Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson and China Mobile Zhejiang deploy 5G to oversee public-safety-focused natural disaster management in China.
The deployment follows the successful trial of a 5G mission-critical partnership solution—called the 5G Full-Closed-Loop system for Integrated Natural Disaster Management—in ten cities across the Lishui region in China.
The 5G solution will cover early-warning analysis, natural disaster monitoring, command and dispatch, and post-disaster assessment.
The solution was developed and launched by the Lishui Branch of China Mobile Zhejiang Company and Ericsson along with several industry ecosystem partners under the leadership of Lishui Municipal Emergency Management Bureau.
It was tested in Lishui as the region is vulnerable to large-scale disasters and flash floods during the wet season.
The partners expect nationwide deployment to get underway in the coming weeks.
Ericsson and China Mobile merged respective emergency communication practices, digital twin use cases, and network slicing technologies while jointly building 5G network connectivity.
The solution will address issues in disaster prediction, disaster occurrence, shared data silos, coordinated emergency command, and timely evacuation.
It also incorporates the following:
Integrated 5G sky-land monitoring network: Solves challenges in data integration and sharing, deployment, coverage, and construction and operational costs by ensuring rapid network deployment.
Intelligent 5G multi-hazard early-warning model based: Accelerates data processing and improves accuracy for rapid data transmission, consolidated processing, and precise multi-hazard identification.
Decision-making assistant based on digital map models: A 3D model of disaster sites built by utilising 5G drones. Dynamic renditions of disasters duplicate and analyse impact range and create emergency evacuation routes
Portable 5G sites and communication vehicles for on-site communication: Vehicles provide 5G network coverage across disaster relief sites – with portable 5G antenna-integrated radios weighing less than 10 KG as well as satellite and microwave equipment
Simulated model assessment based on remote-sensing imagery: Evaluates disaster scale, physical damage and direct economic loss through the combined results from on-site surveillance results and the simulated assessment model.
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 29 August 2022.
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Microwave transmission equipment used in mobile backhaul applications grew 5% year-over-year in 2Q 2022 with majority of the market share in mobile backhaul was led by two vendors—Ericsson and Huawei—with a combined market share of nearly 60%, according to firm Dell’Oro Group.
“Demand for mobile backhaul continued to be a strong driver for microwave transmission equipment growth,” commented Dell’Oro Group vice president Jimmy Yu.
“We believe this growth will continue for some time as 5G deployments proliferate beyond geographic locations that have fibre in place,” added Yu.
The 2Q 2022 Microwave Transmission & Mobile Backhaul Quarterly Report highlighted the following:
1. Overall microwave transmission equipment revenue grew 1% year-over-year in the quarter, driven by higher demand for mobile backhaul. The verticals market declined, offsetting some of the gains in mobile. 2. As a result of component shortages, Russia-Ukraine war, and weaker euro currency, the European market for microwave equipment sharply declined. On a constant currency basis, microwave transmission revenue declined approximately 12% from the same quarter a year ago. 3. The vendors with the highest market shares for mobile backhaul in the trailing 12-month period were Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, Ceragon, and ZTE. Among these vendors, ZTE gained the most market share, nearly doubling its revenue share from the year-ago period.
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 1 September 2022.
Approximately 70 million new 5G subscriptions were added globally during the second quarter of 2022, according to the latest update to the Ericsson Mobility Report, bringing the total of 5G subscriptions to 690 million.
Ericsson updated its Ericsson Mobility Report with a short three-page Q2 2022 analysis and reported the following statistics:
1. There were about 3 billion mobile subscriptions at the close of Q2 2022 2. There were about 6.1 billion unique mobile subscribers at the close of Q2 2022 3. Mobile broadband accounts for about 86% of all mobile subscriptions 4. About 218 communications service providers had launched commercial 5G services 5. A total of 24 communications service providers had launched 5G standalone (SA) networks 6. Mobile network data traffic grew 39% between Q2 2021 and Q2 2022 7. Total monthly global mobile network data traffic reached 100 EB (exabytes).
