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Dell integrates Hyundai, Intel into NativeEdge platform to spur AI in Industry 4.0

Dell Technologies has expanded its edge partner ecosystem with Hyundai AutoEver, a factory IT/OT integration tool from car maker Hyundai, and Intel’s OpenVINO developer toolbox, commonly used for edge AI applications. The latter is now part of its NativeEdge Blueprint catalogue of edge design...

‘Every tech is hyped, but this is different’ – Siemens goes all-in on industrial AI

There’s something funny about a captain of industry (Industrie 4.0) scratching his head when his boiler breaks down at his French summer house. But this was the tale that Cedrik Neike, chief executive at Siemens Digital Industries, told Hannover Messe on Monday (April 22)...

Right way, wrong gear – 5G-ACIA sets plan to shift private 5G up a gear

The mood in the 5G Arena at Hannover Messe is muted, same as last year. All the buzz and excitement about private / industrial 5G at MWC, which seemed almost to bubble-over in the tight-knit halls of the Fira de Barcelona as the late...

Nokia bolsters Industry 4.0 portfolio with ‘micro-edge’ AI compute, video AI positioning

Hannover Messe, Germany: Nokia has introduced a new ‘micro-edge’ compute solution to process industrial AI/ML workloads on or adjacent to IoT sensor devices attached to private LTE/5G networks, and also to enterprise Wi-Fi networks. At the same time, it has introduced a new video...

Swedish mining company Boliden taps Industry 4.0 startup Radtonics for private 5G

Swedish mining company Boliden (New Boliden) has appointed local industrial 5G network “challenger” Radtonics to deploy a private 5G network at its mine in Garpenberg, in Dalarna County in Sweden. Boliden produces zinc, copper, lead, nickel, silver, and gold, at mines in Sweden, Finland,...

“A long way from Silicon Valley” – operators get enterprise (and service), says Vodafone

Note, this article is a continuation of a previous post, which can be found here. Funny thing about telecoms, and telcos specifically, so often derided in the Industry 4.0 market for not ‘getting’ enterprise, is that they have listened and changed, arguably, and are selling...

Boots on the ground – who’s who in the supply of private 5G networks

There was a period, a couple of years ago, when the telecoms ecosystem talked about ‘priming’ the supply of private 5G networks into enterprises. It was presented as a winner-takes-all game, to an extent, and mobile operators, in particular, said they expected to command...

Tampa Electric to test LTE gear with STA licence ahead of big Anterix build-out

Tampa Electric (TECO) has applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US for a six-month Special Temporary Authority (STA) license in the 936.5-939.5 MHz spectrum band, running to the start of December, to build an “experimental” private LTE network using Ericsson gear....

MFA Webinar: Why should your enterprise deploy a private network?

Enterprises around the world are deploying 3GPP-based private networks to gain the advantages of improved capacity and coverage, greater control and on-premise data security, and better predictability and more reliable performance.The Alliance for private networks – MFA – is championing the global industry adoption...

Private cellular: A connectivity solution suited for the future of warehousing and logistics (Reader Forum)

As enterprises across the world look to bring their supply chains into the future, they're implementing tenets of Industry 4.0 into their operations. The result has been Logistic 4.0, a digital transformation framework, that at its foundation, requires connectivity enabling Internet of Things (IoT)...

Editorial Webinar: Securing the edge -where 5G meets the enterprise

As wireless communication technologies continue to advance at a rapid pace, the emergence of 5G has become a game-changer, especially in enterprise environments where edge-based private networks are on the rise.On April 24th, RCR Wireless News is joined by F5 and KPMG for an insightful webinar diving into the critical...

Kagan: US Cellular now offers private wireless for the enterprise

Private wireless will work with, not replace Wi-Fi and public wireless US Cellular is focused on growing their business in the private wireless space. They may be the largest wireless carrier in the USA after Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T. They see a new growth opportunity...

Private 5G startup Ataya strikes OEM deal with RAN provider MosoLabs

US-based private 5G startup Ataya has appointed fellow California firm MosoLabs, producing radios and devices for shared and private networks, as the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for its Chorus-branded line of indoor and outdoor private 5G radio access points. The Chorus product is presented...

Private 5G – hype versus reality (regarding a mess of market forecasts)

Note, this article forms the intro section to a new editorial report from RCR Wireless about ‘private 5G – hype versus reality’. The full report is available to download for free here. It might be taken, as well, with new numbers (just in; April...

Private 4G/5G RAN sales jumped 40% in 2023 – “massive opportunity”, says Dell’Oro

New numbers, just in (further discussion here); analyst group Dell’Oro Group says private 4G/5G RAN revenues jumped around 40 percent in 2023, compared to 2022, with Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei leading global sales during “this initial phase” – and Nokia, Ericsson, and Samsung dominating...

Kagan: Why private wireless bankruptcies are not a sign of trouble

Private wireless has been one of the areas with so much growth potential and promise. Many smaller companies entered the space with big ideas. The problem was many were smaller companies without a lot of cash flow. New sectors take time. While the idea...

Private 5G vendors in trouble – Casa goes bust; Airspan gets late reprieve

Seems those sketches of Spain were about right. US-based core network provider Casa Systems, prominent on the private networks scene, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in a court in Delaware, and agreed a deal at the same time to sell its 5G...

Myths and legends – three lies the private 5G sector tells

Or three lies it has told, and is being forced to take back.  Ask Future Technologies – which appears, directly or indirectly, to have its fingerprints across every-other big private 5G deployment in the US – about the hype in the market, and it will...

Boldyn to deploy ‘first private 5G hopsital in Europe’ in Oulu, Finland

UK-headquartered shared network specialist Boldyn Networks, via its newly-acquired Edzcom division, is to supply a private 5G network to Oulu University Hospital in Finland. Edzcom, a pioneer in the private networks market, also based in Finland, has received funding from the European Commission as...

Twinned, tweaked and optimized – five principles of good private 5G design

As we heard last week, good 5G is bad 5G without careful network design – especially with private 5G in complex enterprise venues. This was the line from Nazim Choudhury, director of market development at Canada-based iBwave Solutions, which sells design software for all...

Federated Wireless intros premium CBRS service for high-end enterprise 5G

US-based spectrum management provider Federated Wireless has launched a premium CBRS service for high-end workloads on private 4G and 5G networks in shared spectrum. It claims the new service, called Premium Enterprise Grade Spectrum (PEGS), offers faster response times, tailored KPI-based monitoring, dedicated technical...

Good 5G is bad 5G with poor network design – especially in enterprise

You can have the best 5G network in the world, and make it into the worst; or, at least, you can render it as completely ordinary without much effort, and maybe totally useless. This is the warning from Nazim Choudhury, director of market development...

Simpler systems, faster returns, happier teams – five key trends in private 5G

Following on from the article last week, about “ecosystem linkage” in the private 5G market, Stephen Douglas, head of market strategy at Spirent, presents five key trends with cellular in the broad enterprise space. Note, he lists a bunch of others in conversation, as...

Kagan: How Wi-Fi, Private Wireless, FWA can use coopetition to win

Coopetition is when competitors work as partners and both win Over the years, we have been watching the wireless and telecom industry change and expand into new technologies like Private Wireless, Wi-Fi 7 and FWA. Plus, other new tech like AI, IoT and much more...