5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Industrial automation
Industrial automation uses control systems to manage repetitive tasks, often with IoT sensors, AI vision cameras and autonomous robots
Density and The Building People partner to provide building automation solutions
Density, a specialist in business solutions for the built environment, and The Building People, a provider of smart building solutions that support the built...
‘Dropping latency at the edge:” Verizon launches private cloud solution for enterprises with Microsoft...
Earlier this year, Verizon launched On Site 5G, which allowed enterprise and public sector customers to utilize the carrier’s mmWave network
Almost a year after...
Taiwan urges local carriers FET and APT to accelerate 5G rollouts: report
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) urged local mobile operators Far EasTone (FET) and Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) to accelerate the construction of 5G base...
Nokia pauses work with O-RAN Alliance, citing national security concerns
Nokia joined the O-RAN Alliance in 2018, the first major RAN vendor to do so
Finnish RAN vendor Nokia has been considered a driving force...
Protecting and securing data in a 5G network
5G is more than just another generation of mobile network technology. It is a potential game-changer for communications service providers that have long struggled...
The ‘failure’ of private 5G – another telco bungle, or just industrial inertia? (Is...
Did you see the writeup last week (or the week before?), that the window of opportunity for telcos to reinvent themselves with private 5G,...
5G-controlled fire-fighting tank tops list of Australia’s $20m 5G innovation spend
The Australian government has announced nearly AUS$20 million in funding for 5G-based enterprise innovation projects in the country, including for a 5G-controlled fire-fighting tank....
Deutsche Telekom builds industrial 5G network for Berlin’s Future Factory Hub
Deutsche Telekom is to build a private 5G campus network at the Future Factory Hub, a research campus being built at the Werner-von-Siemens Centre...
5G Marketing Trends and Insights with Peter Linder of Ericsson
With the pandemic, the trend right now is that everything is video-related. From video calls to video games, everyone is, at some point, looking...
‘The last two weeks have been humbling’: T-Mo’s CEO apologizes for data breach
In the wake of a major cyber attack on T-Mobile US, CEO Mike Sievert has issued an apology and an update on how the...
US midband spectrum auctions, recapped
There have been two recent U.S. midband spectrum auctions for spectrum between 3-4 GHz: The shared spectrum of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS)...
‘The missing piece:’ What is the third-party enablement business model for rural broadband?
C Spire's technology strategy lead: 'No one does rural broadband particularly well'
In a two-year research project of the Rural Broadband Consortium, C Spire led...
ZTE’s operating revenues increase 12.4% year-on-year in H1
Chinese vendor ZTE reported operating revenue of CNY53.07 billion ($8.19 billion) in the first half of the year, an increase of 12.4% compared to...
Singtel unveils new uses cases for 5G SA technology in Singapore
Singaporean telco Singtel launched a number of 5G Standalone (SA) use cases, the carrier said in a release.
Singtel said it continues to expand its...
Steelcase inks deal with Kontrol Technologies for viral detection technology
U.S. firm Steelcase, which manufactures furniture for offices, hospitals and classrooms, announced an exclusive agreement with Canadian smart building company Kontrol Technologies to offer...
What is XaaS and how is it changing the face of IT and business?...
XaaS stands for Anything as a Service. After various technologies and innovations were connected through networks and converged to become productized, the word was...
How to secure cloud-native 5G virtual and Open RAN infrastructure (Analyst Angle)
Ever since the cloud-native virtual RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN architectures have started gaining popularity, one key question both proponents and adversaries have been...
The Sunday Brief: The Two Strongest Headed into 2022 – Comcast and Google (Part...
Summertime greetings from North Carolina, Nebraska, Missouri, and California (the CoBank conference – Jim and Jennifer Fritzsche of Greenhill pictured). As many of you...
TSMC reportedly plans chip price hikes
Taiwan-based TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer, reportedly plans to raise prices between 10-20%, impacting devices from smartphones to automobiles.
The Wall Street Journal,...
Test and Measurement: Streaming Video Alliance demonstrates Open Caching APIs in testbed
The Streaming Video Alliance said this week that it successfully demonstrated multi-provider interoperability of its Open Caching APIs, connecting content caches from multiple entities...
Cloud gaming to generate $1.6 billion in 2021, according to Newzoo
Newzoo has issued a new report that concludes that the global market for cloud gaming will hit 23.7 million paying users and $1.6 billion...
Proptech startup funding on track to break real estate industry records in 2021: JLL
The number of real estate technology startups has increased 300% over the past decade, according to a new study by real estate services specialist...
Facility managers see improving cybersecurity for OT systems as key priority: Report
Improving cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) systems ranks as one of the top priorities for surveyed facility managers over the next 12 to 18...
What’s the role of edge computing in 5G manufacturing?
Edge computing offers several benefits for 5G manufacturing, such as lower latency, increased cybersecurity and a better management of data