This week’s announcement from Spark that its trial 5G network had gone live was good news for Spark, good news for supplier Huawei and particularly good news for the Emirates Americas Cup team, which gets exclusive access to the network. According to Spark: “The reduced latency and higher bandwidth of 5G means Emirates Team New […]
Huawei homes in on 6G
Back in December 2018 I wrote a blog: “5G is passé. 6G is coming!” observing that, although there had been little mainstream mention of the next generation of cellular technology, 6G, work was already underway in a number of labs.” I detailed a number of those initiatives, and observed: “not surprisingly none of the big […]
WIOTC ranks top 500 IoT companies
World Internet Of Things Convention (WIOTC), a China lead international organisation for IoT, has published a ranking of the top 500 companies in IoT, listing the top 10 as being Huawei, Qualcomm, Bosch, Google, Cisco, China Unicom, Vodafone, IBM, NXP and China Telecom. It claims the World Internet of Things Ranking List (WIOTRL) to be […]
Huawei gets closer to SAP to exploit IoT opportunities
Huawei has announced plans to expand its existing collaboration with SAP on the SAP HANA platform saying it will enable both companies to explore new opportunities in Asia Pacific and Japan in big data and analytics, smart city, safe city, IoT and cloud. Huawei says it has a long-standing partnership with SAP around the SAP […]
Huawei to fund NB-IoT research at James Cook University
Huawei has formed a partnership with James Cook University to develop technology based on the recently standardised Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT). Huawei says it has provided James Cook University with the latest IoT technology as well as direct funding for specialised research, which it will use to host a dedicated l NB-IoT lab to research and […]
Edge Computing Consortium gathers momentum
The – predominantly Chinese – Edge Computing Consortium announced at the end of November is gaining momentum with the release of an English language version of its first white paper and the launch of its web site. The consortium was launched during a 2016 Edge Computing Industrial Summit in China. Its formation of the ECC […]
Edge computing gets foggier
A few years ago Cisco coined the term ‘fog computing’ for edge computing in IoT networks. The industry recognised the need for harmonising this component of the IoT ecosystem, the name caught on and the OpenFog Consortium was formed in November 2015 with ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Princeton University as founding members. One […]
Huawei unveils IoT network planning methodology for telcos
Huawei has unveiled what it says is the first IoT network planning methodology, designed to “help operators implement rapid network construction an maximise IoT value.” The methodology was announced by Ryan Ding, executive director and president of products and solutions at Huawei, in an address to Huawei’s Mobile Broadband Forum in Tokyo on 24 November. […]
Huawei gets gold for NB-IoT
Huawei’s NB-IoT technology has won the gold medal for new technologies and products at the 2016 World Internet of Things Exposition (WIOT) in Wuxi, China. Huawei says this makes it the first company to win a significant award in the narrowband cellular IoT field. “Huawei has conducted lab and field tests with a number of […]
Huawei’s Neul claims key role in NB-IoT
UK wireless technology company, Neul — acquired by Huawei in September 2014 – says the soon-to-be-ratified NB-IoT standard is largely based on its technology, which is being trialled in Australia by Melbourne’s South East Water utility for the monitoring of its sewage pumping systems – a service currently provided with NetComm gear and Telstra’s 3G-based […]
