Network design company iBwave Solutions has introduced new software to help US enterprises dovetail their local-area private Wi-Fi and LTE/5G designs in a single platform. The solution is geared for new private LTE/5G installations in CBRS spectrum in the US, to complement legacy enterprise...
Note, for more on this topic, and more on Schneider Electric's private 5G story, catch Zach Nimboorkar on the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on April 28 on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard). He is joined by speakers from ABI Research, MFA...
Celona said that the proceeds will be used to accelerate the firm’s worldwide expansion, channel growth and R&D efforts
California-based Celona announced that it has closed a $60 million Series C financing round led by DigitalBridge Ventures, the venture capital initiative of DigitalBridge Group.
The financing...
DigitalBridge has agreed to acquire Belgian mobile infrastructure from Telenet, paying about $820 million in cash.
DigitalBridge will acquire 100% of Telenet's passive infrastructure and towers, which includes the company's footprint of 3,322 sites across Belgium. The deal also includes a long-term master lease...
The total number of private LTE and 5G networks will increase to 13,500 installations globally by 2026, according to analyst group Berg Insight; this is a 10-fold increase, roughly, from a figure today of “more than” 1,000 private LTE deployments and 200–300 private 5G...
Verizon Business said that the strategic partnership will focus on leveraging its On Site LTE and 5G network with Celona’s 5G LAN products
Verizon Business announced a new turnkey private networking solution with Celona, with the aim of accelerating the use of private 5G to...
FWA, MEC, and private networks are key to Verizon 5G monetization plan
As discussions among operators turn to monetizing massive investments in 5G networks, Verizon today held an investor event that laid out in detail how it sees its network creating new service revenue in...
Business solutions provider NTT is working with US software firm ServiceNow to introduce an “AI-enabled end-to-end workflow automation platform” to its private 5G proposition. The idea is enterprises will be able to migrate business processes onto the cloud using ServiceNow’s cloud platform, which incorporates...
The GSM Association (GSMA) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) are to collaborate more deeply on industrial 5G for smart manufacturing. The pair have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly “promote and advance a shared understanding” of industrial...
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...
California private networks startup Celona has said it has proposed new geofencing specifications for 4G (LTE) and 5G to the OnGo Alliance, formerly the CBRS Alliance, representing the supply-side ecosystem for private cellular in the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band in the US. It said...
Recent FCC rules establishing the commercial use of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum within the 3.55 to 3.7GHz range (band 48) is driving enterprise interest in the use of cellular technology to enable connectivity for many digital initiatives that demand predictable performance,...
Private networking company Celona has announced it has deployed a private LTE network in the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band in the US on the grounds at California State University, Stanislaus. It said the deployment is the first “campus-wide” deployment of private LTE in CBRS...
Private LTE provider Celona has announced a hat-trick of private network projects. The Cupertino firm is working with Joint Venture Silicon Valley (JVSV), a local enterprise forum in Silicon Valley, to bring CBRS-based private LTE to the Campbell Union Elementary School District in the...
California-based private LTE/5G startup Celona is the first company to implement the O-RAN Alliance’s specifications for open radio access network (open RAN) software in private 5G enterprise networks, it has said. Celona said its O-RAN-compliant capabilities, newly certified, confirm its so-called ‘edgeless’ 5G architecture...
More detail has emerged about NTT’s new private cellular as-a-service platform, launched last week for enterprises to deploy private LTE and 5G networks anywhere in the world. The firm has confirmed California-based private LTE/5G startup and CBRS champ Celona is providing the key LTE/5G...
California-based startup Celona has announced support for software-based embedded SIM (eSIM) technology to simplify device provisioning for private LTE and 5G networks. The firm has also announced it has joined Qualcomm’s smart cities accelerator ecosystem as an approved supplier of cloud-based private network management.
Celona...
Qualcomm Ventures has announced new investments in four companies to help advance innovation and accelerate 5G adoption within the ecosystem.
The investments were made through Qualcomm Ventures’ 5G Ecosystem Fund.
The companies include Celona, an enterprise networking platform provider that brings 5G to enterprises; Cellwize Wireless...
In its first seven months of full commercial deployment, most of the use of the shared Citizens Broadband Radio Service is being driven by two predictable use cases: Network capacity augmentation and fixed wireless broadband access, both on the networks of existing cellular operators...
California-based private LTE/5G startup and CBRS champ Celona has announced eight test deployments of its wireless networking solution using CBRS spectrum, along with new partnerships for CBRS-based networks with edge networking firm Cradlepoint and supply-chain tech provider World Wide Technology (WWT).
Celona, which closed $10...
