UK aerospace firm tests Wi-Fi 6 in industrial 5G setup, with BT, Cisco, HPE, Intel
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailUK-based Mettis Aerospace, manufacturer of components for the likes of Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce, is to test Wi-Fi 6 for connecting industrial machines and processes. The Wireless Broadband Alliance said …
BT deploys 1,000 IoT-based smart lockers across the UK
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail The smart lockers allow firms with large field engineering teams to gain more efficiency BT’s supply chain business, Final Mile, said that it has deployed 1,000 smart delivery …
UK launches 5G factory trials in Worcestershire
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Companies already testing 5G in industrial environments are Worcester Bosch and Yamazaki Mazak The U.K.’s first live 5G factory trials have been launched at the Worcestershire 5G Testbed, …
The URLLC debate (pt5): Will enterprise 5G use cases scale? (Once more; is 5G just a proving ground for 6G?)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThroughout the ‘ask-the-experts’ session at URLLC 2018 in London earlier this month, serialised here across a number of posts, the conversation circled back time and again to 5G use cases. …
The URLLC debate (pt4): What is the business case for MEC? (And where’s the edge at anyway?)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFor ultra low latency services, as enabled by incoming 5G technologies, multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a must. It provides the means to reduce latency, by degrees, as the compute …
The URLLC debate (pt1): Is 5G just a testbed for 6G? (Whisper it, is 5G the new 3G?)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail“5G will do the boring stuff first”. The low-latency pyrotechnics that will fire the industrial sector into a new gear for the first time will come much later. The version …
Why ultra-low 5G latencies are not assured, and Europe is worst placed
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe physics of time-division duplexing in radio communications means 5G could, in certain frequency bands, struggle to achieve the ultra low latencies it promises. Worse, in some markets, regulatory forces …
BT to provide IoT platform and trackers to assist UK’s flood response
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailUK telecoms provider BT is to underpin the delivery of flood response mechanisms with an ‘internet of things’ (IoT) platform for the Environment Agency in England. BT has been contract …
“We will seriously ‘productise’ CityVerve”, says Cisco, as seminal UK smart city pilot winds up
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCisco has said its so-called ‘platform-of-platforms’ has been proven as “procurable and replicable,” as Manchester’s ground-breaking CityVerve smart city pilot in the UK gets set to wind up after two …
UK carriers stump up $1.9bn for 3.4 GHz 5G spectrum
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailUK carriers have paid £1.35 billion ($1.9bn) in the first stage of bidding for new 3.4 GHz radio spectrum, for use with 5G services, including high-bandwidth IoT-based concepts like autonomous …
