BROWSING: IBM

Verizon is helping IBM expand the capabilities at its Industry Solution Lab in Coppell, Texas to include a testbed environment for developing and testing 5G-enabled use cases for Industry 4.0 applications. Verizon and IBM first collaborated on 5G and edge computing, and at Mobile World Congress...

IBM and Verizon are collaborating on 5G use cases and ‘management approaches’ for Industry 4.0 at IBM’s ‘industry solution lab’ in Texas, in the US. The pair are offering industrial enterprises a test environment to experiment with 5G networking, cloud-and-edge compute, and analytics-based AI...

Note, this is part of a forthcoming report on operator-run private 5G enterprise NOCs. Look out for the report next month; sign up here for the upcoming webinar on carrier-run private 5G enterprise NOCs, featuring ABI Research, Radisys, Vodafone and others. What do we think we know...

IBM also announced the expansion of its automation portfolio at MWC 2021 Helped along by its purchase of software company Red Hat, IBM has snagged cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) deals with Verizon and Telefonica. Using technology it obtained from the acquisition, IBM will offer the...

The pandemic gave us a glimpse at how cloud platforms and connectivity can come together to deliver ingenuity in how we connect — and we’re all eager to see how 5G and Edge computing will supercharge this opportunity. Imagine going from telehealth visits to...

IBM has said it is undecided, as yet, about whether to offer 5G network management services to enterprises, despite commentators repeatedly suggesting the New York firm might yet shape up as a prime candidate to handle the ‘run’ phase of new private cellular deployments. The...

IBM expects unprecedented 5G hypergrowth to begin around mid-decade, and the decisions made by CSPs today are critical The cloud hyperscaler dominance over legacy media companies has been making headlines lately, heightening the pressure on Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to avoid the same fate. The...

IBM president: 'The solution to the shortage involves exploring alternative ways to meet consumer demand' Towards the end of April, Intel and TSMC the indicated that the global shortage of semiconductors might continue until 2023. This week, IMB President Jim Whitehurst reportedly confirmed this...

Telefónica brand Movistar using Open RAN in Puerto Madryn, Argentina One of the persistent questions related to Open RAN is whether the shift from integrated radio stacks to multi-vendor Open RAN kit presents a trade off between lower capex with increased system integration costs. With...

IBM has teamed up with network vendor Samsung and mobile operator M1 in Singapore to open an ‘Industry 4.0 studio’, in its own name, to develop and test 5G and AI solutions for industrial applications in the Asia Pacific region. The new standalone (SA)...

Lumen Technologies and IBM have integrated IMB's Cloud Satellite with Lumen's edge platform across 180,000 global Lumen enterprise locations, in an effort to address a growing need for deployment flexibility, low-latency and data sovereignty within enterprises. With this integration, IBM says its hybrid cloud services...

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Marisa Viveros, IBM (Ep. 31) IBM's Marisa Viveros, vice president of strategy and offerings for telecom, media and entertainment, discusses the combination of 5G, network automation and mobile edge computing, and gives some insight into increasingly...

As is always the case this time of year, trade publications are rife with prediction pieces examining trends to watch in the new year. A review of the telecoms landscape comes up with a number of 5G-related watch words with stand outs including edge...

2021 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for 5G as cellular carriers ramp up deployment, new handsets enter the market, and consumers remain more dependent than ever on mobile devices amid an ongoing global pandemic. Additionally, the pandemic has driven a massive...

Samsung and IBM have announced plans to jointly advance Industry 4.0 by providing new enterprise mobile edge computing and private 5G networks solutions that run on Samsung’s 5G-enabled Galaxy devices. The pair also said that the collaboration will leverage IBM’s industry solutions driven by...

Samsung and IBM are to collaborate on on-premise industrial 5G and edge computing to drive the Industry 4.0 market, they have said. The pair want to combine their expertise in private 5G networks and edge computing, in the shape of Samsung’s 5G smartphones and...

France-based Bouygues Telecom has joined with IBM to collaborate with enterprises on industrial 5G use cases in the manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy and utilities, and smart city sectors. Bouygues Telecom said the rollout of 5G networks in France in the coming weeks will give rise...

New IBM hybrid cloud offering geared toward enterprise adoption of 5G and edge computing For operators investing billions in building 5G networks, the real revenue opportunity is not in selling enhanced services to consumers but, rather, in standing up differentiated service offerings geared toward the...

Coca-Cola European Partners has signed a multiyear agreement with IBM to move to an open hybrid cloud environment to create a “springboard” to launch IoT and AI technologies to bring new insights to its operations and drive efficiencies. Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) was formed in...

Verizon and IBM are combining their capabilities in 5G connectivity, edge and cloud computing, and data analytics to service the industrial market’s pursuit of digital change, as part of the so-called Industry 4.0 movement. The collaboration will see the pair collaborate on these various technologies...

Dell Technologies, IBM and Microsoft are developing cloud, edge, 5G strategies Operators have, across the board, acknowledged the importance of edge computing in delivering a differentiated, revenue-generating 5G service. There have also been a number of trials in key mobile markets. But, given the trajectory...

The notion of ecosystem development is a recurring part of the edge conversation. The idea is that a diversity of technologies and use cases need to be developed, requiring buy-in and coordination between not just technology vendors and network operators but also the end...

The trials are related to IBM's recent 5G edge computing offerings IBM is working with Singaporean local mobile carrier M1 and South Korean vendor Samsung to trial 5G use cases for the manufacturing sector. The trials will explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and...

It’s great to see how companies are jumping in to help battle this war with Covid-19 or coronavirus. It seems companies are helping in many different ways. AT&T is offering a new, low cost plan and more data for their customers during this crisis....