagan: US Cellular now offers private wireless for the enterprise

Private wireless will work with, not replace Wi-Fi and public wireless US Cellular is focused on growing their business in the private wireless space. They may be the largest wireless carrier in the USA after Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T. They see a new growth opportunity...

Private 5G startup Ataya strikes OEM deal with RAN provider MosoLabs

US-based private 5G startup Ataya has appointed fellow California firm MosoLabs, producing radios and devices for shared and private networks, as the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for its Chorus-branded line of indoor and outdoor private 5G radio access points. The Chorus product is presented...

Private 5G – hype versus reality (regarding a mess of market forecasts)

Note, this article forms the intro section to a new editorial report from RCR Wireless about ‘private 5G – hype versus reality’. The full report is available to download for free here. It might be taken, as well, with new numbers (just in; April...

Private 4G/5G RAN sales jumped 40% in 2023 – “massive opportunity”, says Dell’Oro

New numbers, just in (further discussion here); analyst group Dell’Oro Group says private 4G/5G RAN revenues jumped around 40 percent in 2023, compared to 2022, with Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei leading global sales during “this initial phase” – and Nokia, Ericsson, and Samsung dominating...

Private 5G vendors in trouble – Casa goes bust; Airspan gets late reprieve

Seems those sketches of Spain were about right. US-based core network provider Casa Systems, prominent on the private networks scene, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in a court in Delaware, and agreed a deal at the same time to sell its 5G...

Myths and legends – three lies the private 5G sector tells

Or three lies it has told, and is being forced to take back.  Ask Future Technologies – which appears, directly or indirectly, to have its fingerprints across every-other big private 5G deployment in the US – about the hype in the market, and it will...

Twinned, tweaked and optimized – five principles of good private 5G design

As we heard last week, good 5G is bad 5G without careful network design – especially with private 5G in complex enterprise venues. This was the line from Nazim Choudhury, director of market development at Canada-based iBwave Solutions, which sells design software for all...