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New York based system integrator Kyndryl is working with “connectivity cloud” company Cloudflare to “design, build, manage, and modernize” enterprise networking systems for global clients. Ther pair have expanded a relationship, started a year ago, to bring managed wide-area network (WAN) as-a-service and zero...

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...

Network modernization is changing what’s technologically possible for companies around the world. Through the increased speed, agility and reliability of private LTE/5G wireless networks, industries from manufacturing to mining are transforming their operations and driving innovation at a rapid pace. This growing reliance on digital...

MWC, Barcelona: System integrator Kyndryl has announced a deal with HPE-owned private 5G specialist Athonet to “jointly develop and deliver” LTE and 5G services to enterprise customers globally. The deal extends Kyndryl’s existing deal with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for its Aruba portfolio of...

Networking has had something of a shock to the system over the last few years. For a long time, its essential role in the functioning of enterprise operations went under the radar, underappreciated by most apart from those involved in technical roles. Then 2020...

US-based system integrator Kyndryl has announced a set of security edge services with Cisco to help customers improve their security controls and address and respond to cyber incidents. The twin security releases build on the pair’s collaboration and co-investment to develop scalable security offerings,...

The ‘private 5G’ partnership between system integrator Kyndryl and network vendor Nokia has so far resulted in 18 “large installations” on three continents, according to the former. Certain of them have covered enterprise environments of up to 50 square kilometres. The pair have a...

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...

US-based system integrator Kyndryl is working with Palo Alto Networks to provide network and cybersecurity services for Industry 4.0 customers running private LTE and 5G networks. The pair are combining their network security services and platform security capabilities, respectively, to design, build, and manage...

There is no blueprint for the critical Industry 4.0 edge, really; there is no way to rationalise in an easy matrix of applications and architectures which workloads stay at the edge and which go to the cloud. At least not in practical and usable...

“You can't just put on a hoodie and be down with the kids.” RCR Wireless is in conversation with Wienke Giezeman, co-founder and chief executive at The Things Industries, the Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN collective selling middleware and tooling into the hyperactive low-power end of the...

This article continues from another post, under the header: ‘They’re still figuring it out; we've moved beyond’ – Nokia expands Industry 4.0 view. Click here to read the previous instalment. The problem with Industry 4.0 in brownfield sites is that playground software is fighting for...

A couple of years back, Nokia talked up its private 5G cloud system like a Netflix-style content platform; almost three years later, it is looking to deliver on that concept by loading its MXIE edge-compute servers with Industry 4.0 applications. It is a telling...

News out of MWC a couple of weeks back that Cisco had teamed with NTT to get serious about big-ticket private 5G for multinational enterprises was somewhat overshadowed by rival HPE’s purchase of core network specialist Athonet to do the same. But that was...

The private 5G market – or at least the hard-nosed Industry 4.0 end of it – has reached an “inflection point”, reckons global system integrator Kyndryl. So much so, the firm has had to move hard to keep up with demand. “Our biggest concern...

Extended, expanded partnership tap Palo Alto Networks for private 5G security Based on a partnership initially announced in February 2022, Kyndryl and Nokia now tally 100 “active engagements” around private 5G and 4G networks, as well as mobile edge computing (MEC) technologies, for enterprises. To...

The telco hopes to spur local MEC innovation in partnership with Kyndryl and Amazon  Vodafone this week announced the opening of its Edge Innovation Lab in Salford, England. The company is collaborating with Kyndryl and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to operate the new lab, which will...

US system integrator Kyndryl has published a nice-looking blog post, complete with videos, on its headline work, announced at the start of the year, to deploy private LTE for Michigan-headquartered Dow Chemical Company, manufacturer of plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. The post puts focus...

Someone somewhere said something about 5,000 ‘private networks’ in China. (Forgive me for not having the reference to hand; I am trying to write quickly and cover ground.) The point, as always, seemed to be just that China is running away with it –...

Hybrid cloud accounted for more than a third of IBM’s total revenue IBM handily beat Wall Street expectations for its second quarter, and showed promising results as the company goes all-in on its full-stack hybrid cloud strategy. The tech giant this week reported adjusted earnings...

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...

This is a rehash (and extension, in the end) of a previous post, to an extent; but it distils the message from before, and says there are sure signs, at last, that the private cellular market, covering localised installations of enterprise-geared 5G, nominally, has...

What to say about the state of the private 5G market – about the state of ‘things’, if you like, at the top-end of the IoT game? I was asked to speak for five minutes to introduce the latest Private Networks Forum (PNF), put...

Another challenge, apart from devices, with the mission to scale industrial 5G is with sales channels. Speaking a while back, following its “flagship” arrangement with system integrator Kyndryl for its various Industry 4.0 gear, Nokia says its strategy on private networks has shifted, decisively....