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News & Views Most Popular Comcast's Industrial IoT Platform Has Global Potential By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/16/2018 'We're effectively IoT over the top,' machineQ exec says. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Telefónica Hooks Up With Stratio to Bolster Big Data Offer By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/15/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Orange smartens up electricity network; Ericsson's car pool wants some EU love for C-V2X; GSMA not happy at German 5G spectrum conditions. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Telefónica & IBM Explore the Telco Potential of Blockchain By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/14/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson upgrades Telenor's core network; Iliad thrives in Italy but struggles in France; semi-autonomous barges float Nokia's boat. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Ericsson Takes Startup Approach With 'Edge Gravity' By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/14/2018 Newly named unit has built a global edge cloud platform that connects a core network to dozens of last-mile service provider networks and a unified software stack. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 5G & the Factory of the Future By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 11/13/2018 What's latency got to do with it? Quite a bit actually... Post a Comment \| Read (16 comments) Latest Comment: DanJones Nokia, was using a couple of Bosch robot arms for demos last week. They didn't... Ericsson's CTO Talks Up 5G Opportunities By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 11/9/2018 CTO says Erisson is already an early 5G leader, 'in technical terms.' Post a Comment \| Read (0) Is Arris the Answer to CommScope's Pain? By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/8/2018 Arris deal presented 'best path' after CommScope analyzed how to rejuvenate its business and shore up its positioning for the 5G era, CEO says. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: bosco_pcs Not if you view this as a private equity special. ARRS got some valuable assets.... Advertisement Faster Mobile Will Not Justify €2.4B 5G Spectrum Fee, Says Telecom Italia Exec By Iain Morris, International Editor, 11/8/2018 Despite his high-speed name, Telecom Italia's Giuseppe Ferraris is concerned about any 5G business case based entirely on providing faster mobile connectivity to consumers. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: johnwright The 5g connection is coming and we all know that it is going to be the advanced... CommScope Puts Up $7.4B for Arris By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/8/2018 They expect the merger, valuing Arris at $31.75 per share with an eye fixed on the 5G era, to produce annual cost synergies of more than $150 million within three years. Post a Comment \| Read (7 comments) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner Among other reax to the deal, Raymond James analyst Simon Leopold has downgraded... Eurobites: US Unit Continues to Power Deutsche Telekom Growth By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/8/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: VEON blown off course by currency fluctuations; Orange launches LTE-M network in France; Virgin Media adds units; O2 goes driverless; smart speakers don't speak Finnish. Post a Comment \| Read (0) New Website Promotes Automation, Announces First Partnership By Denise Culver, Online Research Director, 11/7/2018 Recognizing that service providers are heeding the hue and cry to automate or die, Light Reading has created a new online marketplace, Automation Exchange. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Public Safety Agencies Exhorted to Embrace Cloud By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 11/7/2018 Public safety expert tells conference there's no reason agencies can't be 'mobile-first' and consume as-a-service apps immediately to save more lives. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: EU Makes Life Awkward for OTT Video Crew By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/7/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: EU approves Disney-Fox deal; Nokia helps create private LTE network for BMW in China, gets cozy with Infosys; Hyperoptic attracts Middle Eastern money; Three UK trumpets 5G progress. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: indesilife Bhabhiji Ghar Par Hai is an Indian television sequential having First Episode... Nokia Reveals Future X Network Project By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 11/7/2018 Nokia and Bell Labs have big plans for the future of IoT. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Sierra Wireless Has First CBRS Module Approved by FCC By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 11/6/2018 Sierra Wireless gets first CBRS module approved by FCC, paving the way for private LTE networks. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: KPN Lubricates Shell's Industrial Processes With a Squirt of 5G By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/6/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telia clears out of Kazakhstan; Openreach brings fiber to Nottingham and Belfast; EU divided over digital services tax. