Seafaring analogies are nothing new from a company that gave the world Bluetooth, named after a 10th century Viking, but Ericsson’s advocacy for a rising tide raising all ships could be crucial to innovating the next gen telecom standard (5G).
“Interoperability has been a foundation of telecom since the very beginning,” said Ulf Ewaldsson, Ericsson’s CTO. “The data world is only now going through that transformation, and realizing the promise of cloud computing, and that of the Internet of Things overall, depends on there being a new model for connectivity.”
Data systems have traditionally been built as proprietary, closed systems, whether for computing or other forms of digital content, like entertainment. It’s why a movie file might not play on your particular device, or a business struggle to make data from its enterprise system available online.
Even though the adoption of the latest tech for communication, called LTE (“4G”), has been no less than stunning — it took only half a decade to get 1 billion users on the network — the IT adaptation to it has been sometimes difficult and inconsistent.
“We’re calling for more collaboration with the IT community on the development of 5G,” Ewaldsson said.

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