BROWSING: Wired Networks, Fiber

UK telecoms integrator Colt Technology Services is leading a private 5G consortium including Accedian, ADVA, Airspan, and Athonet to test end-to-end private cellular in a real estate environment in France. The setup uses a disaggregated architecture, and has a bearing on related verticals, notably...

Vodafone added 24 million IoT SIM connections in the 12 months to September 30. Its total connections count stood at 136 million at the end of the period, at the end of the second half of the 2021/22 financial year, up from 112 million...

Private network specialist Athonet is telling enterprises to ‘bring your own RAN’ with the introduction of a facility in its network management system to select from a combination of radio products according to “the needs of the mix of applications” in their edge environments. The...

Recent FCC rules establishing the commercial use of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum within the 3.55 to 3.7GHz range (band 48) is driving enterprise interest in the use of cellular technology to enable connectivity for many digital initiatives that demand predictable performance,...

MFA (MulteFire Alliance) has launched a new ‘network identifier’ scheme to provide enterprises with a unique global public land mobile network (PLMN) ID for their private LTE and 5G networks. The facility allows them to create “unique and distinguishable” private networks, so only authorized...

Orange Business Services, the IT and system integrator (SI) division of mobile operator Orange, has delivered a non-cellular Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based indoor tracking system for aerospace manufacturer Safran Aircraft Engines across two sites in France. The solution pulls together tracker tags from...

Speaking yesterday (November 15) with Enterprise IoT Insights about a new deal to supply BLE-based trackers to France-based aerospace manufacturer Safran Aircraft Engines, Orange Business Services portrayed itself as the orchestrator, practically, of Industry 4.0. It is a telling assessment, and an interesting case:...

Speaking last week on a webinar session with analyst house Omdia – following the release of its new industrial edge portfolio at Google Next 2021 last month, and ahead of a new joint-research report with Omdia on why mobile operators should work with hyperscalers...

From IoT for internal efficiency to external productivity A new report by analyst house Transforma Insights for IT hardware and services provider Oracle says enterprise internet of things adoption has turned a corner, and gained some newfound maturity. It is a decent read, which draws...

Deutsche Telekom has developed a new LTE-M based sensor solution with US based infrastructure and analytics company Divirod to help municipal authorities and water companies to gather data insights about the risk of flooding and extreme weather events. Divirod has developed the sensors, and...

Australian IoT hardware maker Binary Beer and Canadian IoT software company Kegshoe, specialising in keg trackers and tracking solutions for breweries, respectively, have teamed up to sell their products in tandem. The deal means breweries and distributors in Canada and the US can utilise...

Various updates from LoRa-land, and beyond... Semtech, the owner of LoRa tech and licensing, said environmental IoT provider ICT International, is using LoRa-based devices on LoRaWAN networks to improve urban forest management and carbon accounting. ICT International’s “plant physiology devices” are able to monitor...

Narrowband IoT company Sigfox has teamed up with Irish-American financial software company Stripe to offer IoT subscriptions for purchase online. Stripe is providing the online payment infrastructure. Customers can choose between ‘Discovery’ or ‘Enterprise’ airtime subscriptions. The first is for fewer 10,000 device subscriptions,...

US satellite broadband provider Viasat has agreed a deal to acquire UK-based counterpart Inmarsat for $7.3 billion. The combined company will integrate their spectrum, satellite, and terrestrial assets as a “global high-capacity hybrid space and terrestrial network”, the pair said. It will focus on...

The micromobility market, covering electric bikes and scooters (e-scooters), will grow at a compound rate (CAGR) of 16 percent per year to 2027, from around $3 billion in 2019 to $12 billion at the end of the period. The emergence of cellular IoT –...

​​Small Cell Forum (SCF) is to develop a new set of private 5G ‘blueprints’ for enterprise and industry, to build on parallel work already completed by the likes of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), and the MulteFire Alliance. The...

To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum.  Differences between wired and wireless connectivity at factory floors When it comes to deploying connectivity on the factory floor, choosing whether to deploy wired or wireless connectivity chiefly depends on the...

    Canadian operator Bell announced an agreement with compatriot firm Esri Canada, a geographic information system (GIS) provider, to create the Bell Integrated Smart City Ecosystem. This integrated solution will combine Bell's 5G network and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions with Esri's real-time analytics and location...

The city of Portland in Maine, in the US, has migrated its smart street lights onto a cloud management platform (CMS)  from California-headquartered Dhyan Networks and Technologies, and away from smart lighting company Echelon. It is the same switchover carried out by the town...

Industrial 5G and IoT – or at least, the digital pyrotechnics sprung from 5G and IoT networks – can help the planet reduce carbon emissions, reckons the tech and telecoms market. Telecoms vendor Ericsson, chorusing the message from telecoms operator Vodafone a couple of...

The Scotland 5G Centre, a government-sponsored research centre with the universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, has opened a private 5G network testbed in Dumfries in the south of Scotland, to be followed by a second private 5G showcase before the year is out in...

Semiconductor company Morse Micro, developing Wi-Fi HaLow for low-power mid-range IoT connectivity, has confirmed its various chipsets, modules, and reference designs have been certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance as part of its new Wi-Fi HaLow accreditation scheme. Its new Wi-Fi HaLow reference design is...

Red Hat and Intel have extended their Industry 4.0 partnership to combine their open source software and industrial edge hardware to spur the smart manufacturing and smart energy sectors. The pair are looking to sell integrated hardware and software to provide the ‘smarts’ in...

To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum.    How 5G could improve factory floor communications?   Factory or plant floor communications refers to the control and data communications typically found in automation environments, on a manufacturing plant floor or process...