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Waves with Wireless Nerd
Sparking Wireless Innovation: From the End of the Affordable Connectivity Program Vouchers Opening the Door to New Wireless Projects to the Brink of a Spectrum Revolution, Insights into Private LTE, 5G Prowess, and the Wi-Fi Now World Congress Buzz
Discover a world where the end of the Affordable Connectivity Program isn't a setback, but a catalyst for innovation in wireless service. I navigate the turbulent currents of the wireless industry, from Qualcomm's latest offerings to the game-changing tech from Tarana Wireless that's set to revolutionize connectivity. As cities miss out on critical infrastructure investments, I shed light on the untapped potential of private LTE, 5G, and breakthrough solutions from Cambium Networks to close the digital divide. Plus, we'll examine how community networks could tailor local services without sole dependence on fiber.
The industry's landscape shifts as we ponder Airspan Networks' Chapter 11 filing, yet I provide reassurance that their continued operations offer a lifeline to many. We'll dissect Qualcomm's jaw-dropping advancements in IoT and their new micro-power Wi-Fi chip, exploring how this giant leap in power efficiency could reshape our wireless landscape. I'm also prepping you for the possibility of a spectrum revolution as the DoD and NTIA eye the 3.1 to 3.4 GHz band—get ready for what could be our next big connectivity breakthrough.
Finally, as the excitement builds for the Wi-Fi Now Wi-Fi World Congress, I share an exclusive inside scoop on what awaits in Sarasota, Florida, with industry powerhouses like Shisar Gupta and Dan Klimke. We'll dissect FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel's bold stance against universal service fees and its ripple effects on the USF fund and broadband's future pricing. Not to be missed is the emerging phenomenon of Network as a Service (NaaS), particularly its implications for Campus NaaS—expect insights on this burgeoning trend that promises unparalleled service levels.
And here we go. Good afternoon everybody. It's Drew Lentz, the wireless nerd. It's a five o'clock on April 9th, my daughter's birthday today. One of my wonderful daughters is having a wonderful birthday today, so very fantastic day for me. I hope everyone's having as fun of a day as I am today. I'm going to give it a couple minutes here to get started and see if we can get some viewers on so we can get some questions going back and forth.
Speaker 1:But a lot going on. You know, I started to take notes for what the show was going to be this week and as I started adding to them I was like man, there really is a lot going on. It's been an interesting seven days since the last update, but that's okay. Lots of fun things. You got invited, uh, to a, to a field day. There's a company down here called vtx1 which is a local I like and see like and wireless isp. They invited me to come out and see what they were doing with equipment from toronto wireless and blew me away. I had a really good time out there looking at this equipment, getting hands-on with it. So I have a whole feature coming about that I'm going to drop that. On friday there's a or I think, friday, maybe Monday, there's a special episode I'm doing. I want to put the finishing touches on it, but just to talk about, you know, from a relevant perspective, what's going on there. Uh, got got hands on with that and that opened up just a whole bunch of other fun things. Got to see some old friends and people I that technology is bringing to the table, especially because of everything that's going on with ACP and you know what? I think I'll start with that because I want to start and end with that, if you will.
Speaker 1:There's so much happening with ACP. You know, the Affordable Connectivity Program voucher program going away that it's going to open up opportunity for some as it closes off opportunity for others. And what I mean by that is, you know, if there's nothing that's done it doesn't look like there's. There is anything that's going to be done 25 million households approximately 25 million households in the United States are going to lose access to their ACP vouchers. Now, what that means is this was a voucher program that was put in place after or during and after COVID so that people who couldn't afford internet connectivity sustainable, reliable internet connectivity at home now had a voucher that they could apply for and receive and that would go towards their internet service bill. And all these providers got behind it and they said we'll put together special packages at $30 a month so that the voucher exactly covers the amount needed in order for them to have connectivity. So that voucher program is going away.
Speaker 1:But what was interesting is in the course of it we saw some pretty interesting things. We saw that mobile carriers and cell phone service those could qualify for that voucher because they technically could provide a broadband service if they turned it into a hotspot and used it or if they were using it on their phone, of broadband service if they turned it into a hotspot and used it or if they were using it on their phone. So we saw all these people who were using the ACP vouchers for mobile broadband service. Now, keep in mind, there was only one voucher per household, so if mom or dad got the phone, then no one at the home could use the internet access if mom and dad didn't have their phone there. So that was kind of a weird thing that was going on. But nevertheless it's going to affect that industry pretty deeply because once those vouchers go away, people are going to be asked to pay those bills.
