Infrastructure

Qualcomm is teaming up with Capgemini to “unlock” private 5G for Industry 4.0, based on its new Release 16-capable 5G RAN platform and radio modem. Qualcomm and Capgemini will develop …

After all the false starts and funny looks, is it time to take MulteFire seriously? Nokia says so. And, as the mainstream telecoms market wakes up to the Finnish firm’s …

Network engineering, testing, and analytics company Umlaut has appointed Airspan Networks and Druid Software to build a private 5G network at its headquarters in Aachen, in Germany. The network will …

The LTE-based MulteFire standard, one of the pioneer technologies in the private cellular market, is alive and kicking – well, alive, anyway – and also mutating into something brand new, …

Sigfox operator iWire Connect has raised $34 million in Series A funding to build Sigfox networks in 12 countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. It has earmarked launches …

Busy Belgian private network provider and industrial connectivity specialist Citymesh has acquired local Sigfox operator ENGIE M2M. The firm said the addition of ultra-narrowband (UNB) low-power IoT connectivity rounds-out its …

Time sensitive networking (TSN), designed to manage latency between industrial devices in Ethernet networks, is essential if a new industrial-grade version of cellular-based 5G is to find its mark in …

California-based startup Celona has announced support for software-based embedded SIM (eSIM) technology to simplify device provisioning for private LTE and 5G networks. The firm has also announced it has joined …

Global revenues from the sale of radio equipment for private LTE and 5G networks will top $2 billion by 2025, with the balance tilting towards 5G by the end of …

Netherlands-based LoRaWAN network operator Everynet has partnered with tower company Crown Castle to introduce LoRaWAN in 36 cities in the US by the end of 2021. Everynet said the rollout …

Canada based performance analytics software company Accedian has joined the UK government’s 5G-ENCODE project, billed as the UK’s largest trial of industrial 5G. Accedian will introduce performance monitoring and assurance …

The industrial city of Kawasaki, in the greater Tokyo area, has signed with Japanese IT conglomerate Fujitsu to develop a new ‘smart city’ fabric using the latest connectivity, compute, and …

IBM has said it is undecided, as yet, about whether to offer 5G network management services to enterprises, despite commentators repeatedly suggesting the New York firm might yet shape up …

Germany-based aircraft services provider Lufthansa Technik has said its private 5G standalone (SA) trial network from Nokia, deployed at its facility in Hamburg, has been made into a permanent fixture. …

IoT traffic on latest-generation mobile ‘broadband’ 4G and 5G infrastructure will outrun IoT traffic on old-generation ‘broadband’ 3G and old-school 2G networks in 2021, reckons Ericsson. The terminology gets confusing, …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of its AWS Wavelength multi-access edge compute (MEC) service in the UK, on Vodafone’s 5G network. The setup embeds AWS compute …

Anritsu and InterDigital have combined on a new smart factory demo to showcase the “feasibility and readiness” of carrier-led 5G and multi-access edge compute (MEC) for Industry 4.0 use cases.  …

US private cellular provider Ondas Holdings, parent of Ondas Networks, has issued more than seven million shares in a public offering to raise $47 million for “working capital and general …

Cisco has announced a new portfolio of industrial 5G routers for edge networking setups, with support also for LTE, WI-Fi 6, as well as the open Wi-SUN (‘wireless smart utility …

Anterix has followed deals with Motorola and Nokia with a third contract for LTE equipment for private network deployments in the utilities sector, this time with Swedish vendor Ericsson. The …

Household appliances and electronics manufacturer Arçelik Global, owners of the Beko and Grundig brands, is to deploy the first private celluar network in Turkey, as an LTE-based setup with a …

Siemens has released its first ‘industrial 5G’ router, the Scalance MUM856-1, announced at the end of 2020, showcased at Hannover Messe in March, and trailed in these pages all through …

There is a burgeoning consensus that Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) and wireless capabilities will combine to unlock standards-based, scalable, and highly flexible use cases. Resting on the foundation of open …

Bosch has opened a new smart factory for silicon wafer production in Dresden, capital of the eastern German state of Saxony. The firm has invested around €1 billion in the …

Qualcomm is working with Dallas-based professional services and consulting firm Jacobs to deploy and test 5G-based cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology in the Atlanta suburb of Peachtree Corners, in Georgia in …