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Cisco and NTT collaborate on private 5G solutions for global enterprises

Cisco and NTT announced a deal to collaborate on private 5G in the automotive, logistics, healthcare, retail, and public sectors. They said they will “co-innovate”, and combine to bring to market both “technology and managed services”. Specifically, they said they would combine NTT’s managed...

China ramps up 6G R&D focus to spur Industry 4.0 drive

The Chinese government is to put major focus on 6G technologies, according to Chinese state newspaper Global Times. It reckons China has a competitive advantage in cellular because of its technology capability and application scenarios, said the report. An official from the Ministry of Industry...

Nokia gets nod from Indonesian telco IOH to build region-wide private network for Industry 4.0

Indonesian telecoms operator Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has appointed Finnish vendor Nokia to build a wide-area private wireless network in certain regions across the country. The brief from IOH, formalised in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nokia, is to build new cellular infrastructure...

Telefónica demos edge-5G, digital twins, and blockchain for smart factories, farms

MWC, Barcelona: Spanish telco Telefónica has unveiled a 5G-connected digital twin designed to optimize quality in the production of industrial parts. The digital twin also has the the capacity to make decisions in real time, it said. Telefónica’s digital twin features a KR4 robotic arm,...

Deutsche Telekom partners with Microsoft on private 5G to target SMEs

Deutsche Telekom is to introduce a cheaper and simpler private 5G network offer for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using Microsoft’s multi-access edge compute (MEC) bundle, which includes a cellular core network and “RAN components” from the Redmond firm, plus sundry compute and application...

Microsoft adds BICS to private MEC bundle for private-to-public network roaming

Carrier services company BICS is providing private-to-public network roaming for enterprises installing private 5G networks from Microsoft. BICS said the pair have “collaborated to solve the challenges” of IoT roaming between private enterprise networks and public operator networks. The Belgium-based firm is providing roaming...

Dell, Airspan open private 5G members’ clubs for operators, integrators

Dell Technologies kicked off a private 5G charm offensive with the operator set last week, in time for MWC, offering pre-tested and validated edge compute and networking solutions, plus system integration and support, for operators to sell private 5G to enterprises. At the outset,...

Bosch and Nokia combine on 6G research for Industry 4.0

MWC 2023: Bosch has said it is working with Nokia to develop industrial IoT solutions based on incoming 6G cellular networks. It follows the same joint work, formalised by the pair in a partnership in 2017, on 5G networks, now coming to market, mostly...

Private 5G will be worth $96bn by 2030 – but half will go on problem-solving SI services

Ahead of a big week in Barcelona, when the telecoms set hits town for its annual MWC jamboree, and when the only talk of any outward substance will be about edge-based 5G for enterprises, analyst house ABI Research has stuck out a revised forecast...

HPE buys Athonet – ignites private 5G play, lights MWC touchpaper

Game, set, and match at MWC, and the contest hasn’t even started. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has bought Italian private core network specialist Athonet for an undisclosed fee. For our money (old Enterprise IoT Insights money), this is likely to be the biggest news...

RAKwireless intros integrate private 5G box solution for Industry 4.0 developers

RAKwireless, making hardware systems for the LoRaWAN-end of the IoT market, notably for the Helium community networks movement, has launched a ‘5G-in-a-box’ hotspot solution, available to system integrators and enterprises to support private 5G setups and experiments. The package features dual 5G and LTE...

Nokia and Bosch carry out 5G positioning proof-of-concept

Nokia said that the proof-of-concept was deployed in a Bosch production plant in Germany Nokia and Bosch are jointly working on the development of a 5G-based precision positioning technology targeting new Industry 4.0 use cases, the vendor said in a release. The two firms have deployed...

Nokia boosts MXIE portfolio with top-end Dell server for intensive Industry 4.0 workloads

Nokia has bolstered its MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) hardware portfolio with a top-end server blade from Dell for hard-working Industry 4.0 installations on its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private 5G platform. The new Dell server, in the form of the PowerEdge XR11, goes alongside...

What the new year has in store for networks and OSS modernization (Reader Forum)

We’re now firmly in the world of 5G. Well before the rapidly growing deployments of 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) networks, the technology’s potential has been hyped up as the key to delivering Industry 4.0 and innovative new services based on edge cloud, Internet of Things...

MCS & Nokia: How to kick-start your Industry 4.0 digitalization journey (Episode 1)

Increased productivity, better operational resilience and improved worker safety – Industry 4.0 digitalization has proven to be a game-changer for many industries. To unlock the benefits of digital transformation, enterprises first need a robust foundation of high-performance connectivity throughout their operating site. A great way...

Nokia extends private 5G lab tests to validate Industry 4.0 devices, use cases

Nokia has expanded its private 4G/5G test lab facility, called ‘Lab-as-a-Service’, to validate third-party industrial equipment and devices connecting on its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) and Modular Private Wireless (MPW) private LTE (4G) and 5G network solutions. The service, free to customers, supports device...

Cisco closes IT/OT divide with new cloud tools for remote IoT management, security

Cisco has introduced a number of new cloud services in its IoT operations dashboard to increase industrial asset visibility and manage assets remotely and securely. At its annual Cisco Live event in Amsterdam, the firm said it had focused on ways to bridge the...

What is Industry 5.0? (And what’s the beef with Industry 4.0?)

The first plenary session at IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona last week saw an address by the European Commission about Industry 5.0. Say what? Industry 5.0? What about Industry 4.0? Are we done with that already? Are we finished with this process...

Germany ramps-up smart electric meter rollout to hit 2030 ‘zero-energy’ deadline

The German government has passed a bill, to come into force in the next few months, to accelerate smart electricity meter rollout by removing competition restrictions on hardware selection and making grid operators shoulder more of the cost. The Ministry for Economic Affairs and...

Five key IoT trends for the logistics sector – supply chains in 2023 (Reader Forum)

Tech trends in the logistics sector, in general, have not changed much in the past few years, and IoT remains in the spotlight. However, the accent has shifted. 2022 showed how vulnerable a logistics network really is, with unprecedented disruptions to supply chains, closures...

A note about Enterprise IoT Insights… last orders at the bar, the party is moving on

This is difficult to write. It is a pivotal moment for IoT, and we think – the team at Arden Media, publisher of RCR Wireless News and Enterprise IoT Insights thinks – that it will not survive. At least, not as we know it, or...

Amdocs teases new private 5G use cases – in healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing

US telecoms software and services outfit Amdocs has claimed to have developed a bunch of new private 5G use cases at its sandbox lab in Dallas, Texas. The new applications, being prepped for show at MWC in a couple of weeks, include 5G-sprung scenarios...

EU backs $100m venture capital fund for ‘Industry 5.0’ (Industry 4.0 with-a-conscience)

Zurich-based venture capital group Momenta has launched a $100 million target fund for ‘Industry 5.0’ tech – basically, for startups pushing Industry 4.0 with-a-conscience. The new fund is backed by the European Commission, which told IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona, where the...

Cellnex, Nokia win €20.5m deal to build private and public 5G at 10 Spanish rail terminals

Rail infrastructure operator Adif Alta Velocidad (Adif AV) has handed Cellnex Telecom and Nokia a €20.5 million contract to build private 5G and public 5G networks to connect, digitalise, and automate its rail logistics centres in Spain. They have just over five years (62...