Private 5G
Cisco and NTT pull together
NTT and Cisco have now announced the plans for their collaboration. The aim is to promote private 5G in the automotive, logistics, retail, public sector and healthcare sectors.
NTT and Cisco plan to jointly develop and bring to market technologies and managed services that enable enterprises to deploy Private 5G. To achieve this goal, they plan to accelerate edge connectivity through NTT's first market-ready managed Private 5G solution in combination with Intel hardware. This approach is designed to enable organizations to seamlessly integrate Private 5G into their existing LAN, WAN and cloud infrastructure.
The two partners emphasize that the advantage of the collaboration is that they are able to provide critical Industry 4.0 capacities very quickly. These include push-to-talk communication via walkie-talkies, driverless transport systems (AGV), permanently connected PCs for mobile employees and machine vision for predictive maintenance or the recognition of personal protective equipment (PPE).
"In Germany in particular, companies are still lagging behind in the digital transformation for a variety of reasons," says Kai Grunwitz, CEO of NTT Germany. "It is therefore all the more important that they have access to simple solutions for complex problems. Managed Private 5G solutions from NTT and Cisco have the potential to become a real game changer for the comprehensive modernization of Germany as an industrial location."










