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News & Views Most Popular Sigfox Still Shedding Top Execs, Including CTO – Sources By Iain Morris, International Editor, 1/16/2019 The French IoT company has lost another two senior executives in recent months, according to sources, following a wave of departures in the past two years. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Gallis When you have 400 employees and 40 key employees in a high tech start up (i... Microsoft & Walgreens Fend Off Amazon With 7-Year Healthcare Partnership By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 1/15/2019 Microsoft and Walgreens Boots Alliance partner to transform healthcare delivery, as well as migrate most of WBA's IT infrastructure to Azure. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Sprint Gets Cozy With 5G Enterprise Testbeds By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 1/11/2019 Jan Geldmacher, president of Sprint Business, gets his customers ready for 5G applications with testbeds that help businesses put low-latency and high-bandwidth network applications to the test, giving them a leg up on IoT and other business deployments. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement ADVA Moves In on Small Cell Backhaul By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 12/5/2018 New tinier gateway is hardened for deployment on street furniture to provide backhaul for small cells, WiFi hotspots that will blossom with 5G densification, smart cities and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) IoT Boom Won't Pay Off for Mobile Operators By Iain Morris, News Editor, 11/28/2018 Ericsson's latest mobility report is a wake-up call for anyone who thinks cellular IoT connectivity will fuel sales growth for telcos. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: camag Agree that for the likes of Vodafone, it's about connectivity. Was told as... Cisco: Connected Home Will Be Key Driver of IoT by 2022 By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 11/27/2018 Connected home applications, such as home automation, home security and video surveillance, connected white goods, and tracking applications, will represent 48% of the total M2M connections by 2022, Cisco says. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: O2 Launches Massive MIMO Trials in London By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/23/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Vodafone tracks drones; TIM's spin-off puts 20,000 jobs at risk, says trade union official; Orange and MTN join forces on mobile money. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement 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) 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... 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) Ciena: Scale for the Future, Support the Legacy By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/17/2018 New initiatives bring IP onto the platform for end-to-end services up to Layer 3 but also support remaining base of TDM offerings better. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Beeline & Huawei Demo 5G's Potential With Russian Holocall By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/4/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Orange extends telematics deal; Telia goes smart metering; Ireland guns for Facebook. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: GypsumFantastic What about Holo Messaging, Princess Leia style? And I know which industry... Eurobites: Italy's 5G Auction Crosses €5B Mark By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 9/26/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Mobolize gets mobilized in Europe; Tele2 trumpets new IoT platform; Deutsche Telekom shares cybersecurity know-how with Germany army. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Synchronoss CEO Glenn Lurie: Delivering the New Mobile OS By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 9/21/2018 Glenn Lurie, CEO of software platform provider Synchronoss Technologies, has his work cut out for him. He's helping carriers navigate several possible growth opportunities, like IoT, messaging and personal cloud services. Check out this interview where Lurie discusses the company's newest partnership with AT&T and new proof-of-concept with a blockchain-based mobile payments service. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ZenFi Not Done Expanding Yet By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 9/17/2018 Today's close of its merger with Cross River Fiber marks entry into new markets, but that growth is expected to continue, both in buildout and buy scenarios, says the CEO. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Juniper Unveils Major Edge Cloud Push By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 9/17/2018 Vendor launches Contrail Edge Cloud, bringing a multicloud platform to the network's edge for 5G and much more and claiming a performance advantage in a small package. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Packet Lands $25M 'B' Round Funding By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 9/11/2018 Round led by new investor, Third Point Ventures, includes other newbies such as Battery Ventures and Samsung NEXT, and existing funders Softbank and Dell Technologies Capital Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T's Gilbert: AI Critical to 5G Infrastructure By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 9/7/2018 AI and machine learning are essential to scaling the deployment and configuration of the exploding numbers of cellsites needed for 5G, says Mazin Gilbert in the first of a two-part series. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: James_B_Crawshaw Heavy Reading yesterday published its own take on the opportunities for AI... Sprint & Ericsson to Develop Global IoT Core, OS Platform By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 9/5/2018 Ambitious project promises global core and operating system that will support IoT on 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G. Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T Boosts Akraino With Code, Summit By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 8/23/2018 Carrier hosted two-day developer summmit for open source edge software project, after it released key seed code for major use case. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Sigfox Still Shedding Top Execs, Including CTO – Sources By Iain Morris, International Editor, 1/16/2019 The French IoT company has lost another two senior executives in recent months, according to sources, following a wave of departures in the past two years. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Gallis When you have 400 employees and 40 key employees in a high tech start up (i... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards Gallis, 1/18/2019 8:50:49 PM Sigfox Still Shedding Top Execs, Including CTO – Sources Re: Is it worth reporting everytime a manager leaves? When you have 400 employees and 40 key employees in a high tech start up (i should call it a grown up now), you are bound to lose 1/3 (12 = 1 per month) every year because some can't stand the pressure, some have other opportunities... Sigfox Coms, 1/17/2019 12:27:07 PM Sigfox Still Shedding Top Execs, Including CTO – Sources Re: Thank you for being so attentive and faithful to Sigfox We have grown significantly over the last few years, with our network now covering 60 countries, 1 billion people and more than 6 million objects worldwide and it's only normal in such a fast growing market to adapt your... camag, 12/4/2018 11:23:48 PM IoT Boom Won't Pay Off for Mobile Operators Re: Re: It's a matter of perspective Agree that for the likes of Vodafone, it's about connectivity. Was told as much. Would be interesting to know how their costs stack up IoT revenue , given the drop in connection price. MindCommerce, 11/30/2018 12:54:27 PM IoT Boom Won't Pay Off for Mobile Operators Re: Re: It's a matter of perspective Agreed. Clearly, IoT helps to solidify the Carrier role in the value chain, but it is largely as provider of Connectivity and Communications, but not too many value-added things. tomrebbeck, 11/29/2018 9:00:58 AM IoT Boom Won't Pay Off for Mobile Operators Re: It's a matter of perspective I think the impact of IoT on mobile operators depends largely on your perspective. It depends largely on what was expected of IoT. I know of equity analysts who have only recently started to include IoT in their models (i.e.... 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? 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