Press Releases

Hope Mills joins Metronet’s multi-gigabit network

Metronet has announced that ultra-high-speed multi-gigabit fibre optic internet is now available to residents and businesses throughout Hope Mills. As Metronet’s service becomes available throughout the Hope Mills area, residents will have access to multi-gigabit speeds up to 2 gigabits; and businesses may access speeds up to 10 gigabits. (more…)

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February 8, 2023

Posted by: Shriya Raban

Viro debuts handcrafted smart home lighting collection, disrupting home lighting industry

Viro, a lighting brand that combines handcrafted design with smart technology, has announced that it has officially launched its lighting collection at virolighting.com. The launch comes on the heels of receiving the L A M P 2022 Manufactured Pendant Award for its Fresnel Smart Pendant. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

HPE, Airspan Networks support next generation of wireless networks

Partnering with HPE OEM Solutions, Airspan delivers 5G “network in a box,” a plug-and-play solution built on Open RAN technology. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

Cradlepoint expands 5G portfolio with “router-on-the-roof” for vehicles

Boise, Idaho. 01 February 2023 – Cradlepoint, a global provider in cloud delivered LTE and 5G wireless network solutions, has announced R2100 Series 5G Ruggedised Router, adding to Cradlepoint’s growing 5G Wireless WAN portfolio. Built for vehicle and IoT networks, a sleek exterior-mounted solution provides mass transit, public safety, and other organisations that require a high bandwidth IoT or mobile router with the latest cellular performance in a flexible and simplified form factor. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

How businesses can create internal teams of data experts

Data offers huge opportunities for businesses, but most leaders face growing challenges in unlocking the business potential of the data at their fingertips. In part, this is due to the sheer amount of data available to businesses, says Itamar Ben Hemo, the CEO and co-founder of Rivery. In the decade between 2010 and 2020, the creation, capturing and copying of data went up by 5,000% worldwide and reached 59trn gigabytes, according to IDC Research in 2021. But business leaders also face a shortage of talent to make sense of this data, with few around the world. (more…)

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February 7, 2023

Posted by: Shriya Raban

Cisco launches cloud services in IoT ops dashboard to boost industrial asset visibility, give IIoT path to cloud automation

Cisco has announced new innovations in cloud-managed networking, delivering on its promise to help customers simplify their IT operations. With new cloud management tools for industrial IoT applications, simplified dashboards to converge IT and OT operations, and flexible network intelligence to see and secure all industrial assets, Cisco delivers a unified experience that provides true business agility. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

Freshwave, Midland Metropolitan University Hospital partner to build mobile network

Freshwave are delighted to be working with Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust to bring indoor mobile coverage for all four mobile network operators to Midland Metropolitan University Hospital. With the NHS Long Term Plan‘s ambitions to upgrade technology and digitally enabled care across the health service, having world class mobile coverage for use by patients and medical staff is crucial. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

ETSI NFV releases architecture enhancements to support cloud-native network functions

The ETSI Industry Specification Group for Network Functions Virtualisation (ISG NFV) has just published its next drop of specifications around new enhancements of the NFV architecture that will support cloud-native network functions. (more…)

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February 6, 2023

Posted by: Shriya Raban

How smart sensors prevent thieves from going off the rails

Cable theft cost taxpayers millions of pounds each year and that’s just for infrastructure repairs. The total cost to the economy is even higher. Thieves are attracted to metal for its buoyant pricing, targeting overhead power lines, signalling cables, and even metal fences. But along with greater policing and stricter scrap metal controls, smart technology solutions can make railways security more robust, keeping commuters on-the-go and supply chains moving, and reducing repair costs, says Matthew Margetts is a director at Smarter Technologies. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

ICANN publishes UA roadmap for domain name registry, registrar systems

25 January 2023 – Domain Name System (DNS) has expanded dramatically. There are more than 1,200 active new generic top level domains (gTLDs) representing many different scripts and character strings of varying length. Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) enable people around the world to use domain names in local languages and scripts, with more than 60 IDN country code top level domains (ccTLDs) representing global communities online in native scripts. (more…)

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Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar