Connecting people, data, machines, and supply chains is crucial for the success of the digital transformation that is accelerating the pace of business innovation. Smart factories are fast becoming a reality, with increasing amounts of data being processed by machines on the factory floor. But connecting these with global teams and dispersed supply chains is […]
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Telefonica Germany said it has installed almost 2,000 5G antennas operating in the 3.6 GHz frequency bands in around 80 cities. The company has equipped the city of Berlin with around 375 antennas, Munich with 175 antennas transmitting, Hamburg with over 150, Cologne and Stuttgart with over 120 5G antennae each. Markus Haas, CEO of […]
Google Cloud and Ericsson announced earlier this week a joint project that will provide new 5G cloud solutions to help communications service providers (CSPs) digitally transform and to unlock new enterprise and consumer use cases. The pair aims to merge Google Cloud’s services with 5G wireless equipment built by Ericsson to develop new solutions at […]
AT&T announced an agreement on Thursday to move its 5G cloud network to Microsoft’s cloud. The migration starts with the 5G core network and includes a path for all of AT&T’s mobile network traffic to be managed using Microsoft Azure. The deal represents Microsoft Azure’s first major win in the telecom market. The newer generation […]
Casa Systems, Inc. a leading provider of physical and cloud-native infrastructure technology solutions for wireless, cable and fixed broadband networks, announced on Friday the general availability of its Axyom™ 5G multi-access core as a vendor validated cloud-native digital service enablement platform for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. With Casa Systems converged […]
According to “Accelerating the 5G Industrial Revolution: State of 5G and edge in industrial operations” report released by the Capgemini Research Institute, industrial 5G adoption is still at the ideation and planning stages, with only 30 percent of industrial organizations having moved to the pilot stage or beyond. This means there is a huge window of opportunity for telcos and those […]
AT&T and the Texas A&M University System’s Rellis Campus will open private 5G testbeds this fall to public and private sector organizations, to develop 5G powered applications and products. The addition of AT&T’s 5G network is expected to power a wide range of innovations benefiting defense, commercial enterprises, and society at large. Commercial customers will […]
Omantel has successfully tested on Monday the 5G High Band at its headquarters in Madinat al Irfan under the supervision of TRA. The 5G test using the mmWave, which successfully concluded recently in association with Ericsson, demonstrated enhanced network capabilities with mmWave bandwidth more than multiple times higher than existing 5G speed. In a press […]
Ooredoo Oman said it recently recorded downlink speeds of more than 5 Gbps on a commercial 5G Massive MIMO single sector, one of the first such tests in the region. Demonstrating its technology leadership, 5G Massive MIMO delivers eight times more capacity for home internet compared to 4G, and 20 times more capacity on mobile. […]
Reliance Industries Limited said that its Jio Platforms has collaborated with U.S.-based chipmaker Qualcomm technologies for local manufacturing of “critical equipment” to catalyze the 5G ecosystem in India. Both companies previously partnered to develop “open and interoperable” interface compliant architecture based 5G solutions with a virtualized RAN and had last year achieved over a 1 […]