BROWSING: Private LTE
Nokia brings slicing of radio, transport, core networks ‘step-by-step’ into private LTE / 5G
Network slicing – across the radio, the transport, and the core network – is coming to both private LTE and private 5G setups, Nokia has said. The Finnsh vendor is trialling its new slicing functionality with a trio of mobile network operators, including A1...
Private 5G network KPIs and management SLAs – who wants what from industrial 5G
US-based Federated Wireless has watched at close quarters as US enterprises have piled into the CBRS band to deploy private LTE and 5G networks. Here, Deepak Das, in the company's CTO office, describes the unfolding landscape, as enterprises put cellular to work in the...
Nokia strikes deals for LTE smart-grid in Denmark, 5G university-campus in Japan
Nokia has announced a deal with Danish network operator and internet provider Cibicom to deploy an LTE network in the 450MHz band to underpin mission critical services and “mass volume IoT adoption”. Separately, the Finnish vendor has said it is working with broadband provider...
Druid signs with Pierson, Winncom for CBRS-based private LTE deployments
Private cellular network vendor Druid Software has announced new distribution deals for its private LTE core networking solution in the US with Nebraska-based network engineering firm Pierson Wireless and Ohio-based network distributor Winncom Technologies. Both firms will sell the Irish firm’s RAEMIS core networking...
COSMOTE, Ericsson, PTC combine on ‘first’ LTE smart-factory network in Greece
Mobile operator COSMOTE has deployed the first LTE-based private campus network in Greece for smart manufacturing, it has announced. The new deployment, at a production facility belonging to Greek solar thermal manufacturer Calpak, uses a localised chunk of licensed spectrum from COSMOTE and LTE...
Private LTE / 5G market jumps seven percent during industry’s annus horribilis
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has sharpened industrial appetites for private LTE and 5G based networking solutions, with the market growing in the face of global economic crisis in 2020 by more than seven percent. So says US-based analyst group Mobile Experts, which claims first-hand...
Private 5G steadies Nokia enterprise unit – despite lower group sales, ‘challenging’ 2021
Nokia said it deployed private LTE and 5G networks with 79 new customers in the final quarter of 2020, finishing the year with 260 enterprises on its books for private wireless solutions. The company’s enterprise division saw net sales rise one percent in the...
A million private 5G networks by 2030? A million just in Europe, says Vodafone
Private LTE and 5G for industry appears to be rolling faster than anyone expected. UK-based mobile operator Vodafone took the floor at a (really cracking) private LTE and 5G event today (January 27) – organised by private network provider Athonet, beamed out of the...
Private Wireless Podcast – private 4G versus private 5G (episode #4)
RCR Wireless News · Private Wireless Podcast – Private 4G versus private 5G (episode #4)
Private 4G or 5G? That is the question, it seems, for enterprises looking at private cellular as a springboard for digital transformation. But it is not a straight choice between...
Private LTE and 5G infrastructure market to reach $5.7 billion in 2024
So says International Data Corporation (IDC), forecasting the aggregated spending on radio access (RAN), core, and transport network infrastructure, in licensed, unlicensed, and shared spectrum.
Last week, Dubai-based market intelligence outfit SNS Telecom & IT said investments in shared and unlicensed LTE and 5G spectrum...
Vodafone on 2021: IoT, 5G, MEC – and the move to performant industrial networking
Technologies have always tended to converge. Smartphones are an example of this: a phone merged with a media player and a camera to create something unique, which performs multiple tasks and addresses multiple needs at once, increasing our reliance on it.
Something similar is happening...
MulteFire Alliance on 2021: More variety and volume for private LTE and 5G
Industry 4.0 is here, and private wireless is enabling industry verticals to capitalize on the promise of this ‘fourth industrial revolution’. 2021 will see a major transformation in automation of factories, ports, and other industrial IoT venues. Enterprises are ready to automate their processes,...
Telia on 2021: Private 5G will play key role in digital change for critical industries
2020 has been a year of reckoning with a devastating human toll. Technology was a silver lining. It has helped us – as people, businesses and societies – to cope with an unprecedented situation.
Even before the pandemic, the Nordic and Baltic countries were considered...
Investments in shared and unlicensed LTE/5G spectrum to hit $4bn by 2024
Investments in shared and unlicensed LTE and 5G spectrum will reach $4bn by 2024, according to Dubai-based market intelligence outfit SNS Telecom & IT. The forecast comes on the back of broadening spectrum liberalisation in global markets in 2020, led by the CBRS scheme...
US power firm Ameren takes 900 MHz licence for private LTE network
US electricity and gas utility Ameren is to deploy a private LTE network in the 900 MHz band for customers in Missouri and Illinois. It is the first licence to be granted in the spectrum band by private networking firm Anterix, which holds the...
Dominion Energy to test private LTE in Virginia
Dominion Energy's Virginia subsidiary has received permission from the Federal Communications Commission to test a private LTE network at 900 MHz.
According to documents filed with the FCC, the power company plans to test private LTE under two scenarios over a two-year period: A...
Nokia, Omega Wireless launch 600 MHz private LTE network project
The 600 MHz private LTE network will support a number of critical applications for the New York Power Authority
Omega Wireless is using its 600 MHz licenses to deliver a private LTE network pilot program New York Power Authority (NYPA) in collaboration with Nokia. The...
Samsung, IBM collaborate on industrial private 5G and edge compute
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...
Nokia on 2021: A private 5G reality check, a private 4G mass market, a new industrial era
As we look forward to 2021, we must also reflect on this past year. In addition to tragic human cost, the pandemic cast a spotlight on the ability of business and society to cope with previously unimagined challenges.
For industries such as manufacturing, supply chain,...
How is Nokia doing with private LTE / 5G? ‘Good, better than Ericsson, except that…’
How is Nokia doing with private networks for enterprises? Pretty well, and probably better than Ericsson, choruses the analyst community in response. Except its strategy is too narrow, its offer is too inflexible, and its competition – beyond its traditional vendor peers, and beyond...
New York Power Authority to test private LTE at 900 MHz for industrial IoT, drone checks
The New York Power Authority, the largest state public power group in the US, has received permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week to experiment with private LTE at 900 MHz for industrial IoT and drone inspections.
The New York Power Authority has...
Vodafone preps 5G-MEC to complement on-prem Industry 4.0 play in Europe
Vodafone has put-live its multi-access edge computing (MEC) offer on its LTE and 5G infrastructure in the UK, with data storage and processing functionality from AWS. The 5G-MEC combo is being used in a number of industrial-IoT style pilots in the UK; further MEC...
MTS and Ericsson team up on private LTE for Russian gold miner Polymetal
Russian mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) and Swedish network vendor Ericsson are to deploy a private LTE network for Anglo-Russian mining company Polymetal. The deployment is at Polymetal’s Nezhdaninskoye gold deposit in the Republic of Sakha , in the far-east of Russia. The network...
MulteFire intros new certification regime with first devices for unlicensed LTE at 5 GHz
The MulteFire Alliance has launched a certification program for the original 1.0 version of the MulteFire specification. A radio unit and device from Nokia are the first products to go through the process. The alliance said enterprises can now deploy their own private LTE...