BROWSING: Enterprise

A sure sign of spiralling interest in asset tracking; US supply-chain software outfit project44 has raised an $80 million funding round led by UK-based investment company Generation Investment Management and Denmark-based A.P. Moller Holding, the investment arm of A.P. Moller Maersk, and parent of...

On a stretch of I-24 in Tennessee that is newly equipped to serve as a testbed for intelligent transportation technologies, 100 vehicles with AI-driven adaptive cruise control will join the morning rush hour next week so that researchers can assess whether cars directed by...

Wi-Fi has transformed our homes and workplaces by enabling device mobility and IoT applications. Since the introduction of Wi-Fi 6 in 2019, communities and enterprises have used it to support a host of applications. Wi-Fi 6 incorporates a number of enhancements that have made...

The new automotive platforms would be based on Snapdragon digital chassis solutions from Qualcomm Technologies   Renault Group and Qualcomm Technologies announced that the companies intend to further expand their technology collaboration, aiming to deliver a centralized compute architecture for Renault’s next-generation of software-defined vehicles. Known as...

Eight percent of stock in the supply chain, between production and consumption, never even arrives – mostly because it either spoils in transit (4.3 percent) or is discarded as surplus (3.4 percent). This failure of stock preservation and demand forecasting (“overproduction”) in the supply...

NTT DOCOMO and Accenture have said they will put formal focus on so-called Web3 solutions, based on blockchain technology, to “solve social issues”. The pair said they will “address technology challenges and train talent” in the Web3 field in pursuit of social good. So...

NetCloud Exchange’s 5G optimizations will help enterprises with network slicing and SA deployments, said the company Cradlepoint on Wednesday announced that its NetCloud Exchange Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) solution is now optimized for 5G networks. The new solution will help enterprises with network slicing...

Arm has integrated its development tools for embedded devices into the open source GitHub developer platform, home to 90 million developers, for faster IoT development. It is also working with development workflow providers Qeexo and Nota.AI to make its digital-twin developer software available on...

Federated Wireless has been conditionally approved as an automated frequency coordination (AFC) system operator by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to go alongside its role as gatekeeper for CBRS spectrum access for private cellular deployments in the US. The firm has already struck commercial...

Last year, SK Telecom rearranged its business into five different groups, namely fixed and mobile telecommunications, media, enterprise, AIVERSE (AI+Universe), and connected intelligence   South Korea’s largest telco, SK Telecom, aims to become an artificial intelligence (AI) company, the telco’s CEO Ryu Young-sang said during a...

Nascent satellite-based 5G narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) wholesaler Sateliot continues to put together the pieces of its network, announcing this week that its first functional low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite is expected to hitch a ride on a SpaceX launch in the first quarter of 2023. The...

Vishy Ramaswamy, Tata Communications’s VP for 5G and digital solutions incubation, said that the firm is currently in talks with nearly 40 companies   Indian company Tata Communications is currently in talks with at least 40 large businesses from different verticals about providing them with private...

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is to release a “blueprint”, it says, for how to deploy “cost-effective and scalable” cloud-native private 5G networks, based on an initial trial of a 5G-connected computer vision application led by Telefonica. Rakuten Symphony, Tech Mahindra, and NTT Data...

Deutsche Telekom said that the semi-automation with the help of 5G technology should increase the capacity of the cranes   German carrier Deutsche Telekom announced the start of the construction of a 5G field test at the port of Duisburg. The telco explained that the initiative stipulates...

How are energy and utility companies thinking about edge computing and the security of that edge? A newly released report from AT&T looks specifically at how this sector is making use of edge computing and related security concerns. According to the September 2021 survey on...

Japanese IT firm Fujitsu is to start testing private 5G for equipment inspection at its major data centre in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa prefecture, as a springboard to drive “operational resilience and process automation” in the broader data centre market. The Fujitsu project, to...

Okay, so not a new use case, as such; it is just another connectivity-in-manufacturing case. But still, it is process manufacturing… at a giant paper mill! Swedish pulp and paperboard company Holmen Iggesund has commissioned local system integrator Combitech to deploy a private 5G...

Israeli private cellular security startup OneLayer has opened a network security lab in Tel Aviv for telecoms and security companies to test threats to private LTE and 5G networks, currently rolling out in enterprises across the globe. The firm has invited solution providers to...

US system integrator Kyndryl has published a nice-looking blog post, complete with videos, on its headline work, announced at the start of the year, to deploy private LTE for Michigan-headquartered Dow Chemical Company, manufacturer of plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. The post puts focus...

CTS exec: 'Private networks are like a Swiss Army Knife' Communication Technology Services (CTS) has completed a CBRS private LTE network-as-a-service (NaaS) trial at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) airport. Commissioned by the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC), the network was deployed to address six...

The action plan, which will run from 2022 to 2026, aims to further integrate virtual reality with industrial applications   China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with other four Chinese government agencies, developed a five-year action plan targeting the shipment of 25 million virtual...

The process of deploying a private cellular network is different than enterprise Wi-Fi, but it's one that companies who wish to explore 4G or 5G private networks should be familiar with. In a session at the recent Private Networks European Forum, that topic was tackled...

US LoRaWAN specialist Senet has been recruited by US engineering firm LimnoTech to deploy a public LoRaWAN network across the Great Lakes region of the US, providing connectivity across area wetlands, parks, coastlines, rural and urban areas, and open waters. The work is part...

New research from analyst house Berg Insight says the market for cellular IoT gateways and routers was worth $1.15 billion in 2021, with 4.5 million units shipped in the year, representing robust sales growth of 14 percent. Market demand has recovered, and then-some, following...