The Critical New Solution in powering Industry 4.0 with Private LTE

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A key enabling technology will be Private LTE, 3G/4G and eventually 5G solutions that can be housed within carrier-edge nano-datacenters as well as enterprise data centers, where often the main landmarks in the rural villages, and cities are the main community venues, the town hall, and the telephone company’s central office switching center all on Main Street.

[Private IoT networks was featured at Industrial IoT Summit ]

These 5G carrier-edge nano-datacenters, housed in cell tower locations, and central offices of the past will need newer thinking in solutions and services being offered, as these solutions extend to within enterprises. Legacy approaches of the past have included essentially a 2-pronged approach of hardware appliances, from traditional vendors with legacy operational support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS). Now, newer Agile, and DevOPs-oriented “cloud-based” solutions are occurring from legacy vendors re-inventing themselves like Nokia, Ericsson, and Cisco, as well as newer players like Mavenir, Metaswitch and NetNumber with their virtualized offerings. These newer offerings like NetNumber’s All-G platform, offer a third approach, with elasticity of services, pay-as-you-grow business models, and newer innovative services for Industrial applications, such as:

Autonomous Robotics
AI-based controls
Video-everywhere from surveillance to process and quality controls
Newer spectrum bands are occurring for Private LTE Networks such as Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) enabling newer levels of connectivity, in the 3.5 Ghz band, with newer access control systems required for the shared resources, to the newer high frequency bands ideal for fixed wireless local loop access.

Hybrid clouds will create a technology convergence platform that combines IoT data and cognitive computing as necessary building blocks, bridging private on-prem enterprise clouds, to public megaplex clouds, soon with hybrid clouds in newer carriers. These platforms will be open, scalable, and will support newer concepts of Cloud-Brokering whereby workloads are spun up and down as-needed, and be programmable allowing for newer agile services.

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