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Cisco announces financing program for customers impacted by COVID-19

  Cisco has announced a number of initiatives to provide financing for customers in a move to try to mitigate the financial challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The new Business Resiliency Program is being offered through Cisco Capital, a financing business within Cisco, and includes...

Open vRAN ‘blueprint’ basis of integrated 5G bundle

Cisco, Altiostar, WWT creating vRAN hardware/software/services bundle to drive 5G deployment Building a virtualized radio access network built of best-of-breed components made interoperable through the work of groups like the O-RAN Alliance and Telecom Infra Project is seen as a way to drive 5G scale...

Cisco aims to expand IoT reach with Fluidmesh acquisition

Mission critical IoT connectivity a goal of Cisco acquisition U.S. networking company Cisco announced the intent to acquire privately-held Fluidmesh Networks, a specialist in wireless backhaul systems, the former said in a release. Fluidmesh’s technology delivers wireless solutions for mission critical applications. Fluidmesh’s solutions are quick to deploy...

WBA to take control of Wi-Fi OpenRoaming

Cisco: 'OpenRoaming is vital to unlocking the potential of wireless communications' The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) will assume ownership and management of OpenRoaming as a global wireless industry standard, which the alliance stated will facilitate the broad adoption of OpenRoaming by new and existing Wi-Fi...

Samsung signs 5G contract with Spark New Zealand

  Samsung Electronics announced it has signed a commercial agreement with New Zealand’s largest mobile carrier, Spark, to take part in building Spark’s 5G network in 2020. The South Korean vendor carrier out 5G trials with Spark last year.These trials used Samsung’s 5G end-to-end solutions to...

Cisco taps public Wi-Fi to unburden 5G networks of data from driverless cars

Cisco is working with Oxford University spin-out company Oxbotica on a UK trial to explore how autonomous vehicles can securely and automatically share data via public Wi-Fi hotspots. The idea is to utilize public Wi-Fi infrastructure to support their access to data, as autonomous vehicles...

Cisco adds new capabilities to its IoT porfolio

  Cisco has announced advancements to its IoT portfolio that enable service provider partners to offer optimized management of cellular IoT environments and new 5G use-cases, the company said in a release. Cisco highlighted that new wireless technologies – such as 5G and Wi-Fi 6 –...

Private nets with Voda, Industry 4.0 with Ford, Robin Hood lives – UK’s £35m 5G trials

The UK government has announced the winners of a £35 million funding pot for rural and industrial 5G projects, alongside a new $30 million 5G development competition for the media, gaming, logistics, and tourism sectors. Projects include private networking with Vodafone, Industry 4.0 with...

Bell to launch 5G services this year using Nokia’s RAN equipment: CEO

  Bell Canada expects to start the construction of its 5G network this year, using equipment from Finnish vendor Nokia, the company’s CEO Mirko Bibic said during a conference call with investors. “Nokia will be the first provider of 5G RAN equipment in our network. And...

Cisco intros new IoT security architecture

  Cisco introduced an IoT security architecture that provides enhanced visibility across both IT and IoT environments, and protects processes, the networking company said in a release. Cisco said its new solutions enable the collection and extraction of data from the IoT edge, so organizations can...

Cisco to provide Wi-Fi 6 to MWC Barcelona venue

Wi-Fi 6 to boost speed by 40% for Mobile World Congress Barcelona In preparation for Mobile World Congress Barcelona taking place at the end of February, the venue where the show will take place, Fira Barcelona, has begun working with Cisco to deploy Wi-Fi 6...

Saudi carriers accelerate deployment of comercial 5G networks

Zain planning 2,000 5G towers in initial rollout Mobile operators in Saudi Arabia have been accelerating the deployment of 5G networks across the Kingdom during the second half of 2019 after the government awarded spectrum for the provision of this technology. In November, Middle East telecom...

Cisco: ‘In 2020, we can stop arguing about whether 5G is here’

Mobile connectivity will soon become frictionless and omnipresent, according to Cisco According to Bob Everson, global director of mobility and 5G at Cisco, the debate about whether 5G is truly here will come to a close in 2020, and we will "actually experience what it...

OSIsoft on 2020: 3D goes 4D, a sharper edge, AI gets knocked down – 10 IoT predictions

Michael Kanellos, IoT analyst, OSIsoft: 1. IoT declares victory “IoT projects are often portrayed as the quickest way to get yourself fired with, allegedly, ‘close to three fourths’ of IoT projects failing. In reality, success is the norm. “Gartner’s Eric Goodness conducted a poll that 57 per...

Cisco: Cloud gaming is a ‘killer use case’ for 5G

2021 will see a 57% compound annual growth rate for gaming traffic on the Internet, according to Cisco report From Cisco’s point of view, developing cloud gaming is about the 5G network architecture, Cisco’s Lead Global Systems Architect 5G Ron Malenfant told RCR Wireless News....

Rotterdam recruits Traxens to handle IoT data for Container 42 smart-port project

French IoT firm Traxens has joined the Port of Rotterdam’s new smart container project, Container 42. It will provide the sensors in the container, to measure various physical and environmental impacts, as the container makes its way around the world in a bid to...

Altiostar: ‘The status quo cannot deliver on the premise of 5G’

Combo of open RAN, edge compute central to 5G service delivery LOS ANGELES--Today 5G is quite possibly the hottest topic in Los Angeles County, which would place it high in the running for hottest topic worldwide. But sometimes there's a topic, sometimes, there's a technology....

Cisco, Connexin deliver UK’s first purpose-built Smart City Operating System

The Smart City Operating System will turn the city of Hull into a programmable city Hull, a city located on England’s north-east coast, will become the first city in the U.K. to establish a purpose-built Smart City Operating System (OS). Using an internet of things...

Tech Mahindra and Cisco devise 5G factory blueprint for Industry 4.0

Tech Mahindra and Cisco have come up with a new digital factory blueprint that puts 5G at the heart industrial operations. Tech Mahindra said the solution sets a model for IT-OT integration and security.  The solution covers certain factory functions, including wireless networking on the...

US looks to facilitate financing for European 5G vendors: Report

Latest 5G financing moves part of larger US/China trade war The U.S. government is studying alternatives to facilitate financing to European 5G vendors Ericsson a Nokia in a move to put obstacles to the global expansion of Huawei, according to a report by the Financial...

Cisco believes 5G will benefit rural UK, but will it?

Rural UK users are skeptical about being able to access new 5G networks As 5G networks continue to sweep across the world promising to bring a new era of connectivity to consumers and enterprise users, an important conversation around the future of rural connectivity has...

5G lessons we can learn from Reliance Jio and Rakuten

A cloud-first strategy takes cost out of 5G, setting the stage for profitability SINGAPORE--To be clear, neither Reliance Jio in India or Rakuten in Japan currently offer 5G services. In fact, Rakuten recently delayed the launch of its LTE network. Nevertheless, the two operators have...

McRock Capital gets funding for Industrial IoT projects

Canadian investment company McRock Capital has held an initial closing on its second venture capital fund, McRock Fund II LP, dedicated to investing in the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) space.  The new fund has reached over 80% of its targeted CAD100 million ($75.9 million). Investors include...

NIB: Altair’s IoT chip ‘revolution’; Rockwell’s cyber alliance; Cisco and Actility’s LoRa trip

1 | GCF certification sets Altair to “revolutionise cellular IoT” Cellular IoT chipset maker Altair Semiconductor, owned by Sony Corporation, has announced its lab has been officially authorised by the Global Certification Forum (GCF). The GCF quality mark for interoperability is considered to be...