BROWSING: LTE

“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 these complaints, and the industrial sector’s move to deploy private networks outside of operators’...

Where is public safety LTE being explored around the world?

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 for public safety. The U.S.' Firstnet project is one, but there are a number of...

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 years, it has said. The company has set an incremental revenue target of €1...

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 sub-6 GHz frequencies. “For a lot of people, 5G millimeter wave over-the-air testing is a...

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 of test equipment is needed to support the unique technology used in 5G networks...

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 a 5,000-square-mile area in New York City, Long Island, southeaster New York state and...

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 and TRUMPF. Nokia will provide full private 4G/LTE and 5G New Radio coverage for the...

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 figure. It has been developing its strategy around private networks for 18 months at...

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 of the Hannover Messe 2019 next week. Bosch reckons the so-called Industry 4.0 movement, capturing...

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 are deployed and managed separately of public cellular networks, but function in the same way....

US officials not explaining why Huawei poses a security risk: AT&T CEO

  Randall Stephenson said that European carriers who had used Huawei for 4G are stuck with the Chinese vendor U.S. officials are failing to provide concrete details about the risks of implementing telecom equipment from Chinese vendors, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said during an event hosted...

The supply chain is dead; long live the demand chain! How AI is tilting the balance between supply and demand

For digital transformation of the supply chain, artificial intelligence (AI) is effectively the only game in town. This is because it is the only technological discipline that knits together a chain of supply, making its parts work in concert to bring intelligence across its...

LTE docks at Oulu, as Nokia and compatriots go mob-handed on private networks

Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a five-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Oulu, also in Finland. The project will start with the establishment of a private LTE network, attaching to internet...

Vodafone Idea strikes deal with Nokia for network upgrade in India

  The European vendor will install several technologies including Single RAN, massive MIMO and small cells Indian carrier Vodafone Idea has inked a partnership Nokia for the deployment of a LTE network across multiple service areas. As part of the agreement, Nokia will deploy Single RAN Advanced,...

ADLINK preps first micro-edge AI solution for LTE small cell poles and 5G radios

ADLINK Technology and Illinois-based manufacturer Charles Industries have demonstrated the industry’s first micro-edge low-latency AI solution that can be co-located on LTE small cell poles or with emerging 5G radios. The California-based edge solution provider has also announced a deal with Google Cloud to integrate...

SK Telecom, Samsung complete 4G-5G network dual connectivity test

  The South Korean telco also unveiled its Mobile Edge Computing Open Platform for enterprise customers SK Telecom and Samsung Electronics have completed a network device interoperability test that applies dual connectivity technology, using both 4G and 5G networks provided by Samsung. This technology is also known...

Private networks and public slices will combine in hybrid industrial 5G, says Nokia

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Industrial companies are building private networks because they have to, says Nokia’. Click here to go to the previous article.  Where were we? Oh yes: part-way through a narrative about the desire of industry to...

Sequans Introduces Monarch 2: The Second Generation of the World’s Leading LTE for IoT Chip Platform

  At Mobile World Congress, LTE for IoT chip leader Sequans introduced Monarch 2, which is the second generation of its world-leading LTE-M and NB-IoT chip platform, Monarch. Monarch 2 is built on three years of Sequans’ exclusive and field-proven experience with first-generation Monarch, which has...

Sequans adapts LTE chips for satellite

Sequans works with aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin to adapt LTE chips to communicate with satellite systems Sequans is modifying its LTE chipsets to be able to directly communicate with satellite systems, in a partnership with Lockheed Martin. Lockheed developed an LTE-to-satellite specification, and Sequans...

Industrial companies are building private networks because they have to, says Nokia

Industrial companies will invest in their own private LTE and 5G networks because the business case for digital change is irresistible, and because they want control of their own infrastructure. This leaves operators, betting on new revenue from enabling industrial transformation, in the cold,...

Demystifying cellular patents and licensing Part 1: How cellular standards are created

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles that explores the sometimes obtuse process of standardizing, patenting and licensing cellular technologies.  Answers to the questions you always wondered but were afraid to ask Patents spark joy in the eyes of the innovators! Patents...

Building an open, interoperable RAN breeds innovation, competition

  SOLiD joins O-RAN Alliance paves the way for transition from LTE to 5G As operators around the world continue to invest in gigabit-class LTE in tandem with early 5G NR-based networks, new more open Radio Access Network architectures are emerging to enable flexible, dense deployments...

Private networks, guaranteed service, total control – “We are proving 5G for Industry 4.0,” says Vodafone

Vodafone will use a range of private networking options to serve industrial verticals, it has said, as it develops its advanced LTE and emerging 5G proposition for enterprises. These options include spot usage of unlicensed LTE, localised usage of public LTE, and dedicated slices...

Robust LTE provides strong foundation for 5G

  Huawei 5G strategy marked by commercial end-to-end availability Operators are continuing to invest in gigabit-class LTE while deploying early non-standalone 5G networks leveraging those 4G investments and paving the way for more advanced 5G services as standards progress and networks become more ubiquitous. Speaking with RCR...