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Switzerland to release 3.4-3.5 GHz band for private 5G from 2024

The long tail of national regulation on ‘vertical’ private 5G spectrum continues to wag, in a slightly inconsistent manner. Swiss telecoms regulator BAKOM has announced it will open the 3400-3500 MHz (3.4-3.5 GHz) band for enterprises to deploy private 5G networks from the start...

Vendor HFR to install private 5G and Wi-Fi 6E for Korean aviation manufacturing

Network equipment vendor HFR has said it will supply a “converged private 5G and Wi-Fi 6E network” for a new industrial complex “in the metaverse” at the Kyungnam Techno-Park in the coastal city of Changwon in the southeast of South Korea. The Kyungnam/Changwon development...

Orange to build private 5G network for Aqaba container terminal in Jordan

Orange is to design and build a private 5G network at the Aqaba container terminal in Jordan, handling shipping cargo for the Levant region in the Eastern Mediterranean. It will be the first private 5G network in the country, said Orange, and the operator’s...

Postcards from the edge | Private 5G is reshaping the Industry 4.0 edge, says Nokia

The edge has always existed, as any bull-headed IT wizard will tell you; but it has not always existed like this. The edge-cloud continuum is well travelled by enterprise IT technicians, taking powerful advantage of the economies of hyper-scale afforded by cloud-based compute engines....

Transatel supplies public 5G extension for city-owned private 5G network in Toulouse

Toulouse Métropole, representing the greater city region in and around the southern city of Toulouse in France, and one of 20 metropolis regions in the country, has appointed France-based firm Transatel, owned by Japanese outfit NTT, to provide a public 5G extension to the...

Postcards from the edge | Ultra ‘six-nines’ reliability – and why it’s madness (Reader Forum)

Four nines, five nines, six nines – everyone wants more nines. Every enterprise wants ultra reliability, with guaranteed uptime of 99.99 percent (or 99.999 percent, or 99.9999 percent). But here’s the thing; a flippant rule of thumb says every extra nine in pursuit of...

Postcards from the edge | No single recipe for Industry 4.0 success, says PwC

As part of the ongoing Postcards from the Edge series, RCR Wireless caught up with Dan Hays, principal at PwC’s strategy consultancy division Strategy&, to discuss how the Industry 4.0 ecosystem might impose some kind of industrial order on the new digital chaos at...

Postcards from the edge | Rules-of-thumb for critical Industry 4.0 workloads, by Kyndryl

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...

Nokia intros industrial drone solution – to go with 5G-edge setups

Nokia has introduced a “modular and durable” industrial drone solution, Nokia Drone Networks, to run beyond-line-of-sight off a private cellular network and edge compute array. Nokia is bundling drones, a docking station, a ground control station, plus add-on IoT sensors and cameras. It is...

Verizon ready to Rocklahoma, sees growth ahead for mid-sized, private 5G networks

Campers are already on-site for what's billed as "America's biggest Labor Day party", the three-day rock festival in Pryor, Oklahoma known as Rocklahoma that will draw tens of thousands of people each day this coming weekend. Verizon Business will be supporting the event...

Hitachi demos machine vision on edge-5G at US autoplant – with Ericsson, AWS

Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has hooked up a private cellular network from Ericsson and an on-site edge engine from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run computer vision checks on a production line at its electric motor vehicle manufacturing plant in Berea, Kentucky, in the...

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...

Nokia sees rapid adoption of private 5G networks in India in 2024

Nokia noted that there is a growing interest in FWA in India Finnish vendor Nokia expects a rapid increase in the adoption of private 5G networks in India from the second half of 2024, Indian newspaper The Economic Times reported. "You will see some early adopters...

Federated Wireless to deliver private networks via VMware

The new solution will be delivered by Federated Wireless as part of its private wireless managed service Federated Wireless announced its selection by VMware to deliver private 4G and 5G networks-as-a-service for enterprises in the form of the new VMware Private Mobile Network Service. Federated Wireless...

Celona goes to Asia with roster of private 5G carrier and reseller deals

US-based private cellular specialist Celona has set up in southeast Asia via a series of channel sales deals with carriers and integrators in South Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. It follows its move beyond its original confines in the CBRS market in the US...

The private 5G culture wars – “like listening to your parents talk about sex”

“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...

Globe Telecom debuts Athonet-made private 5G in Philippines demo project

Just for the record… Globe Telecom, running the largest mobile network in the Philippines, has “successfully showcased” the country’s first standalone private 5G (5G SA) network at its own INNOVANIA technology and innovation event. It used a core network from Athonet, acquired by Hewlett...

Schneider unveils managed security service, warns of rising OT risk from 5G-IoT

On the back of its launch of a new managed security services (MSS) portfolio, France-based energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric has warned that new cellular-based operational technology (OT) solutions – advancing notably with the introduction of private 5G systems, flanked also by...

US integrator Velaspan signs with Celona to kickstart managed private 5G service

US-based enterprise connectivity integrator-reseller Velaspan has introduced a managed private LTE/5G service for large enterprise customers. The new product uses Celona’s core and radio network solution initially, and leverages the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band; it is targeted at enterprises in the construction, education, healthcare,...

Korean telco KT inks private 5G deal with HFR

HFR's my5G solution is a pre-integrated private 5G system Korean ICT solutions provider HFR announced a collaboration with compatriot operator KT n to advance technology development, expand private 5G use cases and support digital transformation for small to medium-sized enterprises, local governments and public enterprises. This...

Enterprise ABCs of private network deployment

MFA offers a number of resources for enterprises that are considering to deploy a private network MFA, the alliance for private networks, is championing the global industry adoption of private networks in any available spectrum. Via real-life private network deployments in healthcare and industrial sites,...

Three aspects of assuring private networks

Private networks present a number of challenges for testing and assurance. By their nature, private networks are delivering some type of service aspect that cannot be achieved via the public network, whether that be more secure access, targeted coverage, or more sophisticated features such...

How can private 5G help transform ports?

Huawei considers that a number of ports in Latin America, Africa and Asia are starting to see the benefits of private 5G networks already deployed in Chinese ports The 5G key pillars of speed, low latency, reliability and security have opened up new opportunities for...

How to bring private 5G to brownfield environments

While private 5G is poised to deliver major benefits to enterprise users, there are a number of complexities to deploying 5G alongside existing connectivity mediums, including 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi. In the context of private 5G for the shop floor rather than a carpeted...