BROWSING: AWS

Amazon, Axiom Space bring edge computing to low earth orbit

The future of the edge is space, says AWS, now that Axiom Space has certified and tested AWS Snowcone on the International Space Station.

AWS expands presence in the Nordic, Baltic regions via new Tele2 deal

As part of the collaboration, Tele2 now joins the AWS Partner Network (APN) Nordic operator Tele2 announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance the cloud services and cloud management portfolio that it offers to its customers, the former said in a release. Under...

Athonet makes private 5G club to handle the sell-build-run of CBRS networks in the US

Consortiums, alliances, ecosystems – there are too many to count, and too many to report. But news that Athonet has started its own private 5G club in the US, to combine and recommend suppliers for deploying cellular networks in shared and unshared CBRS spectrum,...

New survey shows increasing interest in O-RAN approach

Some 55% of survey respondents said they are seriously considering an O-RAN strategy Research by U.S. manufacturing services company Jabil has found a growing interest by companies to adopt an Open RAN (O-RAN) approach. A survey of 193 companies conducted for Jabil by SIS International Research...

Global IoT community set for jamboree LoRaWAN event in Paris (Sponsored)

The LoRa Alliance expects over 2,000 delegates in Paris next week (July 6-7) for the LoRaWAN World Expo, billed as its first global jamboree event for the LoRaWAN community, and the wider IoT market beyond. It is set to be, by some margin, the...

Google makes private 5G play – with Betacom, Boingo, Celona, and others

Google Cloud has followed hyperscale mega-rivals Microsoft and AWS into the private 5G market with a bunch of specialist vendor and channel partners, starting with Betacom, Boingo Wireless, Celona, Crown Castle, and Kajeet. It said it is offering “turn-key” private 5G with the option...

Integration, simplification, multiplication – three signs private 5G has come of age

This is a rehash (and extension, in the end) of a previous post, to an extent; but it distils the message from before, and says there are sure signs, at last, that the private cellular market, covering localised installations of enterprise-geared 5G, nominally, has...

Softbank takes equity stake in 1NCE – as “only company that can deliver global IoT”

Global cellular IoT provider 1NCE has confirmed a long-trailed deal with Softbank, a major investor already in the firm, to release equity to the Japan-based carrier in return for exclusive distribution rights in Asia Pacific. Softbank will sell 1NCE in 19 markets in the...

Fujitsu, AWS to boost digital transformation in finance and retail industries

Using AWS, Fujitsu will develop fully managed services that package everything from cloud infrastructure to services   Japanese company Fujitsu has recently announced a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate the digital transformation of customers in the financial and retail industries with...

Verizon, AWS expand MEC footprint to Nashville, Tampa

Verizon and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of new mobile edge computing (MEC) zones for Nashville, TN and Tampa, FL.

BT picks AWS for cloudification

BT has picked AWS to help its ambitious digital transformation, with a particular attention to containers and serverless technology.

Bell signs 5G MEC partnership with AWS

Bell had launched its commercial 5G service in Canada in June 2020 Canadian mobile operator Bell announced the launch of a public multi-access edge computing (MEC) with AWS Wavelength in Canada. As part of a previous agreement between the two firms, Bell and AWS are deploying...

Software AG intros new TrendMiner client for industrial AI in process manufacturing

Belgium-based advanced analytics firm TrendMiner, part of German software vendor Software AG, has released an upgraded production client for industrial analytics in process manufacturing industries. The new TrendMiner release – literally, for mining analytics trends in time-series data – caters to OT-side industrial operators,...

‘Scale is the thing’ – Schneider Electric sets out strategy as private 5G user and reseller

Note, for more on this topic, and more on Schneider Electric's private 5G story, catch Zach Nimboorkar on the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on April 28 on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard). He is joined by speakers from ABI Research, MFA...

Volume, complexity, security to drive IoT device management sales to $36bn by 2026

Global revenues from IoT device management services will top $36.8 billion by 2026, according to ABI Research. The forecast represents a compound annual jump (CAGR) of 17.1 percent, from around $16.7 billion at the end of 2021. It said spiralling interest in IoT device...

Verizon invests in Casa Systems, strikes multi-year 5G core/edge deal

Casa Systems stock price popped 40% after Verizon took 9.9% ownership stake Verizon has taken a keen interest in vendor Casa Systems. In addition to striking a multi-year deal to supply 5G core network functions, Verizon is also investing approximately $40 million into the U.S.-based...

A ‘most complex’ challenge – Bosch and AWS knit together global logistics services

Bosch and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are combining on a new digital services platform for the logistics industry, to launch in Europe, India, and the US in late 2022. Bosch is in charge of the platform itself, developing and operating the solution, which includes...

Verizon VP talks public cloud for network workloads and Open RAN interop

Verizon sees its network future in a private, telco-grade cloud 5G has long been described as the first generation of cellular born in the cloud. While that's a reductive statement, operators are moving network functions and operational processes into the cloud, there's a heavily-debated question:...

AWS collaborates with ARC to support the ‘Internet of Battlefield Things’

ARC said the partnership aims to help shape the future of ground warfare with weapons sensing and other technologies   Armaments Research Company (ARC) announced a collaboration with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Federal Small Business Team with the aim of helping shape the future of...

Private LTE/5G nets to hit 13,500 in ’26, 5G to lead from ’24, 5G IoT devices to flow from ’23

The total number of private LTE and 5G networks will increase to 13,500 installations globally by 2026, according to analyst group Berg Insight; this is a 10-fold increase, roughly, from a figure today of “more than” 1,000 private LTE deployments and 200–300 private 5G...

How is DISH approaching 5G monetization?

Competitors are focused on FWA and MEC as routes to 5G monetization With operators spending billions to deploy, package and sell connectivity-backed solutions, 5G monetization has moved front-and-center in operator's messaging. Verizon, for instance, recently laid out its three-year service revenue outlook and sees fixed...

Ignion taps AWS to power new digital-twin design platform for ‘virtual’ IoT antennas

Barcelona based IoT antenna company Ignion is promising to reduce IoT antenna design “from days or weeks to minutes”, following the release of its new design and simulation platform on AWS. The platform, it said, will allow developers to integrate its so-called ‘virtual antenna’...

Bouygues to shut down LoRaWAN in France – the start of the end for unlicensed IoT?

Bouygues Telecom has announced it will shut down its LoRaWAN network in France from 2024, and start to sell new IoT business and migrate existing IoT accounts to its cellular-based NB-IoT and LTE-M networks. Following the bankruptcy last month of rival IoT firm Sigfox,...

Microsoft Defender for Cloud adds Google Cloud support

Microsoft Defender for Cloud has added Google Cloud to its Cloud Security Posture Management support, after adding AWS in 2021.