Ericsson buys $1.1bn Cradlepoint, puts carriers at heart of expansion strategy
Ericsson has signed off a $1.1 billion deal to purchase US-based Cradlepoint, which provides LTE and 5G wide-area networking (WAN) for the emergency services sector, office and retail spaces, and …
Bosch installs 5G traffic monitoring video sensors in Peachtree Corners
Peachtree Corners in the US, playing home to a live smart city testbed, has now installed 5G-enabled traffic monitoring video sensors. The city has signed with Bosch to deploy video-based …
PK Solutions taps Nokia, Cradlepoint to offer private LTE in CBRS for oil and gas sector
Industrial services firm PK Solutions is deploying private LTE in the 3.5 GHz CBRS band in the US for the oil and gas sector. It is working with Nokia and …
CBRS champ Celona claims private LTE deployments, carrier-beating metrics
California-based private LTE/5G startup and CBRS champ Celona has announced eight test deployments of its wireless networking solution using CBRS spectrum, along with new partnerships for CBRS-based networks with edge …
Cradlepoint White Paper: A Sensible Approach to Smart City Projects
As Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices become more and more commonplace, the uses for such devices continues to expand. One of the key places they are appearing is as part of so-called …
Smart cities: When a light is more than a light and a bus is more than a bus
There’s no master list of smart city use cases primarily because, in the right context, nearly anything could contribute to a smart city. However, some of the major ones that …
Selling smart cities: Go for grand slams or base hits?
Moving from PoC to meaningful scale with smart cities investment When imagining a smart city, many people immediately think of pervasively connected infrastructure streaming valuable data that allows city managers …
‘Some investments are just easier to justify’ – making cities smart, the Cradlepoint way
Boise-based Cradlepoint has never sought out cities to sell to; the smart cities market has come to it. The fact is, some investments are easier to justify than others, it …
Editorial Report: How to buy and sell a smart city – Procurement models to make every city smart
The problem with smart cities is no one wants to buy them. Because no one knows how to sell them. The technology is proven, but the commercial models are only …
Editorial Webinar: How to buy and sell a smart city – Procurement models to make every city smart
The problem with smart cities is no one wants to buy them. Because no one knows how to sell them. The technology is proven, but the commercial models are only …
