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AT & T participates in DoD demo of 5G-enabled smart warehouse solutions at Naval Base Coronado
enablement of a Naval Smart Warehouse . The demonstrations occurred at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego where the smart warehouse concept is being explored by DoD .
AT & T ’ s private 5G network at the base delivered data throughput speeds of 3.9 gigabits per second with less than 10 milliseconds of latency when powering the demonstrations .
The goal of the 5G Smart Warehouse project at Naval Base Coronado is to increase the efficiency and fidelity of naval logistic operations including identification , recording , organization , storage , retrieval and the transportation of supplies .
Amanda Toman , Acting Principal Director of 5G-NextG , Office of the Under Secretary of Defense , Research and Engineering , said : “ This is a key example of organizations coming together in a collaborative environment with our Armed Forces to explore the art of the possible in 5G .
AT & T has participated in a US Department of Defense ( DoD ) and US Navy demonstration showcasing a variety of 5G-powered technology solutions that can support the
“ We ’ re not just building for the warfighter ; we are also innovating with the American citizen in mind . DoD is working to accelerate the development and deployment of 5G-enabled capabilities across many use cases while ensuring those systems – as well as those of our allies and partners – are robust , protected and reliable .”
Critical operations threatened by application incompatibility for most businesses
Over three-quarters of organizations ( 77 %) have at least one application that is not compatible with the latest version of Windows , with up to a quarter of all applications ( 25 %) incompatible for 89 % of organizations .
This is according to new research of UK and US CIOs commissioned by Cloudhouse – an application compatibility packaging and configuration management solutions provider .
Despite these findings , almost a third of businesses ( 32 %) reported that between 16-25 % of their applications are critical to their business operations , while 36 % cited modernization as an urgent priority .
Ensuring application compatibility is therefore pivotal , but organizations are also hesitant to initiate such projects , with almost a quarter of organizations ( 24 %) either not at all or not very confident in their ability to fully upgrade these platforms to be 100 % compatible with the latest version of the Windows operating system .
This lack of confidence among CIOs may stem from the fact that half of all businesses ( 50 %) feel that there is a significant amount of work to still be done to modernize applications for compatibility with newer Windows versions .
Additionally , 25 % believe that they ’ ve now ironed out most issues , but there is still some work to be done to ensure modernization . Only one in five ( 20 %) have a comprehensive plan in place .
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