Semtech opens-up and makes-free its LoRaWAN Academy Semtech, the Californian chip-maker that owns and licenses the LoRa technology, is offering free educational modules via its LoRaWAN Academy for students, engineers, …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">NIB: Semtech offers free LoRaWAN training; Digital Colony buys small-cell firm iWireless; Soracom announces IoT funding >
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AT&T on reducing cellular IoT costs and complexities for developers: “Time to revenue is shorter” >
Another from the MWC 2019 vaults, which has so far slipped through the gaps of a hectic quarter at Enterprise IoT Insights. This time, we catch up with Cameron Coursey, …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Private LTE set to step out into the spotlight (Reader Forum) >by Reader Forumby Reader Forum
With the increasingly global adoption of LTE/4G technology, greater opportunities for private LTE networks are emerging. According to ABI Research, by 2025 those sectors using private LTE will create a …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Verizon drops price of Sequans LTE-M/NB-IoT chips to $6.50 for ThingSpace customers >
The original Monarch system-in-package (SiP) from French chipmaker Sequans Communications has been made available Verizon’s ThingSpace IoT ‘accelerator programme’ for just $6.50. The new price point is a significant advance …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Volkswagen to build private 5G networks from 2020; invites tenders from kit vendors >
German automotive manufacturer Volkswagen will start construction of its own 5G mobile networks in 122 factories in Germany in 2020, according to a report in Wirtschaftswoche, the German business magazine. …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Deutsche Telekom: “People underestimate what it takes to manage a network” >
Deutsche Telekom said private networks are easy to talk about, but hard to manage, at Hannover Messe 2019 last week, swatting away the perceived jeapordy for operators in the industrial …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AT&T talks cities: “We wouldn’t do it if it didn’t make sense, but it’s not about money” >
The craziness of the conference season, which has seen Enterprise IoT Insights cover both MWC 2019 and Hannover Messe 2019 in recent weeks, means content falls through the gaps. Sometimes, …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Orange on URLLC (and private 5G): “The economics favour public networks” >
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled “Orange on LPWA: ‘If there’s no improvement in the radio, we’ll keep the same system’.” Click here to go to …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">The 3G network sunset and its implications for IoT >
5G has officially arrived, and as the new comes in, the old goes out – and that’s as true for networks as for anything else. The 3G network sunset is …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Orange on LPWA: “If there’s no improvement in the radio, we’ll keep the same system” >
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled “Orange on IoT: ‘We’re different; we take innovation to the customer’”. Click here to go to the previous article. The …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Private LTE: New opportunities for an existing model >by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill
AURORA, COLORADO–Private LTE may be attracting attention, but private cellular networks are not a new model, according to industry experts at a Besen Group seminar on private LTE ahead of …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Orange on IoT: “We’re different; we take innovation to the customer” >
Having effectvely reduced the discipline of network operations to an elaborate marketing exercise, to sell look-alike SIM cards and airtime bundles, it seems the new 5G era has telecoms operators …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Automatic for the people – why private networks are public affairs (impressions of Hannover Messe 2019) >
In Germany, they’ve made a verb out of the UK’s protracted divorce from the European Union: ‘to Brexit’ – sich verabschieden, aber nicht gehen (to say goodbye, but fail to …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Does who you buy a private network from make it more private? >
HANNOVER, Germany–Rival network infrastructure vendors Nokia and Ericsson staked out slightly different stances regarding how to bring private networks to industries at Mobile World Congress. The conversation on what makes …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Nokia sees private networks as an LTE-to-5G transition >
HANNOVER, Germany–Nokia has made clear it sees private networks for industrial users as a market segment with huge potential. And, this week at the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">“Industry needs both public and private networks,” says Deutsche Telekom >
The operator community has been widely criticised for its failure to serve industrial markets with high quality connectivity, acknowledged Deutsche Telekom at Hannover Messe 2019. The German operator has addressed …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Where is public safety LTE being explored around the world? >by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill
The FirstNet-AT&T partnership is just one example of public safety LTE The standardization of mission-critical features in LTE has helped to foster a number of global efforts to use LTE …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Bosch targets €1bn gains on the blood-rush of 5G to its factory nervous system >
Bosch has raised more than €1.5 billion in revenue from the implementation of Industry 4.0 techniques in its own factories, as well as its customers’ factories, during the past four …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Putting together the pieces of 5G testing: mmWave, sub-6 GHz and more >
As 5G development and deployment continues to ramp up, the necessary testing for 5G chipsets, devices and equipment presents a number of new challenges at both millimeter wave and …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Anritsu Webinar: Field Testing Next-Generation 5G Deployments >
2019 will be the year 5G finally starts to become a reality with large-scale field deployments. As the industry starts to converge on installation and maintenance best practices, the next-generation …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Transit Wireless CEO on network priorities: Growth, scale and sustainability >
Melinda White joined Transit Wireless as chief executive officer in May 2018. The company, which serves as the network provider for New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. MTA operates in …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Nokia builds private LTE and 5G network for German car industry >
Nokia is building private LTE and 5G coverage for the ARENA2036 automotive research factory in Stuttgart in collaboration with members of the German car and manufacturing industries, including Daimler, Bosch …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Telefónica takes three-pronged approach to private networks, unlicensed spectrum >
Among telecoms operators grappling with the concept of private industrial networks, and ways to coexist with enterprises seeking control of their own LTE and 5G infrastructure, Telefónica cuts an assured …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Bosch proclaims 5G, OPC-UA, and TSN, as Industry 4.0 finally gets ‘practical’ >
Incoming 5G technologies will be key for higher reliability and lower latency of industrial automation processes, said Bosch Rexrouth, the automation technology unit of German industrial giant Bosch Group, ahead …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">LTE and 5G for industrial IoT: What are private networks, and how do they work? >
Private cellular networks are standard 3GPP-based cellular networks offering a combination of low-power wide-area (LPWA), broadband LTE, and even ‘massive’-scale, ultra-reliable 5G connectivity for exclusive use by private parties. They …