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Nokia and NTT in private 5G Thai-up private network services in Thailand

NTT is to resell Nokia's private cellular and edge cloud system to a total addressable market of 3.2 million enterprises in Thailand – in line with the country's Thailand 5.0 scheme Global system integrator NTT is to resell Nokia's private cellular and edge compute...

Scandi SI Northcom accelerates private 5G push with Nokia

Norwegian system integrator Northcom Solutions has signed with Nokia to resell the Finnish firm’s private LTE and 5G solution, Digital Automation Cloud (DAC), into critical industrial sectors. Northcom has a presence in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, and a track record of selling Industry...

Verizon ready to Rocklahoma, sees growth ahead for mid-sized, private 5G networks

Campers are already on-site for what's billed as "America's biggest Labor Day party", the three-day rock festival in Pryor, Oklahoma known as Rocklahoma that will draw tens of thousands of people each day this coming weekend. Verizon Business will be supporting the event...

National Grid to set ‘honeypots’ to trap hackers – amid rising risk from digitisation

National Grid, the UK electricity and gas utility company, also operating in New York and Massachusetts, is advertising a million-pound vacancy for a cyber specialist to set ‘honeypots’ in its network systems to wrongfoot hackers and misdirect incoming attacks on critical energy infrastructure. The...

Hitachi demos machine vision on edge-5G at US autoplant – with Ericsson, AWS

Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has hooked up a private cellular network from Ericsson and an on-site edge engine from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run computer vision checks on a production line at its electric motor vehicle manufacturing plant in Berea, Kentucky, in the...

Postcards from the edge | Cloud is (quite) secure, edge is not (always) – says Factry

Another angle on (postcard from) the critical 5G edge, in support of an upcoming editorial report on the matter; industrial IoT software provider Factry, tackling the challenge of industrial automation as “hard-boiled IT experts”, suggests the entrenched paranoia and control freakery that tends to...

Postcards from the edge | Compute is critical, 5G is useful (sometimes) – says NTT

Speaking with system integrator NTT this week for an upcoming editorial report about how to allocate critical Industry 4.0 workloads, certain well-understood drivers to move computing and connectivity systems away from centralised cloud and network infrastructure onto enterprise premises were, again, made clear. The...

Federated Wireless to deliver private networks via VMware

The new solution will be delivered by Federated Wireless as part of its private wireless managed service Federated Wireless announced its selection by VMware to deliver private 4G and 5G networks-as-a-service for enterprises in the form of the new VMware Private Mobile Network Service. Federated Wireless...

Deutsche Telekom gets ‘largest’ private 5G gig – three German ports, for Eurogate

Container terminal operator Eurogate Terminals, part of Eurogate Logistics Group, has recruited Deutsche Telekom to build private 5G networks at port terminals in Hamburg, Bremerhaven, and Wilhelmshaven in Germany. The €6.6 million project, funded in part by the German government, will see networks running...

Celona goes to Asia with roster of private 5G carrier and reseller deals

US-based private cellular specialist Celona has set up in southeast Asia via a series of channel sales deals with carriers and integrators in South Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. It follows its move beyond its original confines in the CBRS market in the US...

The private 5G culture wars – “like listening to your parents talk about sex”

“You can't just put on a hoodie and be down with the kids.” RCR Wireless is in conversation with Wienke Giezeman, co-founder and chief executive at The Things Industries, the Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN collective selling middleware and tooling into the hyperactive low-power end of the...

Kagan: VMware Private Mobile Network choses Betacom, Federated, Boingo

Congratulations to Betacom, Federated Wireless and Boingo Wireless as VMware just announced they selected these three as service providers for their Private Mobile Network. VMware is focused on accelerating the digital transformation as an enterprise first, fully managed private wireless service. Private wireless is...

Globe Telecom debuts Athonet-made private 5G in Philippines demo project

Just for the record… Globe Telecom, running the largest mobile network in the Philippines, has “successfully showcased” the country’s first standalone private 5G (5G SA) network at its own INNOVANIA technology and innovation event. It used a core network from Athonet, acquired by Hewlett...

Schneider unveils managed security service, warns of rising OT risk from 5G-IoT

On the back of its launch of a new managed security services (MSS) portfolio, France-based energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric has warned that new cellular-based operational technology (OT) solutions – advancing notably with the introduction of private 5G systems, flanked also by...

US integrator Velaspan signs with Celona to kickstart managed private 5G service

US-based enterprise connectivity integrator-reseller Velaspan has introduced a managed private LTE/5G service for large enterprise customers. The new product uses Celona’s core and radio network solution initially, and leverages the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band; it is targeted at enterprises in the construction, education, healthcare,...

The unwavering promise of America’s wireless future (Reader Forum)

If the White House’s $42.5B investment in Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) signals anything, it’s this: While the 5G journey may — at the moment — appear to be slowing, our nation’s digital expansion is not. Estimations of the global market potential remain robust:...

US Cellular, Ericsson to offer custom private network solutions

Initially, US Cellular and Ericsson will focus on Industry 4.0 manufacturing, logistics, distribution and warehouse use cases US Cellular and Ericsson are now jointly providing private wireless network solutions across several industries, with an initial focus on Industry 4.0 manufacturing, logistics, distribution and warehouse use cases. Eventually, the...

Kagan: Frontier Communications shows growth in Business Services

Frontier Communications has been facing pressure to show growth for several years. While they still face that pressure, when it comes to business services, they seem to be doing something right. Frontier Business is showing growth, and that may be where they will continue...

Enterprise ABCs of private network deployment

MFA offers a number of resources for enterprises that are considering to deploy a private network MFA, the alliance for private networks, is championing the global industry adoption of private networks in any available spectrum. Via real-life private network deployments in healthcare and industrial sites,...

Adapting existing tech for novel private networks

SmartSky and Cambridge Consultants discuss adapting cellular technology for aviation air-to-ground private networks According to SmartSky CTO Dave Claassen, the biggest challenge of providing inflight air-to-ground (ATG) connectivity is that unlike a regular cellular network, ATG must operate in “three dimensions." “You have to take off...

Three aspects of assuring private networks

Private networks present a number of challenges for testing and assurance. By their nature, private networks are delivering some type of service aspect that cannot be achieved via the public network, whether that be more secure access, targeted coverage, or more sophisticated features such...

The 5G disconnect – why private network adoption is lagging (Reader Forum)

In today’s digital landscape, a highly secure and reliable network is a must-have. No matter the sector, traditional network infrastructure is struggling to keep up with the requirements of connected systems and businesses are under pressure to deploy new offerings constantly and rapidly. Enter...

Why do businesses want private networks? It’s simpler than you think.

A new survey of enterprises interested in adopting private networks lays out two primary reasons that they want to do so—and it's not driven by vertical-specific, high-performance use cases. Instead, they see the primary value of private networks as providing increased security and network...

Vodafone claims 60 private networks, plus ramp-up to MPN 2.0 service wrap

Pausing to reflect with media and analysts in London yesterday (August 3) on decent quarterly growth of 4.5 percent within its enterprise division, Vodafone provided some useful colour on its strategy and progress with ‘mobile private networks’ (MPNs; private LTE and 5G, by any...