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By Asimakis Kokkos The telecom industry has rallied behind 5G and its promise of 10x faster speeds (10Gbps peak data rates, 100Mbps whenever needed), 10x quicker response times (less than 1ms latency) and ultra-reliability. This July, 3GPP completed its Release 16...

By György Wolfner, End-to-End Architecture Working Group Chair When you’re at your local coffee shop or at the airport waiting for your flight, it’s common to want to connect to an on-premises hotspot configured as a neutral host network (NHN). But how can you be sure...

By Mazen Chmaytelli, MulteFire Alliance President As the world grapples with the impacts of COVID-19 upon our everyday lives and social distancing becomes the norm, the case for automation in the workplace becomes more business-critical than ever.  Automation in...

By Christian Wagner, m3Connect According to Gartner, there will be 25 billion connected devices by 2021. The interest in better connectivity within the wireless industry focuses on the need to support this rising number of connected devices which continue to demand an...

By Outi Niemi, MulteFire Alliance Secretary I recently returned from our MulteFire Open Day in Tokyo which included an exciting mix of presentations from Alliance leadership, Q&A with attendees and live MulteFire technology demonstrations. While this was our...

MulteFire Alliance IoT Optimized Specification Now Publicly Available By Mazen Chmaytelli, MulteFire Alliance President I am pleased to announce that the MulteFire Release 1.1 specification is now available to download for anyone with an interest in LTE-based...

MulteFire on a Mission: Connecting Factories of the Future Today By Outi Niemi The MulteFire Alliance is on a mission to enable Enterprise and Industrial IoT to leverage MulteFire technology as a private cellular network for their business-critical applications that...

MulteFire Open Day – MWC Panel Recap By Outi Niemi In keeping with tradition, I’m writing a blog on the latest MulteFire Open Day – which took place during MWC19 – to provide you with insight into some of the discussions taking place in the industry around MulteFire....

MulteFire Release 1.1, optimized for IoT, now complete; Commercial launch in Japan anticipated for 2H 2019 By Outi Niemi Yes, the title of this blog is inspired by the fun movie that I watched on my flight from Helsinki to San Francisco for the last MulteFire Alliance...

By Nanda Menon, Director – Corporate Development, Athonet srl It has become a truism to say that today internet connectivity is as essential to modern life as air and water. Yet for more than 4 billion people, access to the internet is an idea as fanciful as a trip to...