The new campus network solution will allow companies to use their own 5G industrial frequencies in the 3.7 to 3.8 GHz range exclusively
German carrier Deutsche Telekom announced a new campus network solution for business customers, the company said in a release. With the new...
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has opened a six-week consultation with a view to open more cellular spectrum for shared and private usage. It said the success of its Shared Access Licence (SAL) framework, which opened four bands for a range of enterprise users in...
Swedish vendor Ericsson has acquired secure access software provider Ericom Software via its US-based enterprise networking division Cradlepoint. The transaction, for an undisclosed sum, shores up Cradlepoint’s secure access service edge (SASE) and zero-trust offerings for hybrid 5G and wireline environments, the company said.
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The third part in a loose trilogy on the late rise of the IT crowd in the new private cellular space, following announcements by HPE and Cisco at MWC last month, and a direct followup to the Cisco entry a couple of weeks back;...
Belgian private network provider and industrial connectivity specialist Citymesh has said its smart-city consortium project with the city of Wavre in Belgium has received a €3.9 million grant from the European Digital Fund to build a private 5G network to make the city, a...
A snapshot from a session at Telco Cloud & Edge Forum this week, which asked about edge-oriented use cases in enterprises, and threw up a couple of interesting examples – which tell how computer vision, specifically, attached to edge-based cellular networks and computing systems,...
Vodafone Idea noted that the private LTE PoC is based on technology from Nokia
Indian telco Vodafone Idea Limited and L&T Smart World & Communication (SWC) have inked a partnerhsip to establish a use case of private LTE enterprise network in India.
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UK-based BT Group has further expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to collaborate on IoT industry solutions, cloud networking propositions, and 5G edge computing services for UK enterprise customers. It said the deal “targets” a $500 million revenue opportunity” to sell IoT...
The US division of Italian porcelain and tile manufacturer Del Conca Group has deployed a CBRS-based private LTE/5G system at a large production facility in Loudon, in Tennessee. It has selected US private wireless specialist Celona for the new deployment, which covers 30-odd acres...
One would be forgiven for thinking the Industry 4.0 game is all about shiny new private 5G networks. Certainly, the telecoms hype machine, and much of the telecoms trade press, says so. But industrial intelligence did not start with 5G, clearly (and has not...
News out of MWC a couple of weeks back that Cisco had teamed with NTT to get serious about big-ticket private 5G for multinational enterprises was somewhat overshadowed by rival HPE’s purchase of core network specialist Athonet to do the same. But that was...
Qualcomm brings multi-vendor automation and SMO capabilities to private networks with the Edgewise Suite
As Industry 4.0 concepts meant to optimize efficiency in sectors like manufacturing, utilities, mining and more gain interest and adoption, private networks, including 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi, are emerging as a...
Swedish telecoms group Telia Company has developed a new machine vision solution for inventory management in warehouses which runs on a hybrid (‘virtual’; semi-private) private 5G network. The project, part of its work with Finnish logistics group Transval, automatically tracks and reports on the...
900 MHz spectrum in hand, Anterix is building an ecosystem to enable digital transformation of utilities in the US
Anterix is around the halfway point of clearing its nationwide 900 MHz spectrum, and its focus on utilities is paying off with four customers in hand...
Network design and services firm Betacom has developed a perimeter surveillance solution to run on private LTE and 5G networks in airports, warehouses, factories, and other venues. It has worked with Swedish cybersecurity networking outfit Axis Communications and US cybersecurity software firm Evolon on...
Core network specialist Druid Software has announced a deal with French neutral host operator and system integrator TDF to jointly provide private 5G systems to critical industry in France. The announcement is part of a charm offensive by the Irish firm both home and...
German chemical company BASF is to deploy a private 5G network at a facility in the Port of Antwerp in Belgium with the help of local networking specialist Citymesh. The development, which actually follows a number of cellular-linked Industry 4.0 trials in the area,...
Semtech has launched a new multi-band LoRa transceiver for IoT devices to support global spectrum bands and lower power consumption. The new LR1121 transceiver delivers terrestrial low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity for LoRaWAN devices operating at 470MHz, 868MHz and 915MHz, and for LoRa devices running...
The thing about new private cellular, and all the Industry 4.0 pyrotechnics that might burst from it, is that it is not just about shifting boxes and optimising business. There is ostensibly a very neat – and very convenient, cynics might suggest – environmental...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has introduced a new open-source data converter for Microsoft Azure to enable IoT data going via Aruba Wi-Fi access points to be used in sundry business intelligence and analytics applications in the Azure platform. The firm’s Aruba business has worked...
The fleet of safety drones from Citymesh are mounted with 4K cameras and 5G radios, and give local police and fire services a rapid assessment of incidents before dispatching crews.
Belgium-based private cellular specialist Citymesh has launched 70 5G-connected ‘safety drones’ to support local emergency...
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...
