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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...

Docomo, NTT add partners for 6G collaboration scheme

SK Telecom and Rohde & Schwarz are now part of this global 6G collaboration Japanese companies NTT Docomo and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) have added two new partners to their collaborative 6G trials with global vendors and carriers. The two Japanese companies said that...

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...

Cisco and NTT supply private 5G to RAI Amsterdam conference venue

RAI Amsterdam, the conference and exhibition centre in the Dutch capital, has a new private 5G network, courtesy of NTT and Cisco. The setup has been signed off in time for the Cisco Live conference at the venue this week (February 5-9). The deployment...

‘Nokia, Ericsson, us’ – three-horse race in post-hype private 5G era, reckons Celona

It is always good to talk to Celona. The California scale-up has taken a position as an agitator in the excitable private networks market, positioning itself as an enterprise-friendly alternative to the likes of Nokia and Ericsson, with a cellular system born of deliberate...

Private LTE/5G networks number 2,900 at the end of 2023

There are 2,900 private LTE/5G networks across the world at the end of 2023, including trial and pilot deployments. So says Berg Insight, which calculates a quarter (700; 24 percent) are based on 5G, with close to half of these in trial mode, but...

Arcep extends trial platform for 5G use cases

Arcep said it has awarded a total of 81 trial licenses since March 2022 French regulator Arcep said it will extend an ongoing trial platform in the 3.8 – 4.0 GHz band for manufacturers and market players wanting to experiment and test new 5G use...

NTT unites local vendors, plus Nokia and HP, on multi-vendor private 5G trials

Local mobile operator NTT East, part of the multinational NTT group, has convened a cellular-geared Industry 4.0 working group of 18 domestic and international 5G equipment vendors to collaborate on private 5G propositions for enterprises in the eastern part of Japan. The likes of...

O2 Telefónica hands Transatel MVNO deal in Germany, targeting automotive and industrial IoT

NTT-owned IoT MVNO-enabler Transatel has signed a wholesale deal with O2 Telefónica in Germany to offer IoT coverage and applications for the automotive sector and wider industrial market. The arrangement gives the France-based firm, offering local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two...

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...

NTT, Qualcomm to accelerate 5G device ecosystem for AI edge adoption

NTT exec: 'We used to say software is eating hardware; I think AI will eat software' This week, during Mobile World Congress Las Vegas, NTT and Qualcomm announced a partnership focused on bolstering the 5G device ecosystem to accelerate the global private 5G market, which...

Nokia and NTT in private 5G Thai-up private network services in Thailand

NTT is to resell Nokia's private cellular and edge cloud system to a total addressable market of 3.2 million enterprises in Thailand – in line with the country's Thailand 5.0 scheme Global system integrator NTT is to resell Nokia's private cellular and edge compute...

Postcards from the edge | Compute is critical, 5G is useful (sometimes) – says NTT

Speaking with system integrator NTT this week for an upcoming editorial report about how to allocate critical Industry 4.0 workloads, certain well-understood drivers to move computing and connectivity systems away from centralised cloud and network infrastructure onto enterprise premises were, again, made clear. The...

What’s next for Las Vegas City’s private 5G network?

Today, the private network is supporting use cases in Las Vegas such as telemedicine and remote learning, as well as some IoT capabilities In partnership with Japan-based NTT, Las Vegas City has laid claim to “the most extensive private network” in the U.S. The network...

Japan’s NTT completes successful demo towards 6G

In future 6G wireless communications systems, ultra-high-speed wireless communications are expected to be achieved by utilizing the 300 GHz band, NTT said Japanese company NTT and researchers with the Tokyo Institute of Technology announced the successful demonstration of a phased-array transmitter module to enable instantaneous...

Docomo launches mmWave managed private 5G in Hong Kong

Docomo said that the new service is offered using mmWave technology running on 26 GHz to 28 GHz spectrum Docomo Business, the enterprise business brand of Japan’s NTT Group, has launched an end-to-end, fully managed private 5G service in Hong Kong with a vendor-agnostic approach. In...

NTT deploys IoT and AI to create live digital twin of Tour de France

IT infrastructure and services company NTT is to create a digital twin of the Tour de France bike race, which starts next month (July 1), with a bunch of IoT sensing and AI sense-making technologies to provide a live visual rendering of the event...

NTT integrates 5G and TETRA for smart airport operations

NTT has developed an integrated push-to-talk (PTT) application for airport workers to switch between private 5G and terrestrial trunked radio (TETRA) communications. The solution, a joint development with Nippon Airport Radio Services (NARS), has been deployed at Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan. The...

NTT and Cisco combine on LoRaWAN IoT sustainability push for big businesses

Global system integrator NTT has announced a deal with Cisco to jointly “develop and deploy” IoT sustainability solutions for large organisations, mostly based on LoRaWAN. The new applications will be available on subscription, as-a-service, in order for enterprises to wrap their bids for sustainability...

OT-grade, IT-friendly, telco-made – Nokia eyes Industry 4.0 ‘sweet spot’

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...

‘They’re still figuring it out; we’ve moved beyond’ – Nokia expands Industry 4.0 view

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...

NTT deploys Cisco/Airspan private 5G system at RWTH university in Germany

The first fruit of NTT’s new tie-up with Cisco on private 5G; the pair have combined to deploy a private 5G network for research purposes at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, in Germany. It is that valuable thing for an industry looking...

‘Transformation at a global scale’ — NTT, SES to offer satellite-based private 5G

The private 5G offering will cover more than 190 countries NTT Ltd. is combining its fully managed private 5G and Edge Compute solutions with satellite connectivity provider SES’s medium earth orbit communications system — the O3b mPOWER — to offer Edge as a Service to enterprise...