NTT is joining forces with ServiceNow to offer customers a total digitization solution that leverages a private 5G network.
NTT wants to roll out private 5G networks for customers, and since today has partnered with ServiceNow to simplify the integration of business processes on it. NTT is providing the network, while ServiceNow, with the help of AI and ML, is devising automated workflows that take full advantage of that 5G network.
Automation and integration
The solution will be offered by both NTT Data Services and ServiceNow. NTT will sell automated workflows from ServiceNow in one bundle with its private 5G solution, which it announced last year. The new workflows will be integrated with existing processes. Each solution will be tailored to the customer’s needs. Therefore, there is no standard pricing strategy.
NTT believes private 5G networks will be able to provide high-speed, low-latency connections to remote corners of business areas that have traditionally been difficult to serve with Wi-Fi. That will make it possible to connect more sensors and devices than ever before. Connectivity thus becomes the backbone of further digitization within a company. ServiceNow will have a role in the practical use of the 5G networks.
No 5G without a license
According to NTT, there is much enthusiasm in the business world for private 5G networks worldwide. In Europe, however, the ambitions of ServiceNow and NTT do not seem so easy to achieve. After all, here you always need a license to deploy a 5G network, even on a small private scale. Which part of the spectrum in our country can be used to issue such a license is currently not even clear. For that, the Belgian 5G auction must take place first.
So for now, the practical potential of the cooperation between NTT and ServiceNow is limited with us. This is different in the US, for example, where companies can build 5G networks themselves without too many administrative hurdles.