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Fraport goes all in on private 5G network

CIO Business Intelligence

Oswald adds the importance of illumination for operation because when material or equipment have to be transported to an aircraft over long distances, it’s time-consuming for employees since the speed limit on the apron is 30 km/h. Autonomous vehicles controlled by 5G would help to alleviate this.

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Amazon reveals a secret about its Project Kuiper satellites: They’re using laser links

GeekWire

“Per their FCC license , Kuiper has to launch about half of their constellation, or about 1,600 satellites, by the summer of 2026. Four years ago , Project Kuiper’s job postings signaled that it was planning to develop a 100-Gbps laser link system. Space Force’s Space Development Agency.

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SpaceX to acquire small satellite startup Swarm Technologies

The Verge

36 SpaceBee smallsats launch to space aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in January 2021, during SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission with 107 other satellites on board. The deal, struck last month, is extremely rare for SpaceX, which normally manufactures its rocket and satellite hardware in-house or hires subcontractors.

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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

TM Forum

5G spectrum auctions enabled MNOs to purchase licenses for exclusive use of new frequency bands, many of which are in the higher spectrum bands towards the millimeter wave (mmWave). The cost of these licenses in many countries broke all previous records, and MNOs registered a great deal of disquiet. Spectrum costs. architectures.

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Gaming in 2023: What to expect from Microsoft, Sony, Amazon, Valve, Nintendo, and others

GeekWire

Redfall , a cooperative vampire-hunting action game by Dishonored developer Arkane Studios, will launch in the first half of the year as an Xbox/Windows exclusive. A similar licensing negotiation was being conducted with Smash World Tour, but it abruptly fell through Nov.

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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

GeekWire

The new reactor will be the same size as Polaris, and include additional hardware and technology for putting energy on the grid. Helion Photo) The commercial project will largely be licensed and regulated by the state Department of Health , which previously approved three of Helion’s test devices. The Redmond, Wash. ”

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Technology Short Take #37

Scott Lowe

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Servers/Hardware.

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