Paris based system integrator Altran is working with London edge-cloud startup Ori Industries to promote federated multi-access edge computing (MEC) so developers can deploy Industry 4.0 solutions on private LTE and 5G networks, in any geography, and telecoms operators can serve industrial partners on...
Cisco, Altiostar, WWT creating vRAN hardware/software/services bundle to drive 5G deployment
Building a virtualized radio access network built of best-of-breed components made interoperable through the work of groups like the O-RAN Alliance and Telecom Infra Project is seen as a way to drive 5G scale...
Various countries are offering licensed millimeter wave 5G spectrum directly to private enterprises, and for good reason. Wifi hotspots are overloaded and cannot scale to meet the rapidly increasing demands for higher capacity and data speeds. For instance, with today’s COVID-19 quarantine and social...
The O-RAN is looking to revolutionize the way wireless communications systems are built. Their core tenants of using virtualized networks, white box hardware, and standardized interfaces aim to promote openness and innovation in 5G systems.
DSS key piece of operator plans to scale 5G
Major operators around the world have tested and publicly discussed their plans to use dynamic spectrum sharing to rapidly scale 5G coverage by enabling simultaneous transmission of LTE and 5G New Radio in the same band....
German car giant BMW will invest €30 billion in “future-oriented” technologies during the next five years. The group has confirmed it will expand a blockchain pilot for purchasing front lights to suppliers of other car parts.
The announcements, made at the end of last month,...
Chinese carrier China Unicom and Huawei jointly announced the launch of a 5G indoor distributed massive multiple-input-multiple-output solution, both companies said in a release.
This solution applies 5G massive MIMO technology to improve 5G capacity of indoor networks, the companies said.
In the first year of...
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Growing 5G conspiracy theories thought to be behind the attacks
Attacks against cell towers appear to be spreading like wildfire. Just a week after three separate cell tower fires were reported in the U.K., the Netherlands' National Coordinator for Security and Counter-Terrorism (NCTV) confirmed that...
The number of 5G users in China’s capital in Beijing has reached the 2 million threshold after Chinese telecom operators launched 5G commercial services more than five months ago, Chinese press reported, citing data from Beijing’s municipal government.
As of March 30, a total of...
Being open to collaborative problem solving accelerates time to innovation, return
Open radio access networks are a hot topic in telecom right now with major, multinational operators looking to break out of the big, end-to-end vendor ecosystem potentially in favor of smaller companies working together...
Team Telecom will now have 120 days to conduct national security reviews of license applications
Sporting the colloquial name “Team Telecom,” the new committee established by the Trump Administration via an executive order aims to enhance national security by assisting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...
Stadium connectivity and network densification among Microlab priorities
U.S. firm Microlab, part of Wireless
Telecom Group, announced that its wideband products for 5G deployment were
designed in and selected for the new indoor/outdoor SoFi Stadium in Inglewood,
California.
Microlab said that its products
are being used to enable network...
PREVAIL NY project result of week-and-a-half engineering sprint
As COVID-19 continues to take a toll on global healthcare systems, personal protective equipment like surgical and n95 masks are in short supply as are mechanical ventilators, which are used to provide breathing assistance to patients being...
Moving forward, education and healthcare will lean on wireless technology more heavily, says Cradlepoint CMO
One of the primary challenges of battling COVID-19 is delivering reliable connectivity to the millions of students now attending classes from home. While the virus is affecting every single one...
CBRE?s
Property Management Team and proptech company Negawatt Utility have announced a
strategic partnership with the goal of delivering building management and
energy saving technologies to buildings in Hong Kong.
Under the terms of the agreement, CBRE will leverage its client network and professional capabilities to help landlords...
Robots will be distributed to 20 hospitals that provide care for COVID-19 patients, said AIS exec
Recent numbers reveal that Thailand has reported a total of 2,369 COVID-19 cases and 30 fatalities since January, and while faring better than some, the country is still fighting...
Getting to the 5G future requires much more than just upgrading existing networks. Operators need a cohesive roadmap for moving to a virtualized, software-defined infrastructure. Operational excellence will be hinged on OSS/BSS transformation to take advantage of automation and real-time data analysis.
To translate those...
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...
Nokia and industrial firms partner to develop new building data-based applications
Finnish companies KONE, Nokia, YIT, Caverion, Halton, Netox and VTT have founded an ecosystem known as KEKO, with the main goal of creating the global standard in building data ecosystems.
The project is supported by...
Industrial services firm PK Solutions is deploying private LTE in the 3.5 GHz CBRS band in the US for the oil and gas sector. It is working with Nokia and Cradlepoint on the offer.
PK Solutions, part of the PK Companies group, is based in...
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DSS can ease the transition from non-standalone to standalone 5G
For operators looking to quickly scale 5G, the DSS value proposition is crystal clear--instead of rolling trucks to re-farm spectrum for 5G on a site-by-site basis, a software upgrade can be remotely pushed to base...
Polish energy sector company PGE Systemy has appointed Nokia to deploy a pilot version of a private LTE network in the 450 MHz band.
The 450 MHz band is being adopted across Europe for smart grid applications. PGE Systemy’s private wireless network could upport up...
