This webinar will explore how satellite communications can bring forward cost efficiencies in rural and remote regions that fiber and microwave simply cannot. The discussion will highlight the enabling technologies and recent technological innovations, including high-throughput satellites, software-defined satellites, and advanced phased array antennas. The presentation will also compare the strengths and weaknesses of LEO, MEO, and GEO constellations, and discuss the possible synergies between GEO and LEO solutions as well as the underlying strengths at the core of GEO satellites. Finally, it will provide market forecasts on the respective demand and adoption of these satellite types.
While 5G development is ushering in new market opportunities, mobile products, and user experiences, the devices market is being upset by a number of issues, including a disruption of the mobile devices supply chain, premature acceleration of 5G smartphones to low price points, the emergence of always-on broadband experiences, new device types, and a drastic order change to the vendor landscape. This webinar will look at these issues and will elaborate on potential winners and losers throughout this market transformation.
(Panel Discussion) The RTLS landscape remains fragmented, with hundreds of start-ups and small players developing various location software algorithms and hardware technologies. These range from Bluetooth, UWB, Wi-Fi, and visual light communication within indoor environments, to high-precision GNSS and cellular positioning in outdoor environments. As a result, the RTLS landscape lacks an established and mature ecosystem, has relied heavily on verticalized proprietary solutions, and has been difficult to scale effectively. This panel aims to understand what challenges are facing the RTLS market today and how key industry players can help create a more scalable, open, secure, RTLS ecosystem that will stimulate growth in 2021 and beyond. The panel will also investigate opportunities and challenges of 5G positioning as a challenger to existing RTLS technologies, discuss when the technology will mature, and what markets it will initially address.
This webinar will explain the newly mapped out IoT analytics value chain, focusing on technologies such as edge, stream processing & analytics, data ingestion and data integration, core analytics, storage, and AI/ML, as well as professional services. It will provide insight into the Enabled Ecosystem, with an emphasis on partnership (SI/VAR MD) and the importance of Azure, AWS, and IBM marketplaces as distribution channels for analytics vendors. Finally, It will highlight results of our recent competitive analysis and introduce companies to watch.
Cellular network infrastructure has traditionally been the exclusive domain of a few large vendors. However, open networks, Open RAN, and network virtualization are now exposing the value chain to a variety of new entrants. Network virtualization disaggregates software from hardware and standardizes open interfaces and reference designs. As a result, MNOs can work with different stakeholders, such as Radio vendors, chipset suppliers, system integrators, and application developers, to build a multi-vendor interoperable and modular-based system and reduce time to the market. This webinar will share ABI Research’s view of these value propositions and business strategies in building the modular-based system to foster a healthy and sustainable telco ecosystem. This webinar will also discuss the ability of open cellular networks to bring new opportunities to various industrial verticals and drive innovation, therefore improving their network security and performance and operation efficiency.
The entry of hyperscalers into the telco domain will fundamentally reshape the value chain for enterprise cellular connectivity, as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft start to integrate on-premise, telco edge and public cloud infrastructure that will now include connectivity in the form of private cellular. Ultimately, it will put them in a prime position to unlock the US$ 63 Billion private networks opportunity, the ABI Research projects for 2030. Anticipating this development, this webinar will offer a systematic analysis of what this change means from a telco point of view and how it will change the opportunity to monetize enterprise 5G deployments in the long term.
IoT identities are critical to the secure management of devices throughout their lifecycle, from protecting IPRs during manufacture to securing OTA updates and vulnerability patching after deployment. The identities of devices is a major challenge in the IoT not only due to the range and diversity of such devices across sectors, but also because of the varying network connections available (e.g., LPWA, Cellular, etc.). Numerous solutions are emerging within the market, both in hardware and software variants, which are suitable for myriad use cases. Beyond that, new service platforms are emerging that will securely monitor and manage those identities. This fragmented landscape is nascent but highly dynamic, with determined vendors keen to exploit the lucrative opportunities of adjacent markets in secure provisioning, onboarding, and lifecycle management.
(Panel Discussion) This panel discussion will cover the technologies that will enable cost-effective deployments of massive numbers of devices and sensors for not only traditional applications such as asset tracking, but which will also enable the innovation for new IoT use cases. Key topics discussed include:
(Panel Discussion) For telcos, the artificial intelligence era is just getting started, as AI is being integrated into vertical industries as well. The diverse nature of use cases and the complexity of today’s telco networks create new challenges on networks, including performance, service dynamicity, and latency. These challenges, along with the ongoing quest to institute new commercial models, has forced the telco industry to shift their operations from reactive to AI-assisted, and eventually closed-loop operations. The demand, therefore, is for AI- and analytics-based solutions that deliver intelligent analytics, automation, and assurance for existing physical and soloed infrastructure and processes.
The global pandemic engendered a new level of remote work, online collaboration, and workflows. Although the appetite for adopting collaborative tools has been healthy in recent years, enabling technologies struggled to address the necessary pain-points for a wider market adoption. In many ways, the pandemic helped validate these earlier trends and has played a key role in accelerating technology innovation, expanding perceptions and opening the door wider to new opportunities. In this webinar, we will discuss these accelerated trends, notably the impact of technologies such as content cloudification, 5G and AI on content delivery, and collaborative content in particular. Impacts within the M&E and enterprise markets will be highlighted beyond "zoom calls" to explore the profound changes that are looming on the horizon.
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As the dust settles from the LPWAN technology hype, the question is whether these mainstream technologies will perish in pilot purgatory or succeed in enabling the massive IoT market. In the last decade, the technology landscape has evolved. However, there’s increasing business complexity as enterprises decide the right technology for specific IoT use-case. The session will provide the audience with insights and analysis on vertical IoT applications driving LPWA technology growth In key regions. The panel discussion will offer industry leaders voice their opinion on how LPWAN technologies will help accelerate the creation of a digital society.
As Augmented Reality proves value across industries, the enabling technologies and potential pitfalls around AR implementations becomes increasingly important to understand. The market is moving from targeted, vertical approaches to more flexible and horizontal opportunities, while the new working environment of today demands efficient collaboration between workers, often split between office/worksite and remote locations. New business models, with greater portfolio granularity and more as a Service (aaS) AR offerings, are reaching the market to address this shift in workforce demands and market focus. Immersive visualization opportunities, leveraging enabling technologies such as 5G, AI, and digital twin/thread, can fill business continuity gaps and maximize workforce potential.
This webinar will examine the opportunities and challenges AR presents across markets, as well as what’s required to ensure success. Considerations across hardware and software, necessary preparations, high value partnership opportunities, and likely results will be presented. This will be grounded with quantitative analysis on addressable market size, growth opportunities, and ROI evaluations for varying markets and enterprise types.
This webinar will discuss the substantial supply chain challenges introduced by the COVID-19 vaccine and provide strategies for addressing these challenges proactively, including by selecting the right technologies.
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5G is rolling out with infrastructure and mobile devices. However the COVID pandemic demonstrated the need for regulators and telcos to improve digital resilience, and improving ultra-fast broadband access for homes, small offices and home offices should be a central component of these efforts. This webinar will answer key questions, including:
(Panel Discussion) Asia-Pacific countries are interested in large scale smart city initiatives to boost welfare, make transport hubs more efficient, and realize greater resilience. Topics for discussion will include: