Anritsu and InterDigital have combined on a new smart factory demo to showcase the “feasibility and readiness” of carrier-led 5G and multi-access edge compute (MEC) for Industry 4.0 use cases.  …

    The German federal network agency Bundesnetzagentur has already awarded 123 spectrum licenses for private 5G campus networks. The Federal Network Agency provides the spectrum in the range 3.7-3.8 …

Telefónica has signed a deal with Microsoft to combine their private 5G networking and edge computing capabilities, respectively, for the industrial sector. The pair said their “joint vision” is to …

Microsoft and Siemens have signed up to the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, a two-year old consortium of “European” industrial companies geared to drive cross-vendor interoperability for factories and warehouses. They …

Japanese IT company Fujitsu and US-Japanese cyber security company Trend Micro have partnered to “focus on” the security of private 5G networks. The pair said they will use a simulated …

It is just another networking technology, after all; Appledore Research tells of the trouble with the telco sector’s ‘god complex’. Note, this is an excerpt from an interview that appears …

It sounded, at the time, like a sci-fi vision of the future of manufacturing: that with a hyper-connected 5G factory, the only fixed assets will be the floors, walls and …

As promised last week, in an op-ed write-around of the same conversation, here is the full interview with Phil Skipper, group head of IoT business development at Vodafone, on the …

Software AG and SAP have announced a deal to offer the former’s TrendMiner industrial analytics software on the latter’s industrial cloud platform for Industry 4.0 operations. The pair said factories …

The World Economic Forum has added 15 new ‘smart’ manufacturing sites to its ‘global lighthouse network’, and claimed production output among Industry 4.0 leaders spiralled upwards by 93 percent in …