Orange brings 5G to Le Havre port
French operator Orange is making 5G technology available to companies operating in the port area of Le Havre. The telco claims Le Havre becomes the first major French seaport to benefit from 5G operating in 3.5 GHz spectrum.
The aim is to improve competitiveness of the port area, as companies with operations there can now benefit from real time data and use connected robotics, augmented reality maintenance and intervene remotely.
As part of this project, Orange Business Services has been developing a Smart Data Services platform with Haropa and the Le Havre Seine Métropole urban community.
CommScope launches 5G antenna packages
CommScope is launching 5G antenna packages to accelerate deployments in new spectrum, including the USA’s recently auctioned C-Band airwaves.
The company unveiled C-Band antennas designed to support three primary upgrade paths. One is a standalone passive or active C-band antenna, second is a multiband passive antenna supporting low-band, mid-band and C-Band within a single housing.
The third package is a modular antenna configuration including mid-band, full-length low-band arrays and a field-replaceable module that supports C-Band via a 64T64R active antenna unit (AAU) or an 8T8R passive antenna.
CommScope noted that the last two upgrade paths allow operators to replace an existing multi-band antenna with one that adds C-Band functionality without any change in the size of the antenna. This avoids structural changes to the site or increases in leasing fees.
Intel to build two fab factories in Arizona
Intel plans to invest about $20bn to build two new fab facilities in Arizona, bolstering US domestic semiconductor supply as well as jobs at a time of increasing tension around Taiwan where TSMC, the world’s biggest foundry, is located.
Four factors, cloud, connectivity, artificial intelligence and the ‘intelligent edge’ are driving chip demand, according to Pat Gelsinger, Intel’s CEO. “The world will move from system-on-a-chip to system-on-package, and Intel’s unquestioned leadership in packaging technologies becomes even more valuable,” he said.
Gelsinger insisted that Intel’s internal integrated manufacturing model had been foundational to its success, and that the company would continue to build the majority of its products in Intel fabs, alongside plans also to expand use of third party foundry capacity across its portfolio.
Nokia partners with Key Bridge for CBRS integrated private network
Nokia has collaborated with newly authorized spectrum access system (SAS) operator Key Bridge for an integrated private network package based on CBRS. This follows Key Bridge receiving authorization from the FCC as a SAS operator and having an environmental sensing capability (ESC) network of coastal sensors to detect intermittent incumbent use by ship-mounted naval radar systems.
This, combined with algorithms from Nokia Bell Labs, will help ensure reliability of the private network, with ability to failover to a second SAS in case of loss of connectivity.
The offering is aimed at priority access licence (PAL) holders who spent a combined $4.58bn on PALs when they were auctioned last year, according to Tristan Barraud DeLagerie, who leads CBRS solution marketing at Nokia. These organizations can access the spectrum via general authorized access, alongside service providers’ network-as-a-service offerings to enterprises, which can sub-lease PALs.