The University of Liverpool’s project, has been awarded £9 million (€10.48 million) funding from department of science, innovation and technology. It aims to tackle challenge of poor digital connectivity in places where there is a high user demand such as busy railway stations, football matches or large concert venues. The Liverpool City Region High Demand Density (Liverpool City Region HDD) project aims to demonstrate benefits of open RAN (radio access network) technology to support large number of users accessing mobile and internet services in settings such as sports and music venues. (more…)
September 16, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Tarana Wireless, Inc., announced that Digital Alpha Advisors, has joined Tarana’s investor group. The $50 million (€46.92 million) up round led by Digital Alpha is focused on both accelerating Tarana’s growth in sales and deployment of G1 (generation 1), its next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) platform, as well as expanding R&D investment. This will thereby help to build on Tarana’s foundational advances in wireless broadband technology. Tarana’s valuation increase reflects the Tarana’s performance and market traction. (more…)
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Molex has released a report that highlights opportunities and obstacles facing product design engineers as the future of connectivity continues to unfold. The report, “Predicting the Connectivity of Tomorrow: Innovations Driving the Connected World,” offers insights into changing future connectivity, which is poised to unlock product creations. (more…)
September 15, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has announced public release of Get Ready for Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) 7: Applying new capabilities to the key use cases, a report that explores how this technology will change the way people worldwide live, work and play. Based on the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) 802.11be (extreme high throughput) standard, Wi-Fi 7 has a variety of advanced capabilities. These will improve existing use cases or enable recent ones that are not possible with existing wired and wireless technologies. (more…)
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Fujitsu General Australia and Fujitsu General New Zealand have partnered with Sensibo. This partnership will provide smart home air conditioning (AC) solutions. Sensibo is a climate technology internet of things (IoT) company that develops smart AC and heat pump solutions, using data and artificial intelligence (AI), for a more sustainable world. (more…)
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Kobai, has announced collaboration with Databricks. With this collaboration, joint customers can leverage insights of knowledge graphs with scalability and power of Databricks lakehouse platform. Kobai’s saturn platform is embedded directly in data layer, allowing organisations to query data without moving it from lakehouse, with W3C (world wide web consortium) and lakehouse open standards providing complete interactivity. (more…)
September 13, 2023
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nexfibre, in partnership with Virgin Media O2, has reached an agreement with fibre operator, Upp, to acquire provider. The acquisition will boost fibre footprint of nexfibre by 175,000 premises in East of England and ensure investment and network build in region continues for years to come. The all-cash deal sees Virgin Media O2 initially purchase provider and carry out integration work, but nexfibre will thereby fund acquisition through a back-to-back agreement to buy Upp’s network assets. (more…)
September 12, 2023
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Iridium Communications Inc., announced that Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG), will deploy Iridium IoT (internet of things) services on its global fleet of heavy equipment, starting with excavators and expanding to loaders and crane trucks as needed. XCMG will utilise Iridium’s global network to maintain critical connectivity with their heavy equipment in main locations including Australia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Central Asia. (more…)
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ReposiTrak has welcomed one of California’s large regional, self distributed grocery chains to ReposiTrak traceability network. Implementation is underway for chain’s 200 retail locations and 200 suppliers. They prepare supply chains for compliance with FDA’s FSMA food traceability 204 regulation using easy-to-adopt, low-cost solution that’s backed by industry. (more…)
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Airties and Domos, has announced an alliance to provide enhanced latency management capabilities to broadband service providers around world. Airties and Domos will jointly own latency monitoring software module, based on Domos’ existing module, and will be embedded into Airties smart Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) software. Additionally, Domos will gain access to Airties’ customer base to expand distribution of its network X-ray agent through integration with Airties smart Wi-Fi solutions. Financial terms of deal were not disclosed. (more…)
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