The main business driver for private networks is security, according to a Spirent report
It comes as no surprise that talk of private wireless was rampant at Mobile World Congress 2023, and while Steve Douglas, head of market strategy at Spirent Communications, was impressed by...
Put a pin in the bombast and a rinse in the dazzle; if MWC is an industry waypoint on the telecoms road, then the 2023 version said private cellular, as a bountiful diversion, is probably just about on the horizon line. Unlike two years...
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, there was a panel discussion around whether private wireless is a real growth opportunity or is overhyped. That’s a very interesting question and I think it is worth exploring. So, let’s peel the layers of the...
Sigfox parent Unabiz has continued to make good on its word to unify low-power wide-area (LPWA) network technologies by striking a deal with LoRaWAN network operator and system provider Senet to allow Sigfox customers to utilise public LoRaWAN in the US, and hybrid LoRaWAN...
'The market approach is chaotic, but it doesn't mean it’s overhyped:' Intel exec
A panel discussion at Mobile World Congress 2023 sought to answer one of the industry’s most burning questions: Is private wireless overhyped? The three panelists answered this question, first in simple terms...
Semtech has rebranded to incorporate its acquisition of Sierra Wireless into its iconography and impose some visual logic on its expanded product portfolio – and also to position itself, as a home for both non-cellular and cellular IoT, as a proponent of planet-saving tech....
Ericsson said its Private 5G provides 4G and 5G connectivity through its single server dual mode core
Swedish vendor Ericsson has inked a reseller agreement with South African company Comsol to provide its private 5G solution that will enable Comsol to expand its enterprise business...
Ahead of LoRaWAN Live in Orlando next week (March 14-16), and on the back of interesting recent crossover deals with both the cellular and non-cellular IoT crowds, RCR Wireless caught up with Donna Moore (pictured), chair of the LoRa Alliance, to discuss how the...
The private 5G market – or at least the hard-nosed Industry 4.0 end of it – has reached an “inflection point”, reckons global system integrator Kyndryl. So much so, the firm has had to move hard to keep up with demand. “Our biggest concern...
Late news out of MWC; Schneider Electric, Capgemini, and Qualcomm Technologies have worked together to develop an automated hoisting solution to attach to private 5G networks. The trio called it a “first-of-its-kind” solution; a prototype has been installed at Schneider Electric’s hoisting lab in...
The Chinese government is to put major focus on 6G technologies, according to Chinese state newspaper Global Times. It reckons China has a competitive advantage in cellular because of its technology capability and application scenarios, said the report.
An official from the Ministry of Industry...
Indonesian telecoms operator Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has appointed Finnish vendor Nokia to build a wide-area private wireless network in certain regions across the country. The brief from IOH, formalised in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nokia, is to build new cellular infrastructure...
Deutsche Telekom is to introduce a cheaper and simpler private 5G network offer for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using Microsoft’s multi-access edge compute (MEC) bundle, which includes a cellular core network and “RAN components” from the Redmond firm, plus sundry compute and application...
Carrier services company BICS is providing private-to-public network roaming for enterprises installing private 5G networks from Microsoft. BICS said the pair have “collaborated to solve the challenges” of IoT roaming between private enterprise networks and public operator networks. The Belgium-based firm is providing roaming...
Two in two days for The Things Industries (TTI), and further progress towards a ‘unified LPWAN world’; Semtech Corporation, in charge of the LoRa technology for low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT connectivity, has just announced a deal with TTI, the Dutch LoRaWAN collective, plus others,...
Dell Technologies kicked off a private 5G charm offensive with the operator set last week, in time for MWC, offering pre-tested and validated edge compute and networking solutions, plus system integration and support, for operators to sell private 5G to enterprises. At the outset,...
MWC 2023: Bosch has said it is working with Nokia to develop industrial IoT solutions based on incoming 6G cellular networks. It follows the same joint work, formalised by the pair in a partnership in 2017, on 5G networks, now coming to market, mostly...
Ahead of a big week in Barcelona, when the telecoms set hits town for its annual MWC jamboree, and when the only talk of any outward substance will be about edge-based 5G for enterprises, analyst house ABI Research has stuck out a revised forecast...
Game, set, and match at MWC, and the contest hasn’t even started. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has bought Italian private core network specialist Athonet for an undisclosed fee. For our money (old Enterprise IoT Insights money), this is likely to be the biggest news...
RAKwireless, making hardware systems for the LoRaWAN-end of the IoT market, notably for the Helium community networks movement, has launched a ‘5G-in-a-box’ hotspot solution, available to system integrators and enterprises to support private 5G setups and experiments. The package features dual 5G and LTE...
Nokia has bolstered its MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) hardware portfolio with a top-end server blade from Dell for hard-working Industry 4.0 installations on its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private 5G platform. The new Dell server, in the form of the PowerEdge XR11, goes alongside...
AWS has opened a new shopfront and for operator partners to hawk their private LTE (4G) and 5G solutions to enterprises, to be combined with its own cloud-to-edge compute services and applications, including sundry IoT and AI/ML based solutions. AWS has deals with Deutsche...
Cox, which had launched its private networks business unit last year, uses both LTE/5G and fixed wireless infrastructure for its offering
Cox Communications announced that it is working with Intel and Future Technologies with the aim of designing and deploying end-to-end private network for public...
Private networking specialist Celona has it in for Nokia. Some way through a pre-brief about its MWC news – about expanding beyond LTE to support 5G in the US, and beyond the US to support a range of 5G bands in global markets –...
