Capgemini has announced the opening of a ‘5G Solutions Centre’ in North America to help organisations innovate with 5G and Edge technologies. Located in San Francisco at Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE), the centre provides an environment for creating innovative use cases for 5G-based solutions through focused workshops with clients and partners, to put 5G at the heart of their business.
The San Francisco centre’s capabilities focus on the creation of high value use cases and personalised solutions to answer each specific client need. It draws on an innovation ecosystem of technology partners to experience all the new possibilities available to organisations, and Capgemini’s expertise in building end-to-end 5G solutions within a 5G connectivity environment. The centre will support Network Equipment Providers (NEPs), Communication Services Providers (CSPs), enterprises, and industrial players to accelerate their deployment of next-generation services and solutions and monetise what 5G can bring to their business.
“5G and Edge computing are the technologies that inspire data-driven transformation, providing significant value to operational modernisation and helping clients succeed in the Intelligent Industry,” says Brian Bronson, president of Americas and APAC at Capgemini Engineering. “Our new 5G Solutions Centre in San Francisco provides early access to technology infrastructure and use cases for 5G-based solutions and demonstrates Capgemini’s ability to help clients accelerate their 5G journey.”
Capgemini and its partners are developing use cases tailored to answer their specific client requirements and connectivity challenges with best return on investment. The ‘5G Solutions Centre’ is presenting use cases covering different industrial market segments, such as: Augmented Assistance to improve safety and performance, reduce downtime, minimise errors; Smart Surveillance to reinforce security and safety; Smart Health to increase speed of diagnostic, contributing to saving lives, improve user experience and offer on-remote access to specialists with remote consultation from any location.
The San Francisco centre complements Capgemini’s 5G Labs located in Europe (in Paris, France; and in Fundao, Portugal) and in India (Mumbai), which are designed to help organisations across every industry pivot their business to be ready to take advantage of the 5G and Edge revolution, enabling data-driven transformation to achieve Intelligent Industry.
Arleen Cauchi, director partner co-innovation at Verizon Business Group says, “At Verizon we are engaged in providing early access to technology and believe in the value of an ecosystem of partners to explore how 5G can disrupt and transform nearly every industry. The success of the Verizon Business Connected Healthcare Centre in the UK, built in collaboration with Visionable, Capgemini and Juniper, demonstrates the benefits of such co-innovation hubs to ideate and co-create new models and 5G applications that will benefit customers and society. We’re excited for the opportunity to also demonstrate co-innovated solutions at the new Capgemini 5G Solutions Centre as part of our ongoing collaboration with Capgemini and our shared dedication to collaborative 5G innovation across industries.”
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