Greece’s first private cellular campus network for smart manufacturing has been deployed at Calpak’s fully automated, solar water heater production facility in the municipality of Loutraki. The new private cellular campus network, which was designed and deployed by COSMOTE, in partnership with Ericsson, is accelerating Industry 4.0 uses in Greece like smart manufacturing. The innovative connectivity solution provides excellent security and flexibility, resolving key challenges of smart manufacturing.…

Ericsson and T-Systems, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom Group, are offering fully integrated campus network solutions to partners worldwide. Based on Ericsson's Campus Network infrastructure and T-Systems' Edge Computing capabilities, the partnership delivers an integrated end-to-end solution to directly meet the site connectivity needs of enterprise customers through high-quality, seamless service. According to management consultancy Arthur D Little forecasts, the market for private campus networks, services, and solutions…

Autonomous automated guided vehicles (AGV) fleet management, smart AGV operations based on human gesture recognition and virtual reality (VR) applications are the main next-generation capabilities to be tested at the facility. Edge computing, advanced robotics and artificial intelligence are among the technologies that Ericsson connectivity will enable for the pilot. The aim is to optimize logistics processes and distribution chains within the factory warehouses to improve efficiency, including…

As part of the contract supporting EVRAZ’s digital transformation program at the Sheregeshskaya mine in south-central Russia, Ericsson and Mobile TeleSystems PJSC (MTS) will deploy a commercial LTE/5G-ready private network built on the Ericsson Dedicated Networks solution. The Sheregeshskaya mine is a pilot area for the digital transformation begun by EVRAZ in 2020, where modern digital technologies are being introduced to increase industrial safety, boost equipment efficiency, and…

Umniah Jordan has announced its partnership with Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) with a new contract covering the transformation of its radio access network (RAN) infrastructure in Jordan. This extended partnership will optimize the subscriber experience for both consumers and enterprises. The agreement covers hardware, software and range of services such as network management, system integration and support. It also covers the transformation of existing 4G infrastructure in order to…

Ericsson and FET provide MediaTek with a private network solution that uses FET's commercial 3.5GHz and 28GHz spectrum. MediaTek's three manufacturing partner sites and its headquarter campus in HsinChu Science Park will all benefit. Dedicated Networks is Ericsson's private network solution. The private network enables MediaTek to fully utilize FET's band mix in low-, mid- and high-bands, allowing MediaTek to explore and test products for different scenarios in…

As the first report in its Future of Enterprises series, Ericsson IndustryLab asked white-collar workers and ICT decision makers online about the future of their enterprises. The report is based on 5,000 responses from 11 markets, representing about 175 million employees globally. The report concludes that dematerialization will be key to greater profitability and sustainability in the future. In practice, this can mean moving data and applications to…

The heightened value, scale and complex security challenges of emerging 5G enterprise use cases across industries such as manufacturing, ICT, public services, logistics and transport continue to underline the criticality of industry-wide security assurance within the product development lifecycle of mobile technologies. The Network Equipment Security Assurance Scheme (NESAS), jointly defined by global standards organizations 3GPP and GSMA, was introduced in recent years to provide a common security assurance…

Ericsson India and its non-governmental organization (NGO) development partner in India, the Smile Foundation, have teamed up to enable COVID-19 swab samples in underserved communities to be collected and transported to government laboratories for testing. Ericsson funds the Smile Foundation’s Smile on Wheels service - mobile medical vans staffed by health professionals and trained volunteers - which is helping to conduct COVID-19 swab tests in underserved areas of…