BROWSING: SAS

NTIA supports longer reauthorization periods for CBRS devices

Federal agency says that the change will provide more stability for CBRS use The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has indicated its support for a change to the operations of Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) Spectrum Access Systems (SAS): Longer duration of the period in...

Federated eyes role as 6 GHz spectrum coordinator, signs with Wi-Fi 6E suppliers

Federated Wireless has been conditionally approved as an automated frequency coordination (AFC) system operator by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to go alongside its role as gatekeeper for CBRS spectrum access for private cellular deployments in the US. The firm has already struck commercial...

Nokia intros devices and features for private 5G in CBRS 3.5 GHz, Anterix 900 MHz in US

The other Industry 4.0 announcement from Nokia’s enterprise group this week, ahead of Hannover Messe USA next week, is about 5G devices, plus spectrum access and new dashboarding for private 5G systems. The Finnish firm, fresh from talking industrial software, and following its separate...

The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 3 – the spectrum

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...

SAS helps improve vaccine cold chain integrity with IoT analytics

The NC Collaboratory turned to SAS Analytics for IoT and Microsoft Azure for this project   The North Carolina Collaboratory and analytics specialist SAS are using IoT analytics and sensor data from vaccine storage freezers to strengthen cold chain integrity and improve dosage delivery, particularly to...

Semtech Webinar: The transition from ‘Connected’ to ‘Smart’ by leveraging data & analytics

 Accessibility to Internet of Things (IoT) technology and the diverse data it uncovers is key to combating some of the globe's most significant challenges that require improved situational awareness, from natural disasters to hunger and even sustainability. Increasingly, more and more companies are leveraging...

Neutral host will be the winner; network slicing will be the loser (Celona on 2022)

2021 was a wild one for the 5G market. It was kind of like a roller coaster; exciting and ultimately rewarding, but also filled with a lot of unexpected twists and turns. Particularly for applications like private 5G, the markets became something of a...

AWS rolls network, compute, devices into one-stop managed private 5G service

Big news in the excitable private 5G universe; Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced its own private 5G service, AWS Private 5G, incorporating small cell radio access network (RAN) units, core and RAN software, and subscriber identity modules (SIM cards), plus sundry edge servers...

Federated Wireless, Learning Alliance to train 2,000 CBRS network installers

Federated Wireless is working with Learning Alliance Corporation, offering vocational training with businesses and colleges, to issue more than 2,000 certificates to newly qualified private-network installation engineers working with LTE in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) in the US. They said the move is...

Extreme Networks makes plans to acquire Infovista’s SD-WAN business

Extreme Networks announced its intent to acquire Ipanematech SAS, or Ipanema, the SD-WAN division of Infovista for approximately $73 million. The acquisition will expand Extreme’s R&D footprint in Europe, where Ipanema has established partnerships with managed services providers and systems integrators. The purchase will also...

Semtech, SAS bundle IoT and AI for flooding, farming; Senet cites record LoRaWAN traffic

Semtech Corporation is working with US analytics company SAS to bundle LoRaWAN connectivity with IoT streaming analytics. The strategy is to make IoT-based sensor solutions more easily accessible to data analytics specialists, and to bring edge and cloud data analytics to IoT users. Meanwhile,...

Nokia bundles spectrum access and radio sensing into CBRS offer in the US

Nokia has integrated a spectrum access and radio sensing mechanisms into its private LTE and 5G offer for priority and general access users in the CBRS band in the US. The Finnish firm has partnered with Virginia-based Key Bridge Wireless on the solution, which...

Carriers can broker vertical spectrum access for private LTE and 5G, says Nokia

Note, this article continues from a previous post, entitled, ‘Three-tiered private 5G offer emerges as telcos embrace vertical, unlicensed bands’. Click here to go to the first instalment.   Nokia has warned mobile operators to grasp the nettle of private cellular, even if they are stung...

Where are we today with CBRS and what’s next?

CBRS waiting for FCC on full commercialization and is on evolutionary path to 5G Around the world, the 3.5 GHz band has been tapped by operators as key mid-range 5G spectrum. In the U.S. that frequency, referred to as the Citizens Broadband Radio Service band,...

Top 5 benefits of shared spectrum for MNOs (Reader Forum)

It’s no secret that Mobile Operators are facing increased pressure as competition grows at the same time that data demands are going through the roof and margins are compressing. Residential and business customers have options, and operators are always exploring cost effective ways to...

Deciphering the CBRS regulatory process (Analyst Angle)

The idea that an enterprise can get easy access to use CBRS spectrum to deploy their own LTE wireless networks is an exciting one. CBRS is a business and technological puzzle, and many pieces still need to come together for this novel approach to...

CBRS PAL spectrum–Will it be cheap enough (Analyst Angle)

I attended the Connectivity Expo event earlier this month for the first time.  It was an informative gathering of infrastructure players that make up the “OPEX” side of the mobile service equation comprised of the tower, fiber, and “edge” players versus “CAPEX” side of...

Federated Wireless looking to take SAS global after US commercialization

Testing is ongoing in the United Kingdom and Federated is speaking with regulators in about 20 countries, CEO says ORLANDO--Federated Wireless, a driving force behind the pending commercialization of shared access to 150 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band,...

Why CBRS is important to the 5G future

SAS developed for CBRS speaks to dynamic spectrum management for 5G Whether you're a 5G skeptic or optimist, it will eventually happen at scale. And do that, operators need more spectrum and not just millimeter wave frequencies associated with high throughput but limited reach. Low-band...

SCTE Cable-Tec 2018: CommScope talks CBRS development, small cell concealment

CommScope's director of network engineering talks CBRS, small cell concealment ATLANTA--With the finalization of the rules for the Citizens Broadband Radio service this week, CBRS is moving ever closer to commercialization. CommScope has been gearing up to support that commercialization for a number of years now,...

Why wait for PALs? CBRS is ready to go

CBRS Alliance pushing for Q4 commercial deployments While it continues to debate rules governing priority access licenses for the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in July put out a call to authorized spectrum access system administrators to propose...

Zinwave, Federated Wireless partner to take CBRS to market

SAS and DAS come together as CBRS Alliance looks to Q4 OnGo deployments The industry is eager to put valuable spectrum in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band to work. The CBRS Alliance, an industry trade group working to advance adoption of shared...

How a railway used predictive maintenance to improve operations

Predictive maintenance improved timeliness and customer satisfaction Finnish railway operator VR Group has implemented SAS Analytics to get predictive maintenance capabilities in order to provide punctual travel service and improve customer satisfaction. The Finnish state-owned railway operator said it is key to use the data that...

Q&A with ExteNet Systems on CBRS outlook

Neutral host provider ExteNet Systems is looking to incorporate CBRS technology into its distributed network approach. Integration of spectrum support for the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service is, as currently envisioned, based on a three-tiered priority approach, which could potentially allow new entrants...