Ericsson, TIM and Comau build experimental ‘factory of the future‘

Italian operator TIM, Swedish kit vendor Ericsson and Italian automation/robotics firm Comau promise ‘innovative solutions for Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing’ thanks to some fresh 5G network slicing.
Tim and Ericsson deployed a 5G network in Comau’s HQ in Turin, Italy, in order to demonstrate what network slicing in industrial settings might be capable of. Or as they rather more bombastically put it ‘to test the factory of the future’.
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