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Telcos face both a challenge and an opportunity in handling the unique traffic patterns and demands of AI-generated content, especially at the network edge. In sum – what to know: Traffic challenge – uncached, on-the-fly AI content strains networks and …

Telcos are seizing the AI moment by transforming old infrastructure into edge assets and positioning themselves as critical players in the AI value chain. In sum – what to know: Edge opportunity – telco assets like metro hubs and co/lo …

The telecom industry is evolving, embracing hyper-automation, AI, and cloud-native technologies to unlock new monetization opportunities. Networks are becoming more complex. Operators must manage fragmented workloads across multi-cloud environments, optimize edge infrastructure, and enhance automation and interoperability to ensure readiness …

In sum – what you need to know: AI chip for edge devices – NTT enables real-time 4K video processing in drones at altitudes up to 150 meters, five times higher than conventional systems, while consuming under 20 watts of …

In sum – what you need to know: US-made AI infrastructure – Nvidia has commissioned one million square feet of new production space at factories belonging to Taiwanese trio TSMC, Foxconn, and Wistron in Arizona and Texas. Major AI-economy drive …

In sum – what you need to know AI for internal telco efficiencies – AI is being used so successfully in customer care and network maintenance that service agents are solving most problems without raising tickets, and network engineers are …

Alert | For more about AI in telecoms from Verizon Business, don’t miss the RCR webinar on April 8 – with panellists also from ABI Research, Red Hat, Spirent Communications, and TUPL. Sign up here. In sum – what you …

Qualcomm Technologies has signed a deal to acquire US-based Edge Impulse, which makes miniaturised machine learning (ML) tools for microcontrollers (MCUs) in resource-constrained IoT modules. It is the latest move by the chipmaker to reorganise its IoT strategy and portfolio …

UK-headquartered chip design company Arm has extended its version-nine (Armv9) architecture to the far edge to handle AI workloads directly on IoT devices of various types, including vehicles, cameras, machines, and sundry cellular IoT sensors. It has introduced a new …

Ireland-based private 5G specialist Druid Software has released a high-end version of its 5G core network for distributed private 5G deployments at the enterprise and network edge – in order for enterprises, operators, and other system vendors to be able …

NXP Semiconductors has agreed a deal to buy US edge AI chipmaker Kinara for $307 million. Kinara specialises in energy-efficient neural processing units (NPUs). NXP said it will combine the firm’s edge NPUs and AI software more formally into its …

Ericsson is supplying private 5G and edge routers to the international SailGP grand-prix series of high-performance F50 catamaran races around the world. Its Cradlepoint routers will be installed in the ‘wings’ of each F50 catamaran, and communicate with hardware and …

Cellular IoT is evolving rapidly, driven by three distinct trends: the growing demand for actionable data, advancements in edge processing, and the long-anticipated shift from 4G to 5G NR. These trends are not just reshaping the technology landscape, but redefining …

I know that now is the time of year for industry leaders to rattle off their top five predictions for the coming year, offering up a list of bullets that just so happen to fit into their product launch plans …

A couple of submissions from Nokia, here, in response to RCR‘s request for industry soothsayers to step forward, and tell us about the year ahead – in industrial networking, computing, sensing, analytics (and everything in between) in the name of …

Generative AI hype hinges on its novelty: new creative possibilities, business applications, and growth opportunities. For manufacturers, this technology has the potential to streamline supply chain management, help plant managers proactively address maintenance problems and drive efficiency across manufacturing sites. …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating vast new opportunities for communications service providers (CSPs), from faster, self-optimizing networks to intelligent chatbots that transform their customers’ experience. With the number of AI workloads expected to substantially increase over the coming years, CSPs …

In researching a new editorial report, out this month, about the state of private 5G in Industry 4.0, RCR Wireless asked around about the biggest impediments to make enterprise-owned 5G scale in industrial venues. Among the responses, Nokia and Siemens …

IoT is not dead, of course – in case it needs saying. As a broad tech movement, and an awkward tech sobriquet, which arguably describes every single connected-thing that isn’t a personal mobile computer, it is more powerful and important …

Nokia is working with Industry 4.0 giant Rockwell Automation to test private 5G in standalone (SA) mode in the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band in the US. Specifically, they are looking at private 5G for control and automation of industrial assets …

Another day, another forecast; this one from Informa-owned analyst company Omdia, which says global market revenue from “mission-critical” data centre storage will reach $103 billion by 2028. The projected growth is down to more sales and higher prices, it said, …

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is to acquire Colorado-based hybrid cloud management provider Morpheus Data, as part of its strategy to be a one-stop shop for sundry enterprise cloud services, alongside its enterprise connectivity play. It said Morpheus Data will solidify …

Some scratch-your-head stats just in from ABI Research: the manufacturing industry will generate 4.4 zettabytes of data worldwide by 2030, almost equivalent to the annual volume of data carried by global mobile networks to connect mostly-consumer applications. ABI Research calls …