Total control over the mobile network, strong security and easy interoperability with Wi-Fi networks. That’s the promise of a private LTE/5G mobile network.
Aruba and Celona have partnered to help government agencies and other organizations simplify the adoption of private LTE/5G networks. Celona’s Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) solution for private mobile networks is built from the ground up to integrate into government and enterprise networks.
Register for our webinar, “Federal CTO Tech Talk: Spin up Private LTE/5G Networks with Celona CBRS” on August 25 at 2pm ET/11am PT with Stuart Strickland, distinguished technologist at Aruba, and Mehmet Yavuz, co-founder and CTO of Celona.
What is CBRS?
The FCC first made the CBRS band with 150 MHz of clean and segregated spectrum, available for deployment in 2019. Access to the band is managed through an automated frequency coordination system. The spectrum is freely available—there’s no regulatory licensing requirement. And no, CBRS has nothing to do with CB radio and truckers.
Building a private LTE/5G network with Celona means there’s no reliance on a mobile network operator. The mobile network is truly private: All traffic stays local, which improves security as well as application response time. In comparison to Wi-Fi, CBRS supports a far greater density of clients, more deterministic network access, and a greater range of coverage. And it integrates with existing wireless networks, with Wi-Fi providing a strong on-ramp to a private mobile network.
A New Option for Private Mobile Networks
The Celona private mobile network is a turnkey solution designed for government and enterprise use. The solution includes radio access network (RAN), a private LTE/5G core network, and an AIOps orchestration platform. The Celona RAN is fully automated and does not require any manual intervention. Celona’s CBRS LTE access points provide coverage up to 25,000 square feet indoors and 1 million square feet outdoors. Celona Edge, the private LTE/5G core, can be deployed on-premises for strict SLA enforcement for local applications or within public or private clouds for service scalability.
As an AIOps platform, Celona Orchestrator enables remote installation of Celona’s CBRS access points and Edge software across multiple sites. The Celona SIM cards are provisioned through the Orchestrator. Role-based access control policies and that application- and device-specific key performance indicators ensure that the mobile service meets mission objectives.
Federal Use Cases for Private Mobile Networks
A private LTE/5G mobile network, with the ability to support both mission-critical and administrative applications on the same infrastructure, over great distances, provides Federal agencies with a new way to tackle familiar challenges:
- Provide mobile connectivity for mission-critical applications. A private mobile network is ideal for applications that require real time, deterministic, or very low latency performance, such as autonomous vehicles, robots, and drones. Celona’s innovative microslicing technology allows applications with different quality of service levels to share the same underlying infrastructure. The appropriate service levels are applied to each micro-segment from end to end.
- Enable secure voice communications, whether inside a facility or on the road. A private mobile network can fill in cellular coverage gaps indoors. Enable secure voice and video communications and push-to-talk. And video and phone calls can continue uninterrupted between public and private mobile networks as appropriate.
- Extend broadband coverage in rural or rugged areas to support mission or field operations or to provide broadband internet to schools in rural areas where wired connectivity is impractical or impossible.
- Provide video surveillance across a wide area to make environments safer. A private mobile is ideal to support video surveillance at command posts, military bases, and in convoys. Video surveillance is also key to making cities, public transit, and ports safer. used to make transportation
To learn more about the possibilities, register for our webinar, “Federal CTO Tech Talk: Spin up Private LTE/5G Networks with Celona CBRS” on August 25 at 2pm ET/11am PT with Stuart Strickland, distinguished technologist at Aruba, and Mehmet Yavuz, co-founder and CTO of Celona.
Want to learn more now? Read the whitepaper, “CBRS, 5G and Wi-Fi: Radio Access Network Convergence in the Enterprise.”
