Verizon Business has teamed up with a leading UK based health technology company, Visionable, alongside support from Capgemini and Juniper Networks to open a technology-led centre dedicated to accelerating the adoption of connected healthcare technology for patient-centric care. Based in Kent, this centre offers the chance for visitors to experience the opportunities technology provides in transforming the patient care journey.   
The new technologies on display include Verizon’s private 5G and AI-driven secure networks from Juniper. The idea being to see this technology in a healthcare context and demonstrate the benefits of collaborating on next…

Verizon Business has teamed up with a leading UK based health technology company, Visionable, alongside support from Capgemini and Juniper Networks to open a technology-led centre dedicated to accelerating the adoption of connected healthcare technology for patient-centric care. Based in Kent, this centre offers the chance for visitors to experience the opportunities technology provides in transforming the patient care journey.   

The new technologies on display include Verizon’s private 5G and AI-driven secure networks from Juniper. The idea being to see this technology in a healthcare context and demonstrate the benefits of collaborating on next-generation connectivity within relevant healthcare environments. The areas they look to cover include General Practices, consulting rooms, emergency services, care homes, patient homes, and rehabilitation centres.   

On Verizon’s website Scott Lawrence, Group Vice President of Verizon Business in Europe, states: “In order to accelerate change in how healthcare is delivered, it is crucial that healthcare organizations come together and witness these transformational applications firsthand” and describes the centre as having “been developed to provide a dedicated space for professionals to see connected healthcare in action, and more importantly, work together as a community to build new applications and use cases. This collaboration will help revolutionize how healthcare is delivered.”   

The subject of collaboration is a key theme of this demonstration with the centre able to act as a dedicated collaboration hub to encourage co-creation of technology concepts so partners can develop innovative solutions for the future of healthcare.   

“The Connected Healthcare Center will enable collaboration between healthcare professionals and global technology partners to ideate & co-create new models of care for the future delivery of healthcare services, which we believe will benefit millions of patients worldwide.” said Alan Lowe, CEO, Visionable.  

Verizon have outlined how “demonstration zones” will showcase the following:   

– Patient home / care home / virtual ward: Virtual wards that provide a digital end-to-end journey from remote patient monitoring to specialist patient support and patient-led peer-to-peer support.  

– Connected emergency services: Wearable technology to communicate with remote clinicians and the use of video, diagnostic and data feeds to quickly share information with specialist clinicians via a connected device in the responder vehicle.  

– General Practice surgery: Use of multi-screen, multi-feed, collaboration platforms in delivering informed collaborative patient / citizen care.  

– Hospital ward: The digitalization of care pathways for faster diagnosis and improved patient outcomes to Multidisciplinary teams (MDT) collaboration  

– Rehabilitation center: Enabling virtual group consultations between a care provider and a group of people/patients to support recovery post-discharge.  

The message is clear, this strategic partnership aims to make connected healthcare a reality displaying exactly how Verizon and Visionable can allow healthcare professionals to securely access data, collaborate with one another, and share resources.   

The impact of connected healthcare was highlighted by Lynne A. Dunbrack, Group Vice President, Public Sector for IDC who said, “5G technology with its performance enhancements of increased speed, reduced latency, and improved density will enable expansion of care everywhere use cases. Healthcare organizations are starting to leverage a wide range of connected health technologies to provide urgent, chronic, and preventive care to patients on-demand anytime and anywhere to provide convenient access to high-quality, cost-effective healthcare services.”  

The centre has an additional purpose to add credence to Verizon’s broader vision to partner with startups, universities, enterprises, and governments to explore how 5G can disrupt and transform a variety of industries.   

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Whether CAMRA (Campaign for real ale) would approve is not entirely clear but Tommi Uitto, President of Mobile Networks at Nokia says their latest collaboration with University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is helping & »…

Whether CAMRA (Campaign for real ale) would approve is not entirely clear but Tommi Uitto, President of Mobile Networks at Nokia says their latest collaboration with University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is helping « optimize the brewing process and move ever closer to achieving the perfect pint ».

The world’s first private wireless and 5G connected digital microbrewery utilises a cloud-based digital twin of an actual brewery to optimize the brewing process. The Nano-Brewery in the project is part of an international production network, with an identical physical twin set up in TU Dortmund University in Germany – ensuring this is truly global brewing! The 5G connected brewery captures and monitors production data at every step of the brewing process and uses this data, together with data from the physical twin in Dortmund and a digital twin in the cloud, to optimize the process.

