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Nokia preps ultra-compact private 5G to target 10m industrial SMEs

Nokia is preparing an ultra-compact version of its private cellular network solution to pitch to the small-and-medium sized enterprise (SME) market, particularly as it aligns with its focus on selling edge-based network-and-compute solutions to Industry 4.0 sectors. Speaking with RCR Wireless at Mobile World...

“We’re agnostic, but we have a view” – Accenture on how to captain Industry 4.0

This article, recounting an interview with Accenture’s ‘cloud-first’ commander Jefferson Wang at MWC at the end of last month, might be taken as a companion piece, of sorts, with last week’s replay of an MWC meeting with Jennifer Artley (see here and here), in...

‘Land and expand’ – Verizon’s big private 5G play (‘different to how we ever worked’)

Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, under the title: Pragmatism, partnership, progress – private 5G pipe ‘doubles’ for Verizon. Go here for the first part. As written, and to recap... Jennifer Artley is in charge of the fast-expanding ‘5G acceleration’ team...

Red Hat talks-up edge AI advances for private 5G and Industry 4.0

MWC, Barcelona; last week. Red Hat and Intel have developed a (relatively) easy and cheap edge/cloud computing solution for enterprises to deploy and multiply AI-based applications on private 5G networks. The duo have a reference solution, they said, which easily flexes distributed edge/cloud compute...

NTT and Schneider integrate private 5G into edge data-center bundle for Industry 4.0

MWC, Barcelona: UK-headquartered NTT has announced a go-to-market deal with energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric to combine private 5G with the French firm’s ‘modular data centre’ proposition. They are pitching to industrial firms with large factories and remote sites. The solution uses...

Trinity Broadcasting Network gets private 5G from Trilogy NextGen, Ericsson, Azure

For the private-5G record… Texas-based private cellular and broadcast technology company Trilogy NextGen has installed an Ericsson-made private 5G network at the new Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) studio in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The network, which also combines multi-access edge compute (MEC) from Microsoft...

Intel touts ‘mainstream’ private 5G ahead of MWC – with AWS, Cisco, Nokia, NTT etc

Intel is pushing the private 5G angle ahead of MWC in Barcelona at the end of the month – plus the AI one, the edge one, the transformation one, and the ecosystem one. It has issued a press announcement to trumpet its involvement in...

EY opens ‘edge lab’ for AI systems in Industry 4.0 – Dell, PTC, GE, Microsoft involved

Professional services outfit Ernst & Young (EY) is to open an edge technologies lab (EY Edge Technologies Lab) in London with US-based Dell Technologies to demonstrate and develop edge-based “ecosystem technologies” to help enterprises with digital transformation. The venue will focus on industry-specific use...

Five easy pieces – how to get a tune out of Industry 4.0

This is not a definitive guide; this is not an exact science. But the logic is plain – to present a sensible way to think about devising an Industry 4.0 system that hits the mark. Because, when novel technology is brought to market by...

Hitachi splits Vantara in two – separates IoT/IT/OT solutions from cloud infra services

A piece of news from the back-end of last year, but worth memorialising here, in light of Hitachi Vantara’s early role in driving Industry 4.0 with its Lumada IoT platform, and its strategy and thought leadership to develop the co-creation story in digital transformation...

Nokia intros Federal Solutions unit to sell private 5G to U.S. government agencies

Nokia has launched a dedicated business unit in the U.S. to deliver private cellular, edge computing, and other critical connected solutions to the federal government. The new unit, called Nokia Federal Solutions, has been “bolstered”, the company said, by its recent acquisition of the...

Seven IoT reports to set you up for 2024 – on cellular/non-cellular edge/cloud private/public IoT

Some new-year reading, before the 2024 news agenda goes into over-drive; here, the enterprise team at RCR Wireless picks some choice long-form reports from 2023 about all-things IoT (low- and high-power, and in between) to set the conversation for 2024-in-tech. Enjoy. 1 | Smart...

Green energy is driving hybrid and open edge-cloud architectures (Reader Forum)

Power distribution systems are rapidly evolving across the world in an effort to reduce carbon emissions and meet bold climate goals. Today, governments at the national, state and local levels are collectively investing trillions of dollars to build renewable energy sources and modernize their...

From the high seas to outer space – four IoT tracking trends in 2024 (Reader Forum)

Based on his insights gained over the past decade, Kristoff Van Rattinghe, chief executive at Belgium-founded IoT tracking firm Sensolus, discusses how IoT technology is developing and the trends companies can expect in 2024. Containers, pallets, special loading racks, trailers, boxes and mobile machinery –...

BT stitches metro edge connectivity and computing into Global Fabric service

BT has started to roll-out its global network-as-a-service (NaaS) offer in carrier neutral metro-edge cloud facilities (CNFs) around the world. The service, offered as Global Fabric, was announced in October; the UK-based telecoms group has since expanded a deal with US real estate investment...

Open5G: Where telecom leaders share their open source wisdom

On November 15, Red Hat hosted its fourth annual Open5G virtual event, with session tracks dedicated to open source advancements in 5G core, RAN, edge, cloud, AI, sustainability and more - discussed from the perspectives of over 25 leading service providers and key partners,...

Battery maker Basquevolt taps Telefónica for URLLC factory upgrade (minus 5G, Wi-Fi)

Telefónica and Siemens are to provide Spanish battery manufacturer Basquevolt with the “best technological and connectivity solutions” to launch a new “prototyping line” at its plant in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country region in northern Spain. The project specifies an ultra-fast and...

What goes where – deconstructing critical 5G edge/cloud workloads

Note, this article is taken from the RCR editorial report on Critical 5G Edge Workloads, published in September. The following is the first part of the foreword to the report. Go here to download the full report. The subject will be further explored in the upcoming...

Critical-edge 5G workloads for industrial IoT — what stays and what goes?

The grand combined promise of 5G networking and edge computing for enterprises is to max out the performance, reliability, and security of mission- and business-critical Industry 4.0 systems.But which workloads should always stay on-prem, for reasons of security and performance, and which can be...

Volt Active Data Webinar: Speed Matters: Deep-Dive into the Importance of End-to-End Latency for Edge and IoT Use Cases

In a world that is becoming increasingly digitally connected and transformed, speed is king. Whether it's the time it takes for a webpage to load, a video to buffer, or a transaction to be processed, latency plays a crucial role in user experience and...

Postcards from the edge | Cloud-to-edge consistency is everything, says AWS

ACHTUNG! THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE TO JOIN THE WEBINAR ON CRITICAL 5G EDGE WORKLOADS ON SEPTEMBER 27 (TOMORROW). JOIN HERE – IT'S FREE, AND NOT-TO-BE-MISSED! You know the drill by now; you know the questions. Here is the response from AWS, with the latest...

Telefónica to bundle and build Snowflake multi-cloud services for Euro enterprises

Telefónica Tech, the digital services and enterprise transformation unit with Spain-based telecoms group Telefónica, has a new deal with enterprise data services provider Snowflake, to sell the US firm’s hybrid edge-cloud (“multi-cloud”) services to enterprises in Europe. Telefónica Tech is to bundle Snowflake services...

Postcards from the edge | The critical 5G edge is ‘best of both worlds’, says Siemens

If you want to know about what to do with sensitive data in operational technology (OT) systems – how to prioritise and segment it, where to place it between the edge and the cloud, and how to retrieve it at both ends (and anywhere...

AWS intros edge management service for critical workloads in enterprise infrastructure

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a new managed edge service under the banner AWS Dedicated Local Zones. The new services means enterprises can build their own compute infrastructure on their own privately-owned premises, either at a main operational site or a dedicated server...