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NTT DATA integrated Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) with the City of Brownsville’s private 5G network to extend unified identity and access control across diverse endpoints (cameras, sensors, tablets). This links enterprise NAC policies into the 5G domain, improving governance, visibility, and policy enforcement for smart city operations.

South African connectivity provider Comsol is emphasizing the growing strategic role of private 5G networks in industrial operations, where AI, autonomous vehicles, robotics and real-time analytics demand reliable, low-latency connectivity. Gary Woolley, Chief Commercial Officer for Enterprise at Comsol, highlights the importance of aligning private network investments with operational objectives across engineering, safety, finance and IT teams. Citing Ericsson's private wireless deployment at Newmont in Australia, which achieved a 25% productivity increase per shift for remotely operated dozers, Comsol advocates integrated connectivity architectures combining private 5G, Wi-Fi, fiber and edge computing. The approach enables secure data processing, predictive maintenance, resilient industrial automation and measurable business outcomes across mining, manufacturing, logistics and other mission-critical environments.

Infosys is advancing the vision of private production networks as the foundation for Physical AI and industrial digital transformation. Dinesh Rao, EVP and Chief Delivery Officer at Infosys, highlights how private 5G, edge cloud, software-defined networking and agentic AI can enable autonomous robots, intelligent manufacturing, smart ports, mining operations and connected utilities. The approach integrates 5G/6G, fiber and IT/OT infrastructure into technology-agnostic networks that support low-latency communications, real-time analytics and mission-critical automation. Infosys also emphasizes AI-driven self-healing networks, human-supervised autonomous operations and multi-vendor interoperability, supported by its global Living Labs ecosystem. These capabilities are helping enterprises move toward scalable Physical AI applications, intelligent infrastructure and increasingly autonomous industrial operations.