NEWS
Ericsson and Fraunhofer IPT launch
5G-Industry Campus Europe
partners at 5G-Industry Campus Europe will investigate application
scenarios in seven sub-projects within the field of production. These
include 5G sensors for monitoring and controlling highly complex
manufacturing processes to mobile robotics, logistics and multi-site
production chains. In addition, scientists at RWTH Aachen University
want to test the use of modern Edge cloud systems for fast data
processing to exploit the potential of 5G in a networked, adaptive
production. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and Swedish Prime
Minister, Stefan Löfven, were updated on the progress and benefits
of 5G-Industry Campus Europe during a visit to the Hannover Messe
trade fair in 2019.
E ricsson and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology
(IPT), have launched 5G-Industry Campus Europe, the continent’s
largest industrial 5G research network, to jointly explore with
companies and research partners further areas in which 5G can be
applied within production and to test these as practically as possible. 5G-Industry Campus Europe’s outdoor private networks at RWTH
Aachen University cover an area of about 1 km sq. Its indoor private
networks – in the machine halls of the participating partners, which
represent all fields of production technology – cover an area of
almost 7,000 m sq.
Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
(BMVI) is funding the consortium, which Fraunhofer IPT is
coordinating on the Melaten campus at RWTH Aachen University,
in order to set up the regional 5G research network. Fraunhofer IPT
has selected Ericsson as its private 5G networks supplier. The project The facilities are equipped with state-of-the-art IT and production
systems, offering unique infrastructure to jointly test individual
5G and IoT applications together with the research partners and
develop these earlier than usual. This means the partners can benefit
directly from 5G-Industry Campus Europe.
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Online gaming company secures cloud
strategy with Netskope
N
etskope, a leader in cloud security, has
announced that award-winning Isle of
Man-based online gaming software supplier,
Microgaming, is using Netskope’s Security
Cloud. This move is designed to support
the movement of key business applications
to the cloud. The Netskope Security Cloud
provides visibility and real-time data and
threat protection when accessing cloud
services, websites and private apps from
anywhere, on any device.
Information Security Manager, Samantha
Hoffmann, said: “We have been able to
migrate to the cloud because our Netskope
Security Cloud has given us the borderless
visibility and control we need.”
Netskope is providing Microgaming with
real-time controls between users and
the cloud, the protection of sensitive
information and the ability to control
shadow IT. Netskope immediately identified
700 unsanctioned cloud apps being used
within Microgaming and Netskope’s Cloud
Confidence Index (CCI) provides ongoing
assessment of the security credentials of any
cloud application.
With the intention of migrating to the cloud
with Office 365, Microgaming selected
Netskope’s combined Cloud Access Security
Broker (CASB) and next-generation Secure
Web Gateway (NG-SWG) to map every
web and cloud transaction, enabling it to
understand user activity across all SaaS and
IaaS services and any website. Netskope also
unifies Microgaming’s policy management
across both cloud and web traffic from a
single cloud-native platform. Microgaming’s
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