![]() ![]() Until now, according to Verizon, the port’s infrastructure has suffered from “poor wifi connectivity” and the loss of onsite data communications. More than £40bn worth of exports, around 900,000 vehicles, and millions of cruise ship passengers pass through Southampton every year, making it one of the UK’s busiest hubs of maritime trade and travel. ![]() In the UK, Nokia itself is helping to drive this transformation - recently partnering with US carrier Verizon and the Port of Southampton to deploy 5G as the foundation for IoT and machine learning applications to improve operations. Stephane Daeuble, Head of Enterprise Solution Marketing at Nokia, explains that “These can only be achieved through incorporating technology such as automation and IoT, which are heavily reliant on robust, secure private wireless networks for success.” In asset-intensive industries like manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, efficiency, productivity, and safety are all high priorities for operators. He stresses that “While 5G is going to be exciting for us as consumers, when we think about the importance of 5G as a transformational technology, it's going to be in those physical industries.” “These are the mission-critical industries - where lives are often at risk - and you need technology that can be trusted absolutely.” It’s in these spaces, where the power of 5G to improve automation, support more powerful forms of computing closer to the edge, underpinned by a greater level of IoT saturation than we’ve ever seen before, “is going to be really transformational.” “But what we've not seen yet, is the same level of digital transformation in industries like transportation and manufacturing,” he says. What we haven’t seen, Siveter continues, is as much of a transformational effect on physical spaces. It's allowed us to access online banking using our phones, to be able to book restaurants and so forth.” “In some part, that's been underpinned by technologies like 4G. And we've seen a massive transformation of those industries as a result,” he explains. Over the last 15 years, we've seen a massive transformation of what you might call the digital industries, with things like online banking, streaming, and we're all consuming just about everything through the cloud. ![]()
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