September 2016 - Real Wireless

Demise of GSM-R highlights the need for radical rethinking of wireless communications in the rail industry

by John Okas | Sep 28, 2016 | Real Wireless blog, Uncategorised

The International Railway Union has recently called for a replacement for the GSM-R network to be developed as a matter of urgency. GSM-R is the modified version of GSM, which was developed for the specific needs of the rail industry’s operational needs. However, as...

Connected Infrastructure for Transportation in the Future – 14th September 2016

by Simon Fletcher | Sep 2, 2016 | Past events, Uncategorised

Event: Connected Infrastructure for Transportation in the Future Date: 14th September 2016 Venue: Milton Keynes What: Simon Fletcher will be speaking at the event

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C-RAN – all still up in the air?

by Simon Fletcher | Aug 27, 2020

C-RAN seems to have been a long time coming. I first started exploring the potential of C-RAN back in 2007. Since then there’s been a great deal of industry talk and thousands of pages of standards describing dozens of C-RAN architectures. And I’m still waiting. Cloud...

Can Satcoms at sea improve operations on land?

by Mike Walsh | Aug 27, 2020

We write a lot about the needs of industry and how LTE, Wi-Fi, DAS and 5G, incorporated into a private network, could improve logistics and security and underpin just-in-time operations for airports, sea-ports, factories, stadiums, malls or local government. But what...

Connected vehicles: The long and winding road

The automotive industry’s goal was for every new vehicle to be connected by 2022. Now, less than 18 months out, things are more or less on track. But on track for what? M2M vehicle connectivity is already widely available. This enables a vehicle to be connected to an...

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