Posten, the Norwegian postal service, has recruited the native division of Swedish operator Telia to deploy a personal 5G community at its new terminal in Oslo Logistikkpark Drøbak, northwest of Oslo. The agency mentioned it expects to run all its operational information over the community, each inside and outdoors the depot constructing itself. The 5G community is backed-up (“in case of “connection points”) with a satellite tv for pc hyperlink. Posten additionally has two fibre cables to the greenfield facility to connect with cloud companies and its personal central programs, it mentioned.
The seller has not been named, however Telia works with country-mate Ericsson on most of its non-public mobile tasks. The implication, within the press word asserting the deployment, is that Posten was motivated to scale back downtime, elevate cybersecurity ranges, and allow the sort of community flexibility to help diversified warehouse operations. It famous “optimum efficiency and enhanced safety”, and the timing of the challenge, additionally, which is stay for the busy Christmas interval. Telia has labored with Posten (as its “know-how companion”) since late 2021.
Arne Erik Berntzen, chief info officer at Posten, mentioned: “After we had been going to construct a brand new terminal, we wished to see if it was doable to base all information communication on the cellular community. It offers safe communication for all our units – each inside and outdoors the terminal. Offering protection in a constructing equivalent to [this] may be troublesome, because the calls for change relying on what’s on the cabinets…. We’re utterly depending on our tools being linked always. Downtime is expensive and stops manufacturing. With this… we shall be linked in the very best approach.”
Jon Christian Hillestad, head of enterprise at Telia Norway, mentioned: “The benefits of such a facility is that it ensures full availability and capability for the tools that Posten is totally depending on in its operation of the terminal. A personal 5G community can also be the most secure type of wi-fi communication, and affords a totally completely different stage of safety, mobility, and efficiency that you just don’t get with – for instance – Wi-Fi. It is vitally inspiring to work with a buyer like Posten, which challenges us and has ambitions to turn into much more digital and wi-fi. [Its] new terminal is an ideal instance of that.”