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Microsoft & Walmart Heat Up Amazon War By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/6/2018 The two companies are collaborating in a 'cloud factory' in Austin, Texas, to migrate thousands of Walmart apps to the Microsoft Azure cloud. And that's just the beginning. Post a Comment \| Read (0) How Red Hat Could Give IBM's Telco Strategy a New Lease of Life By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/5/2018 With telco cloud and open source developments playing a key role in network operator strategies, Red Hat's acquisition could bolster IBM's opportunities with communications service provider customers. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: bosco_pcs This CSP angle is a more substantive than most the run-of-the-mill IBM + Red... Eurobites: US Lawsuit Alleges Corruption at Iraq's Korek Telecom By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/5/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Hyperoptic extends Thurrock network; Synamedia appoints new CFO; streaming VoD turns into a torrent. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Making Smart Cities Smarter By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/5/2018 At SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in Atlanta last week, Arris and its partners demonstrated how fast broadband links can enable a growing array of smart-city applications. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive 5G & the Factory of the Future By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 11/13/2018 What's latency got to do with it? Quite a bit actually... Post a Comment \| Read (16 comments) Latest Comment: DanJones Nokia, was using a couple of Bosch robot arms for demos last week. They didn't... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards DanJones, 11/16/2018 4:19:52 PM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? Nokia, was using a couple of Bosch robot arms for demos last week. They didn't want photos taken,which was wierd. Duh!, 11/16/2018 2:55:43 PM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? I'm skeptical of this solution, not the use case. The latter is clearly being driven by manufacturers and industrial machine makers, not telecoms. Robert Bosch is apparently leading the charge. Quick rebuttals to your... brooks7, 11/15/2018 1:15:12 PM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? Gabriel, Let me give you a better notion of my skepticism. 1 - Latency: I worked for a brief time in Real-Time Controls a long time ago. At that time, we were working with 1 msec full loop control cycles not... Gabriel Brown, 11/15/2018 11:06:52 AM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? Ha! Oh well... brooks7, 11/15/2018 11:01:37 AM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? Actually that site makes me believe that it is just a marketing guy (okay a bunch of marketing guys). 5G marketing guys. seven Gabriel Brown, 11/15/2018 4:02:14 AM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? It's good to question and a degree of scepticism is warranted, but this is more than something "made-up by a marketing guy". The 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) is a good start https:/... brooks7, 11/15/2018 1:56:11 AM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? The assembly lines that are massive conveyer systems bolted down and the robots that are the size of cars? I get the compute part, but if we are centralizing it....uh why are we moving it? I guess I am saying this sounds... Duh!, 11/14/2018 5:15:04 PM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? Probably not heavy machinery. More like robots and assembly lines. DanJones, 11/14/2018 3:24:40 PM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? Well, reconfigurably can also include moving compute power (edge, cloud etc,) to handle specific tasks. brooks7, 11/14/2018 2:04:22 PM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? Rapid Reconfigurabilty using machines that way several tons....okay sure. So, its a brand new factory and all the machines have 5G built in. Because if they have dongles it is a big latency problem right? Seems like... DanJones, 11/14/2018 11:57:55 AM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? Yeah, sometime in 2020 is just the earliest it probably could happen... Duh!, 11/14/2018 11:23:14 AM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? I understand that the use case is a "Factory of the Future" (thus the title of the post), so existing factories are not a consideration. One of the main objectives is rapid reconfigurability. They want to be able to move... brooks7, 11/14/2018 10:29:40 AM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? Well, this also makes an assumption that people are out buying new gear with 5G built in. Unlike Connected Cars (which I think is completely problematic for other reasons - Hey network is down...guess we can't drive... Duh!, 11/13/2018 9:31:09 PM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? I don't follow 802.11 very closely, but understand that 802.11ay has very tight latency objectives. Their requirements document specifies <10ms. DanJones, 11/13/2018 8:16:29 PM 5G & the Factory of the Future Re: Re: Wishful thinking? Well, you getting ultra low latency outta WiFi? More Message Boards		Security Now BlackBerry Acquiring Security & AI Firm Cylance for $1.4B Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 11/16/2018 BlackBerry is continuing to move away from its smartphone legacy with the ... 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