Ericsson has signed a reseller agreement with Comsol during the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.
The agreement gives Comsol the right to resell Ericsson's high-speed wireless networking solution, Ericsson Private 5G, as Comsol looks to expand its enterprise business within South Africa’s mining industry.
The companies say by combining Ericsson’s connectivity solution and Comsol’s expertise in mining and systems integration, the collaboration is set to help the nation’s mining industry improve worker safety, increase operational efficiency, and realise its sustainability goals.
Private 5G is Ericsson’s next generation private network solution to provide secure and reliable 4G and 5G connectivity through its single server dual mode core. It comes pre-integrated to enable rapid time to use and turning on advanced and intelligent operations in any environment.
According to the two companies, the solution will help the mining industry gain robust 4G/LTE and 5G Standalone connectivity, and help Comsol’s customers optimise and simplify business operations through data creation, collection, and analysis.
Gary Woolley, Comsol executive: private networks believes Ericsson's Private 5G solution will drive digitalisation and further enhance the low latency, high throughput network Comsol offers.
Todd Ashton, VP and head of South and East Africa at Ericsson Middle East and Africa, adds that the company's pre-packaged and pre-integrated private network solution, will enable Comsol’s customers to achieve better operational efficiency and safety. "Installed in minimal time, Ericsson Private 5G offers Comsol the reliable and complete coverage on both indoor and outdoor sites," he says.
Ericsson successfully delivered a proof of concept (PoC) implementing the Ericsson Private 5G solution as a pre-packaged standalone implementation of the Ericsson Dual Mode Core, which supports end-to-end cellular data-only services focusing primarily on enterprise applications.
Comsol will utilise the PoC solution to experiment and test various use cases for mining and other industries, including augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, and fixed wireless access.
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