As 5G continues its evolution toward broad digital enablement of the enterprise, the proliferation of artificial intelligence and machine learning in networks will be a crucial part of service providers’ strategies. For infrastructure, increasingly automated deployment, configuration and management accelerates time-to-revenue as closed technology...
LAA proved a major boom for operators looking to max out the capabilities of LTE networks. Similarly, MulteFire sparked significant interest in using cellular in unlicensed for private networking purposes.
Now, as 5G is evolving and scaling, bringing the latest generation of cellular into unlicensed...
After its unprecedented debut, 5G is now well poised to not only improve its already supercharged performance but also adopt new enhancements and techniques that enable it to expand its reach beyond traditional broadband services. 3GPP Rel. 16 brings new concepts such as Integrated...
With advances in Wi-Fi and cellular technology running parallel to each other, enterprises are encountering more and more options when it comes to building a network. As network architecture and topology becomes more flexible, many enterprises are left wondering what the best solution to...
The vast majority of mobile network use comes from indoors -- and providing good coverage will be a challenge for 5G, in millimeter-wave bands and even in the mid-band. How is the industry addressing this challenge?
RCR Wireless News looks at the options for achieving...
In this report, learn how manufacturing leaders are using digital thread technology to analyze and improve enterprise value streams in near real time.
Further, gain insights into how the powerful combination of digital twins--the digital blueprint of machines, controls, and processes--and digital threads can unlock...
To provide those multi-gigabit data rates 5G has promised, millimeter wave is a key piece of the spectrum puzzle. But, given its challenging propagation characteristics, operators have to take a thoughtful approach to deploying millimeter wave outdoors.
As early deployments in stadiums and arenas have...
It’s one thing to know where something is, it’s another to know how its contents have been treated – whether they are frozen, unfrozen, damaged, dropped, lost or stolen. Asset tracking and asset management are a boom industry, and a foundation stone for industrial...
5G is a fast-evolving, impactful technology that, beyond previous generations of cellular, promises a new era of connectivity-enabled business processes and outcomes. New developments in technology and opportunities in spectrum availability will enable 5G to live up to the potential of ubiquitous high-capacity, low-latency...
Digital threads and digital twins are the foundation stones for digital transformation. In manufacturing, they enable ways to assess processes and products in a virtual environment – without the need for physical iterations, and with huge impacts in terms of cost, efficiency, productivity, and...
The true benefits of 5G will be realized with massive scale, something that operators will have to pay mightily to achieve. In carrier-led effort to shift network economics in their favor, the open RAN ecosystem has flourished in recent years and is poised for...
The telecommunications industry is facing a major workforce problem and it couldn't come at a worse time. Just as operators are embarking on multi-year capex cycles to build out 5G, a lack of skilled workers could potentially be a bottleneck.
As such, test and...
Standalone 5G represents a new era of data capacity, localized compute and bespoke services. But building a completely new network while maintaining focus on existing operations is a challenging and potentially risky process.
As operators scale out 5G coverage in 2020, what's the technological and...
Connectivity for large venues is a consummate challenge only exacerbated by growth in data consumption and evolution in cellular and Wi-Fi technologies.
When considering a venue investment, 5G and Wi-Fi 6 isn't an "or" consideration, rather an "and" scenario where both flavors to high-capacity connectivity...
Commercial CBRS deployments have officially kicked off, with a healthy device and equipment ecosystem to support the three-tiered spectrum sharing framework.
The next big step for the technology is the Priority Access License auction set for late June 2020. So, who is using CBRS and...
Emergency responders are increasingly incorporating the use of mobile broadband into their daily operations, from apps that allow them to complete paperwork without returning to the station, to wearable cameras and incorporating security video surveillance.
What are some of the innovative uses for mobile broadband...
Analytics and automation are helping to transform operations and processes in factories. But how do you change workers and working practices? Well, augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) can help.
By placing staff into virtual models / digital twins of production line tasks and...
5G is billed as the connectivity fabric that will support a new era of consumer and enterprise experiences. But, in the context of smart buildings, 5G is part of a larger equation that also encompasses artificial intelligence and the internet of things.
The combination of...
As digital services evolve and users continue to demand faster speeds and higher connectivity, network densification is proving to be a key driver for enabling successful 5G networks. Through the process of increasing available network capacity through the addition of more cell sites, 5G...
Closing the urban/rural digital divide has been a telecom policy focus for years, and it has been part of the conversation around everything from Congressional funding to the merger of T-Mobile US and Sprint.
So what is the state of deployment? What programs are in...
To fully capture the potential value of low latency 5G connections, computing has to be localized at the edge of the network. The combination of 5G and edge computing provides the technology to deliver real-time services.
Given the monumental investment delivering pervasive 5G requires, what...
Analytics and automation are helping to transform operations and processes in factories. But how do you change workers and working practices? Well, augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) can help.
By placing staff into virtual models / digital twins of production line tasks and...
The vision of 5G is cloud-native networks automatically delivering capacity on-demand. The reality, however, is that most operators are taking an incremental approach to cloudification and trying to understand where to direct capex given the need for holistic modernization in addition to...
The vision of 5G is cloud-native networks automatically delivering capacity on-demand. The reality, however, is that most operators are taking an incremental approach to cloudification and trying to understand where to direct capex given the need for holistic modernization in addition to...
