BROWSING: artificial intelligence

Make the switch to 5G easy by adopting artificial intelligence in your networks As 5G networks are lit up in urban cores and devices begin to hit the market, consumers are already seeing upward of 1 Gbps per second over the air. AND that’s just...

The German government has swelled its 2019 funding for artficial intelligence (AI) to €500 million and promised a further €500 million in 2020. The country wants to ensure advanced analytics and automation tools are in the hands of it entire industrial sector, it said....

Korean telco SK Telecom and Microsoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to carry out cooperation activities in the fields of artificial intelligence, cloud and 5G. Under the terms of the agreement, SK Telecom and Microsoft will combine their technological capabilities in areas such...

Companies have begun investing in AI, the next transformative technology. However, many are wasting money focusing on the wrong areas at this early stage. True, in coming years the AI revolution will completely reinvent the way we do business, but we are still just...

Ericsson announced the inauguration of its Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator (GAIA) innovation hub in Montreal, Canada. The Swedish company said that its new innovation hub will focus on research and development in artificial intelligence and automation. Ericsson said its Montréal GAIA will create more than...

  Ericsson and China Unicom have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the development of commercial 5G and promote 5G technological innovation, the vendor said in a statement. Signed at China Unicom’s 5G Innovation and Cooperation Conference in Shenzhen, China, the agreement strengthens the...

Ericsson announced the upcoming launch of Ericsson D-Fifteen, a new innovation and co-creation center at the company’s Santa Clara office, the vendor said in a release. The Swedish firm said that the new center will enable the company to bring multiple core capabilities together under...

Chinese vendor ZTE has signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with compatriot heavy equipment manufacturing company Sany to promote the integration of 5G and industry while accelerating the digital transformation of intelligent manufacturing. Under the terms of the agreement, ZTE and Sany will explore the...

Future 5G investments will focus on creating service revenues HANNOVER, Germany--Despite major marketing efforts coming out of the telecoms sector, industrial manufacturers today aren't focused on "leveraging 5G within the four walls of the plant," Accenture Senior Managing Director and Product Industry X.0 Lead Eric...

  Network and service assurance needs are evolving rapidly, as more applications — both network functions that support telecom network operations, and enterprise applications — are becoming virtualized. SNS Research estimates that service provider SDN and NFV investments will have a compound annual growth rate...

  According to the GSMA, 5G networks will cover 40% of the global population by that year 5G connections are expected to reach 1.4 billion connections by 2025, representing over 15% of the global mobile market, according to a new study by the GSMA. The report highlights...

  Other areas covered by the agreement include smart cities, network transformation and cloud services French telecom group Orange and Japanese company NTT signed a strategic research and development  framework agreement which will last until 2022. The main goal of the agreement is to share research findings in several key...

  The new offering uses AI and automation to address telecom operators’ complexity challenges   Ericsson has launched a new artificial intelligence-based managed services offering for communications service providers. The new offering, dubbed Ericsson Operations Engine, is an end-to-end managed services operating model that, through artificial intelligence and...

Metaphors aside, big data is the key to AI development We've all heard the comparison, perhaps too often, but here it is: big data is the new oil that business needs to run. But what exactly does that mean? IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, speaking to...

I read it somewhere, and it made sense; the application of new digital technologies in the global supply chain is about two critical functions – ‘sensing’ and ‘sense-making’, where the first is about connecting and managing assets in transit, and the second is about...

  The Chinese smartphone maker said these two technologies will be key for the firm’s growth strategy within the next five years   Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi announced plans to invest over CNY 10 billion ($1.48 billion) in areas related to artificial intelligence and the internet of...

Revenues generated by technology in the global supply chain will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 11 per cent over the next five years, reaching $440 billion by 2023. Among emerging technologies, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will have the most...

AI will make expense reporting, sales, manufacturing and other work applications  a lot more useful—and hopefully less annoying It’s not just your home appliances that are getting smarter. Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way not only into homes via Internet-connected speakers, thermostats, and insert-your-favorite-kitchen-gizmo-here. It is also...

Service providers are sitting on more marketable data than even Google -- but they’ve been slow to harness it for profit. Here are some ways they can turn things around Not even Google can rival the wealth of consumer data that communication service providers (CSPs)...

In part 1 of this series, we discussed the state of networks heading into 5G, and why we’ll need to move beyond today’s concept of assurance. To achieve tomorrow’s agile, self-organizing networks that can uphold absolute assurance, we’ll need five key components: AI, a...

AI/ML can provide location data used to optimize wireless performance Wireless networks are becoming increasingly complex and, with 5G looming, that will only continue as the mix and density of devices, as well as variability in application requirements, grows. A key to managing this complexity...

  Google will apply IoT, big data and AI to the targeted smart city initiatives   Google has signed an agreement with South Korean firm LG Electronics to focus on the development of smart cities powered by the internet of things, big data, and artificial intelligence, Korean...

There is massive disruption in the telecoms space, driven in the main part by the shift from proprietary hardware to commoditised hardware, and by the virtualisation of network functions in software. We are seeing this in the core network, the radio network, and at the...

Artificial intelligence is a technology that presupposes the advents before it and builds upon them to create an invention of endless applications and limitless possibilities. AI is, in no uncertain terms, a revolutionary technology with implications well beyond its surface. Research continues to further our...