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Kyndryl teams with Palo Alto Networks to offer managed private 5G security service

US-based system integrator Kyndryl is working with Palo Alto Networks to provide network and cybersecurity services for Industry 4.0 customers running private LTE and 5G networks. The pair are combining their network security services and platform security capabilities, respectively, to design, build, and manage...

Software AG completes €2.6bn sale to US private equity firm Silver Lake

US private equity firm Silver Lake has secured over 85 percent of the share capital and voting rights of Software AG, the second biggest Germany-based provider of business software after SAP. A press note from Software AG put its total share in the firm...

Siemens joins with machine maker DMG MORI to boost Industry 4.0 ecosystem play

Siemens is offering a digital twin from Germany-based DMG MORI for machine tool processing on its Xcelerator marketplace for industrial-change applications. The announcement is significant, arguably, because it brings together two of the leading Germany-based protagonists in the global Industry 4.0 game, in the form...

Poland releases 3.8-4.2 GHz band for local private (and public) 5G deployments

The Polish government has released the 3800-4200 MHz (3.8-4.2 GHz) frequency band to cities and enterprises for private LTE and 5G network deployments. The Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) has allocated the 3800-3900 MHz band for use by local governments exclusively, which can apply...

Spending on US LTE/5G CBRS networks to jump 20% per year to hit $1.5bn by 2027

Annual spending on LTE and 5G-based CBRS network infrastructure will account for more than $1.5 billion by the end of 2026 (2027). So says SNS Telecom & IT, promoting new research on the topic, timed to release with the CBRS hullabaloo at MWC in...

Nokia intros explosion-proof private 5G handsets for explosive Industry 4.0

Nokia has launched a number of industrial 4G/5G devices for hazardous environments in ports, mines, chemical plants, and oil platforms. They are targeted at companies buying its private 4G/5G networks. The Finnish firm has also updated its own team comms application to align with...

Siemens’ home-made private 5G is go (finally) – in home of Industrie 4.0, at least

Siemens has stuck out a press release to declare the open availability of its private 5G system for industrial-grade networking in Germany, the original home of Industrie 4.0. Is that news, really? The German industrial behemoth’s in-house 5G project has been one of the...

NTT, Qualcomm to accelerate 5G device ecosystem for AI edge adoption

NTT exec: 'We used to say software is eating hardware; I think AI will eat software' This week, during Mobile World Congress Las Vegas, NTT and Qualcomm announced a partnership focused on bolstering the 5G device ecosystem to accelerate the global private 5G market, which...

Editorial Webinar: Critical edge workloads for industrial IoT — what stays and what goes?

The grand combined promise of 5G networking and edge computing for enterprises is to max out the performance, reliability, and security of mission- and business-critical Industry 4.0 systems.But which workloads should always stay on-prem, for reasons of security and performance, and which can be...

Postcards from the edge | Cloud-to-edge consistency is everything, says AWS

ACHTUNG! THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE TO JOIN THE WEBINAR ON CRITICAL 5G EDGE WORKLOADS ON SEPTEMBER 27 (TOMORROW). JOIN HERE – IT'S FREE, AND NOT-TO-BE-MISSED! You know the drill by now; you know the questions. Here is the response from AWS, with the latest...

Nokia opens new lab in Dubai to boost AI/ML adoption

Nokia said that one of the areas of focus of the lab will be on private wireless and industrial networks Finnish vendor Nokia said it will launch an open innovation lab in Dubai, UAE, with the main aim of driving regional innovation and accelerating the...

Cox to resell InfiniG’s neutral-host CBRS offer – as part of new private 5G play

US broadband services and cable television provider Cox Communications will resell the new multi-carrier neutral host CBRS solution from InfiniG, announced last week. It is the first channel partner for the brand new InfiniG service, which launched ahead of MWC Las Vegas last week...

SOLiD and ASOCS produce open-RAN private 5G for Industry 4.0 in CBRS

US-based in-building cellular connectivity provider SOLiD has combined with Israeli edge-cloud and private cellular software company ASOCS to deliver an Open RAN solution for private 5G and industrial IoT networks in the developing Industry 4.0 sector. Their solution, targeted at private 5G deployments in...

Telefónica to bundle and build Snowflake multi-cloud services for Euro enterprises

Telefónica Tech, the digital services and enterprise transformation unit with Spain-based telecoms group Telefónica, has a new deal with enterprise data services provider Snowflake, to sell the US firm’s hybrid edge-cloud (“multi-cloud”) services to enterprises in Europe. Telefónica Tech is to bundle Snowflake services...

Dracula sucks light out of dark – passive IoT will drive massive IoT, claims LoRa crowd

Some of the best ideas in IoT… Scratch that; some of the most important innovations in the whole tech game…  Actually, scratch all of that; if everything in the end is going to be connected in an internet-of-things (whatever that is), then some of...

Orange commits to LoRaWAN in France beyond 2027

Orange has committed to non-cellular IoT connectivity technology LoRaWAN “beyond 2027”. The France-based mobile operator effectively told the SIDO Lyon, the major France-based IoT and AI trade fair, today (September 20) that it will continue to support the development of its public LoRaWAN network...

Careful or care-free – BT and Vodafone split the difference over generative AI

A good panel session at Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen yesterday (September 19), rounding out the first early-morning keynotes, saw chief digital and technology officers from BT and Vodafone, plus others, variously discuss the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) within telecoms. In particular,...

Postcards from the edge | The critical 5G edge is ‘best of both worlds’, says Siemens

If you want to know about what to do with sensitive data in operational technology (OT) systems – how to prioritise and segment it, where to place it between the edge and the cloud, and how to retrieve it at both ends (and anywhere...

Celona intros public/private neutral host service in CBRS, starting with T-Mobile

US private networking specialist Celona has released an “end-to-end” neutral host service that operates over shared CBRS spectrum in the US. The cloud-based software solution allows organizations to extend public 4G-LTE coverage, initially with T-Mobile in the US, to environments with patchy mobile reception,...

AWS intros edge management service for critical workloads in enterprise infrastructure

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a new managed edge service under the banner AWS Dedicated Local Zones. The new services means enterprises can build their own compute infrastructure on their own privately-owned premises, either at a main operational site or a dedicated server...

Nokia intros edge charging for enterprises to monetize private 5G data

Finnish network vendor Nokia has launched new ‘edge charging’ software to give enterprises more control over how data running on private 5G networks is processed and analysed at the edge, and also marketed and sold. Nokia is targeting organisations in the cities, utilities, and...

Sunrise touts Industry 4.0 pilots at Swiss roll on private 5G

The business division of Swiss operator Sunrise, as if to preempt the government’s release of ‘vertical’ spectrum on its home turf at the start of 2024, has announced a couple of private 5G pilot projects as it seeks to ramp-up interest from enterprises in...

Postcards from the edge | Something strange at the 5G edge, says Southern California Edison

Something strange is occuring in the utilities sector with the introduction of private 5G at the critical edge, says Southern California Edison. The new capabilities of private cellular are unburdening the old grid-edge of low-power IoT, and also liberating it for game-changing high-power IoT....

Switzerland to release 3.4-3.5 GHz band for private 5G from 2024

The long tail of national regulation on ‘vertical’ private 5G spectrum continues to wag, in a slightly inconsistent manner. Swiss telecoms regulator BAKOM has announced it will open the 3400-3500 MHz (3.4-3.5 GHz) band for enterprises to deploy private 5G networks from the start...