Verizon Business, the division for the supply of connectivity to companies (also present in Italy) of the American giant Verizon, accelerates on the fifth generation “private” digital networks. Together with the residential connection via 5G“private networks” are the new market opportunity that the American company wants to exploit to the maximum. Connected stadiums, networks for factories, for cruise ships and container ships, for offices and campuses but also for the traffic management in smart citiesdigital citizenship, XR experiences o safety on construction sites.
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The applications are many and they are all related to the possibility of building a segment of the 5G network disconnected from the operator’s “public” 5G and which instead operates with different modes (and sometimes frequencies), allowing only the devices with the authenticated sim to connect or powering the WiFi access points more consistently. We can think of it as an alternative that is added to WiFienhancing traditional access points and bringing more flexibility and power, because it is in any case a telephony network, that is, built specifically to cover large spaces in a capillary way and manage a large number of people entering and exiting.
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“With these networks – he said during a meeting that was held in London Tami Erwin, number one in Verizon’s business division – together with our partners we can unlock new solutions that bring a real revolution to the marketVerizon’s private 5G networks for the European and Asia-Pacific markets are based on Nokia networking equipment.
The long-promised change is, according to Verizon, underway now: “The best quote,” he says Sampath Sowmyanarayan, Chief revenue officer di Verizon Business – it’s this one: “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when everything happens“. Well, these are literally the weeks, the months where everything is happening. ”
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In the USA 35% of mobile phones are 5G and we will reach 50% at the end of the year. Europe and Italy follow “with slightly lower figures”. Verizon has already invested more than 53 billion dollars in the spectrum in the countries where it is present (in Italy it is present only in the business segment and does not have a mobile operator license), in the US the home internet access market via 5G is exploding while the company is now opening the new line linked to private networks. In the US, about thirty stadiums have been covered by Verizon’s private 5G network. Included the one where the last Super Bowl was held. But also those for competitions and finals in basketball, baseball and other sports. In Europe, technology is landing now: together with Extreme Networks, Verizon has announced the first arena of the Old Continent: Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium. Others will follow shortly: from the signing of the agreement to the switching on of the wired stadium, Verizon says, “a maximum of nine months”.
“It is from the time of the ancient Romans and the Colosseum – dice Sowmyanarayan – che the stadium experience does not change, lions and gladiators aside: you enter an hour before the event, you attend the meeting perhaps eating something and then you go out. However, in recent years, 80% of people look at the mobile phone and not at the show, to share images, communicate with others, look for details that he may not be able to see from the stands. Now we can make the stadium a completely different place: cabling it and allowing both a completely different experience in the stands and offering connectivity to the teams and referees, as well as enhancing safety management. ” The goal is personalized experiences for the audience and provide useful tools for those who manage the safety of the environment. In addition, the private network can also be used during concerts and other events.
5G developed for private networks is also ideal for cruise ships, where passengers increasingly want the comforts they are used to, including an excellent internet connection. Verizon Business is announcing deals with a number of shipownerswhile also works on the port front (starting with Associated British Ports) e of container shipsreal giants of the sea with thousands of containers that must be located, managed and, in many cases, monitored in real time (status of the load, operation of the systems such as cooling, tracking).
In the factory and in the workplace private 5G allows you to take advantage of continuous connectivity and move much of the processing to the cloud thanks to bandwidth, speed and low latency. But private 5G networks for Verizon are also the key to open up new types of augmented and virtual reality experiences (there is an agreement with Digital Catapult for the development of solutions), for the execution of autonomous driving of electric cars and for all solutions both of an industrial type (for example, monitoring the global supply chain o the predictive analysis of the systems, developed in collaboration with Atos) and of digital citizenship (solutions for smart cities) or remote health care. The latter, for example, applied to basic medicine it would allow to bring many meetings between doctor and patients in videocall, lightening the workload and making activities more fluid. Verizon is working on this front with Visionable.
«Finally, an important thing – says Sowmyanarayan – is to always keep in the center cybersecurity and digital resilience, that is, resistant, secure networks capable of providing services even in critical conditions ». Essential to make sure that the new services can work in any situation. For the first time the company takes a competence and development center out of the US: in Londonwith the aim of accelerating its European presence, including Italy.