Professor Jochen Deuse, Director of Centre for Advanced Manufacturing at UTS, said: “Our goal is to promote Industry 4.0 principles to local industry by offering a testbed that gives partners the keys to improve their own manufacturing processes and gain business intelligence. »

5G connectivity for the microbrewery is provided by Nokia’s FastMile 5G Gateways connected to a campus-wide Nokia Digital Automation Cloud 5G Standalone private wireless network. The private wireless 5G network is part of the on-site Nokia 5G Futures Lab and also supports other Industry 4.0 projects within Tech Lab such as the Australian Government-funded Nokia/UTS 5G Connected Cobots project.

Wi-Fi networks in the home are set to become more interactive after the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) published new deployment guidelines on Wi-Fi Sensing which will enable new applications and revenue streams in markets such as home security…

Wi-Fi Sensing is set to become an integral part of the smart home concept tapping into a previously ignored source of artificial intelligence for preventative and analytics-driven solutions. The technology uses existing Wi-Fi signals to sense motion making Wi-Fi networks more interactive. The benefits to the user fall into multiple areas including convenience, peace of mind, health insights, and privacy.

CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance, Tiago Rodrigues, believes this could be a great boost for Wi-Fi service providers giving them a foundation to expand into a wide variety of exciting new markets, including health care, home security and building automation.

Pioneer Consulting, the full-service submarine fiber optic telecommunications consulting and project management company, along with Southern Cross, announces that the Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable project has been granted Provisional Acceptance. The culmination of the submarine segments of the cable system marks the nearing completion of a project six years in the making that will be the largest and lowest-latency route connecting Australia…

Pioneer Consulting, the full-service submarine fiber optic telecommunications consulting and project management company, along with Southern Cross, announces that the Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable project has been granted Provisional Acceptance. The culmination of the submarine segments of the cable system marks the nearing completion of a project six years in the making that will be the largest and lowest-latency route connecting Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.

Throughout the project, Pioneer Consulting oversaw and handled the dynamic elements of the project, including market and business case analysis, procurement and contracting, project implementation, quality assurance, and shipboard representation, ensuring the successful commissioning of the subsea system between each cable station. Granting Provisional Acceptance for the subsea system, which includes the trunk cable between Sydney, Auckland, and Los Angeles along with branches to Fiji, Tokelau, and Kiribati, represents the material completion of the Southern Cross NEXT system marine program.

The Southern Cross NEXT system will provide 72 Tbit/s of capacity and will add to the existing Southern Cross network ecosystem, which includes 12 cable stations and eight major datacenter hubs in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. The Southern Cross network spans six countries and eight time zones, connected by over 45,000 km (28,000 mile) of cable – greater than the Earth’s circumference.

« This has been a truly incredible project that allowed us to demonstrate the full breadth of our submarine telecom consulting services, » said Gavin Tully, Managing Partner of Pioneer Consulting. “We’re proud to have supported taking what was once an idea and helping make it a reality. It has been a pleasure to work alongside Southern Cross and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) during each crucial stage of NEXT’s development, and we eagerly look forward to the cable’s forthcoming entry into commercial service. »

« We are tremendously proud to have completed this critical phase of NEXT’s development in partnership with Pioneer Consulting, » said Laurie Miller, CEO of Southern Cross Cable Network. « Once activated, this high-capacity route will provide enhanced reliability and network efficiency from Los Angeles to Sydney, and all points between. »

The installation of the submarine cable system was performed by Alcatel Submarine Networks, who additionally designed and manufactured the cable, repeaters, and branching units. The system is expected to initiate commercial service on July 7th, 2022.

Alain Biston, President of Alcatel Submarine Networks, said: “ASN is very proud of achieving, in spite of very difficult conditions resulting from the global pandemic, the crucial milestone of Provisional Acceptance for Southern Cross NEXT, which concludes another chapter of our long-standing partnership with Southern Cross. After building the original Southern Cross cable network more than twenty years ago, we are honored to have been cooperating again to provide more broadband connectivity to the South Pacific region, bringing into the fold several previously underserved communities.”

Gavin Tully is chairing day one of Submarine Networks EMEA in London on the 17-18 May 2022. To book your tickets visit www.totaltele.com/subnets