Embedded solutions specialist MIKROE has launched a new development board designed to help device makers add LTE Cat 1 bis connectivity to IoT applications across Europe as operators continue to retire legacy 2G and 3G networks. The company’s LTE Cat.1…
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Defence Minister congratulates UK 5G innovator for inclusion in elite NATO programme
The Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, Luke Pollard MP, has congratulated JET Connectivity for being one of just five companies globally and the only UK based firm to have been awarded a place on the elite NATO DIANA Mission…
Qorvo eliminates cascaded switches in 5G radios
Qorvo announced a new family of RF switches designed to simplify multi-band radio architectures. Spanning 50MHz to 10GHz, the family reduces component count, improves signal integrity, and enables more efficient RF system design across 5G infrastructure, industrial, drone, and test…
EarthDaily CEO: LEO satellite boom is transforming IoT from local sensing to global intelligence
Don Osborne, Chief Executive Officer of EarthDaily, was on his way to a conference in Colorado when the company’s latest six satellites reached low Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission earlier this month. “I wasn’t terribly stressed…
LINX Kenya reports twenty-fold traffic increase at Inaugural Connect Kenya Event
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has marked a major milestone in Kenya, seeing traffic increase twenty-fold across LINX Nairobi and LINX Mombasa, and a combined maximum peak of over 330Gbps. It follows the first LINX Connect Kenya member network event…
AI-powered broadband networks could transform telecom and IoT infrastructure, says Broadband Forum
A telecom industry group has outlined a vision for how artificial intelligence could reshape broadband infrastructure, with networks that can predict faults, optimise capacity automatically, and repair themselves with minimal human intervention. Broadband Forum on Tuesday published a new report,…
Viasat demonstrates D2D satellite connectivity for industrial IoT in Uzbekistan
Satellite communications company Viasat has completed what it says is the first in-country direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity demonstration in Uzbekistan, highlighting the growing role non-terrestrial networks could play in extending industrial IoT coverage across remote regions. The demonstration, carried out…
Reshaping Cloud strategy: the rise of sovereign Edge computing for AI and IoT
By Mark Lewis, Chief Marketing Officer at Pulsant Businesses migrating from a single, public Cloud provider has been the direction of travel of UK digital infrastructure for years. Most recently, research from Vanson Bourne demonstrated that 87% of enterprise CIOs…
Twisted carbon nanotubes unlock giant light conversion effect for faster photonic chips in IoT networks
Researchers in the US have demonstrated a centimetre-scale carbon nanotube film with what they describe as a record-breaking ability to convert light frequencies, a breakthrough that could strengthen the optical foundations underpinning next-generation communications and computing systems used in the…
Astrolight & Aristotle University to boost Europe’s space connectivity
Astrolight, a space and defence company developing laser communication solutions across space, ground, and maritime domains, completed the commissioning of the Holomondas Optical Ground Station (OGS) in Greece this March. The station will support Greek In-Orbit Demonstration and Validation (IOD/IOV)…
