BROWSING: 5G

Standalone 5G vs. Non-Standalone 5G

Forging the 5G future Standalone 5G brings faster, more reliable, and vastly more capable telecommunications than ever before. But it also presents logistical, financial, and operational challenges for network operators who have to invest a massive amount of time and treasure upgrading infrastructure and organizations...

Federated Wireless, Learning Alliance to train 2,000 CBRS network installers

Federated Wireless is working with Learning Alliance Corporation, offering vocational training with businesses and colleges, to issue more than 2,000 certificates to newly qualified private-network installation engineers working with LTE in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) in the US. They said the move is...

Ericsson and Vodafone 5G trial cuts network energy consumption in half

Vodafone UK intends to deploy 1,500 of the new Ericsson radios across its network by April 2022 Ericsson last year warned in a report that 5G has the potential to "dramatically increase" energy consumption, arguing that is "an industry responsibility" to address this reality. This...

5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Troubleshooting using a digital twin

One of the ways digital twinning of production facilities is expected to help manufacturers is in the area of maintenance and repair

France ends August with 28,821 authorized cell sites for 5G

France had a total of 28,821 5G authorized sites as of September 1, of which 17,559 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators, according to the latest information provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR. ANFR said that the number of authorized 5G sites...

Chinese operators deploy 993,000 5G base stations nationwide

Chinese operators have already deployed 993,000 5G base stations across the country, according to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). 5G base stations installed by local carriers have already covered all prefecture-level cities, more than 95% of counties and 35% of towns across...

Telia joins with Swedish tech consortium to put 5G farming robot through its paces

Operator Telia is working with a consortium of Swedish research and tech companies to test the effectiveness of cellular 5G to connect and control robots in the farming industry. The group has connected an autonomous robot, programmed for weed control in a farming environment,...

John Deere Industry 4.0 Lead: ‘5G is really important to us’

Non-Standalone 5G deployment at U.S. facilities will form template for expansion to global John Deere manufacturing facilities DENVER--Representatives from John Deere, a global manufacturer of agricultural machinery headquartered in Moline, Illinois, have gradually become mainstays at telecoms and technology events as the company looks to...

‘5G is not a special flower’ – a two-sided tale of telcos’ trouble with enterprise 5G

If the main event – the big report from which this article is taken – makes the case for operator-led management of private industrial 5G networks, with a primary investigation into how and where they might run operations, then the below Q&A session veers...

Vodafone deploys private 5G network at Porsche’s development center

Vodafone Germany and Porsche have deployed a private 5G network at the latter’s Weissach Development Center. The new 5G technology will improve the framework conditions for the strategic development of new vehicle systems and functions at the industrial facility, the two companies said. When installing...

5G-ENCODE launches next phase of industrial private 5G network in the UK

The first phase of the industrial private 5G network focused on testing asset tracking and AR/VR use cases 5G-ENCODE, a collaborative project in the U.K. aiming to establish business cases and value propositions for 5G applications in manufacturing the industry, has turned on the second...

Cradlepoint focused on communicating the value of 5G to enterprises

DENVER--It's quite clear that service provider 5G revenue will largely be derived from enterprise investment in cellular as a driver of digital transformation and organizational change. But adoption is challenging, particularly for small- and medium-sized enterprises that don't have the same resources as the...

Celona claims O-RAN compliant private 5G, inks investment deal for federal 5G systems

California-based private LTE/5G startup Celona is the first company to implement the O-RAN Alliance’s specifications for open radio access network (open RAN) software in private 5G enterprise networks, it has said. Celona said its O-RAN-compliant capabilities, newly certified, confirm its so-called ‘edgeless’ 5G architecture...

Ericsson, Qualcomm offer ‘nearly unlimited potential’ with successful 5G NR call on CBRS spectrum

The 5G NR call on CBRS used the Ericsson 5G Distributed Innovation Network and a device equipped with the Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform Ericsson and Qualcomm are claiming the first successful over-the-air 5G New Radio (NR) call on CBRS (Citizen Broadband Radio Service) spectrum,...

Beijing aims to expand 5G infrastructure to cover key areas: Report

China’s capital Beijing aims to expand 5G network coverage in key areas including hospitals, universities and train stations, The Beijing News reported. The Chinese city has already deployed a total of 44,000 5G base stations, while 5G terminal users in the city have reached 11.52...

Mediacom taps Ericsson for rural CBRS fixed wireless

Mediacom began testing CBRS applications in 2019, and spent almost $30 million for 576 licenses in the PALs spectrum auction As the U.S. government funnels billions of dollars into rural broadband, Ericsson and Mediacom Communications have announced a partnership aimed at extending broadband services...

South Korea surpasses 17 million 5G subscribers at end-July: report

South Korea ended July with a total of 17.08 million subscribers in the 5G segment, local news agency Yonhap reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT. During July, the country’s mobile carriers recorded a net addition of 616,000 5G subscribers. 5G subscribers at...

Wirepas secures €10m funds to hasten launch of non-cellular private ‘5G’ system

Wirepas has received an additional €10 million cash injection from Estonia-based early-stage venture capital firm Karma and Finnish state-owned investment firm Tesi to accelerate development of its new mesh-based non-cellular industrial ‘5G’ technology. Both Karma and Tesi are existing investors in Finland-based Wirepas. Wirepas is...

Bosch opens local Industry 4.0 academies, global Industry 4.0 apprenticeships

Bosch has opened two new Industry 4.0 academy venues in Germany, and is offering Industry 4.0 apprenticeships and qualifications to staff at 240 Bosch plants worldwide, as well as to employees at partner organisations, via an international network of chambers of industry and commerce. The...

What is a cloud-native 5G network?

Cloud-native 5G means advantage of scale The 5G Core standard defines a Service-Based Architecture (SBA) that is designed from the start for cloud-native 5G network deployment. This enables communication service providers to build and iterate network functions faster, with greater scalability and flexibility than before....

Will 5G Change the World? Steve Goetz, IBM (Ep. 43)

Will 5G Change the World? is brought to you by VIAVI Solutions. VIAVI helps communications service providers, network equipment manufacturers and enterprises worldwide command the 5G network with automated solutions for test, monitoring and assurance.

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

‘Dropping latency at the edge:” Verizon launches private cloud solution for enterprises with Microsoft Azure

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 announcing an edge computing solution with Microsoft, Verizon has announced the availability of an on-premises, private edge compute solution called...

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 stations, local news site Digitimes reported. The Taiwanese government has recently approved FET's NT$5 billion ($179 million) investment in APT that...