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 31 August 2022.
IoT solutions provider Quectel’s 5G NR module has been certified to operate on T-Mobile’s 5G and LTE-A networks in the United States, allowing customers to deploy home gateways, industrial routers, automation devices, unmanned delivery vehicles, robots, drones, consumer laptops and other next generation IoT applications.
“This confirms our commitment to drive innovation and provide our global customers with highly reliable, best-in-class IoT solutions, which will help accelerate the next wave of 5G IoT applications,” said Quectel president and chief security officer Norbert Muhrer.
Built on Qualcomm’s SDX62 platform, the RM520N-GL supports both 5G NSA and SA modes, as well as R16 enhanced features such as ultra-high bandwidth, millisecond-level latency, 5G network slicing and ultra-reliability.
The module is designed to support 28 major sub-6GHz bands (n1/ 2/ 3/ 5/ 7/ 8/ 12/ 13/ 14/ 18/ 20/ 25/ 26/ 28/ 29/ 30/ 38/ 40/ 41/ 48/ 66/ 70/ 71/ 75/ 76/ 77/ 78/ 79) and is compatible with LTE-A/3G networks and features integrated GNSS for location services.
Designed in a M.2 form factor, the dimensions of the RM520N-GL are 30mm x 52mm x 2.3mm, making it pin-to-pin compatible with Quectel’s 5G module RM50xQ series, LTE-A Cat 6 module EM06/ EM060K series, Cat 12 modules EM12/ EM12xR/ EM120K series and Cat 16 module EM160R-GL.
The RM520N-GL supports downlink and uplink NR 2 x carrier aggregation (CA) and all three combinations of sub-6GHz time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) CA, including CA of FDD+TDD, FDD+FDD and TDD+TDD.
This ensures 5G coverage, capacity, and throughput by combining 5G spectrum assets.
These features enable the RM520N-GL to have maximum downlink rates of up to 3.4Gbps and maximum uplink rates of up to 900Mbps.
These data rates meet the needs of industry applications requiring enhanced mobile broadband and reliable communication capabilities, such as fixed wireless access (FWA), mobile broadband equipment, and industrial automation.
The RM520N-GL supports multiple optional functions including eSIM and VoLTE and integrates USB 3.1/ PCIe 3.0 super speed interfaces.
In addition to the T-Mobile approval, Quectel’s RM520N-GL has also achieved worldwide certification from GCF, PTCRB, CE, CCC, RCM, FCC and IC.
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 30 August 2022.
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IT integration and network technologies company NEC and multinational corporation Fortinet have partnered to build secure 5G networks for communication service providers.
Fortinet will provide its solutions including FortiGate—a hyperscale firewall—while NEC will offer services to deliver carrier-grade, sustainable networking required in 5G.
Fortinet and NEC will enable communication service providers (CSPs) to gain visibility into users, applications, and threats to protect themselves from known and unknown threats in the 5G era.
The companies will focus on key network security use cases and services, such as radio access network (RAN), mobile roaming, Gi-LAN/N6 and telco/edge cloud security.
Fortinet's automation capabilities and AI-driven threat intelligence will provide protection throughout all domains and layers of CSPs' complex 5G networks.
As the network integrator, NEC will leverage Fortinet’s solutions to deliver its services.
Its NEC Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and NEC Open Networks, an ecosystem consisting of an end-to-end suite of open products and solutions, enable the company to support CSPs with future-proofed solutions in a safe and secure way.
"5G success and growth depends on service providers' ability to deliver innovative enterprise-facing use cases while meeting their security requirements," said Fortinet executive vice president of products and chief marketing officer John Maddison.
"The partnership enables our services to meet the customer's urgent and diverse needs for network security in the 5G era," commented NEC general manager service provider solutions department Hideyuki Ogata.
“NEC CoEs already have rich experience in network security, including the recent success with Fortinet for CETIN and others. This partnership promises to further enrich our service portfolio facing customers as a global network integrator,” Ogata said.
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 26 August 2022.
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