Speaker 1:Now what we've seen is, with wireless internet service providers and other internet service providers, they've popped up and said we're going to put together special programs with special rates specifically for the people that were ACP voucher users, and we're going to work with them to try and figure out some middle ground, which is really really cool to hear. It really is a thorn in my side, though, thinking about all of the stuff that could have been done by cities and counties and municipalities and school districts and you guys have heard me just like rant and rant and rant about this where the time to spend the money and invest in the infrastructure is now past. And now we're back at square one when COVID started and people couldn't afford connectivity and there was no municipal connectivity to provide them. We're back there again, and that's that part where the opportunity for the vouchers is closed, but the opportunity to provide that connectivity at a municipality level, at a school district level, the community level, is now once again sitting in front of people saying, hey, here we are, here's an option to provide connectivity that does not have to rely on fiber.
Speaker 1:You can do this with wireless, especially with some of the things that are coming out, especially with some of the technology that's available today, and we're going to talk about that today. First, there's the stuff from Toronto that I saw. There's stuff that's out there with private LTE and private 5G that you can deploy as a service. So you don't even have to make the investments in the equipment, you can just make the investments as a service for your community. There's, you know, I had a great interview today with the team from Cambium Networks about some of the new stuff that they're bringing to the table. You've got 60 gigahertz product that can give you gigabit links at, you know, fraction of the cost of what it used to be. So now, once again, we're sitting in a spot where people can make these long-term investments to start to build up for their community networks, to build into their community, and so it's really, really exciting.
Speaker 1:That being said, today's episode is brought to you by one of those vendors, a company called Ramen Networks, and it's a company that I've become intimately familiar with over the last couple of months. Parthamishra, who I met when he was doing some stuff with a program called Rasa, a product called Rasa that later sold to HPE before the acquisition of Cape Networks, which I was on the team from. It was just a great, a great group of people getting together and making an incredible product that moved on. Well, now Partho's moved on and done all these great things, and so Raman Networks is his next step with what he's doing, and this is network as a service, private LTE as a service, private 5G as a service and you're going to learn more about that later, because after we're done doing the traditional Wave stuff, today, I'm going to show you a little video of me getting on a rooftop and working with the Ramen kit that they sent down. They sent me a network in a box. I had a really good time with it and it was so simple to use and I had a lot of fun doing it. And then you're going to hear an interview with Partha a great exclusive interview he gave me. So just a fun candy conversation about where they are. So today's episode brought to you by Ramen Network Stick around after the show. Learn all about them. Fantastic, I appreciate their support.
Speaker 1:So, jumping into waves, today we got a couple of viewers online fantastic. Let me see if I can uh, you know, uh open up my little chat window here. Yeah, I always close it and I open it and I close it and see if anybody's gonna send some chat messages. Oh, I have a little chat thing that'll appear on the screen. Uh, if anyone wants to send a chat I don't know, I don't remember how to work it, but if it pops up, maybe I'll turn it on. Anyway, I appreciate all listeners out there. If you you're new to Waves, I really, really appreciate you tuning in, got a whole bunch of downloads in the last couple of weeks, so the podcast is doing real well. It's very healthy right now and I appreciate all of the support. This is really fun to do. It keeps me on my toes with what's going on in the industry, but also gives me an opportunity to share these things I'm passionate about.
Speaker 1:So, jumping into this, the first thing that came to mind is that Airspan is filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy, and Airspan is a company that I've been following for quite a while. They've been around for quite a while. They even at one point owned Mimosa Networks, and then they slung out Mimosa Networks to Geo Networks, jio, and so they just filed for chapter 11 restructuring because they were a publicly traded company for chapter 11 restructuring because they were a publicly traded company, and now they're sucking all that back in. They've, uh, they've got the support of 97.4 of their funded uh debt creditors. How do you get to 97.4? There's like three people holding out anyway. So, uh, they went public back in the day, in 2021. They tried to. You know their, their nice symbol, their nyse symbol, was mimo, which is pretty interesting, and their debt piled up and so now they're getting back together, they're consolidating that debt, they're paying it off and they're looking to raise $95 million to continue their operations. They're not going to stop operating. They're not going to stop their day-to-day operations. But Airspan is a special interest to me because I have a friend who's using their product and that's the guys over at Infinigi, and Infinigi is using that Airspan product to deploy their neutral host CBRS system that they have out there and it's great and I don't think this is going to affect any of it. It shouldn't affect any of it, especially with them going private again. They've got some great opportunities, especially with what's going on with Infinigi. But those two in my mind, are tied together and a lot because Airspan is what the the carriers are comfortable with. So we'll see what happens. You know, maybe carriers will be more comfortable with other equipment out there which will expand the product offering of someone like affinity and some of these neutral host cbrs networks. But either way, airspan is, uh is public and they're going private. So they filed for chapter 11 doesn't mean they're going away, just means they're restructuring to come back even stronger. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Um, next up, you know, speaking of new things that are coming out, qualcomm, uh, had this really cool announcement yesterday, and then today they've expanded their portfolio with their iot solutions and have an introduction of a new micropower wi-fi chip and an updated robotics development platform. This is a qcc 730. It's supposed to reduce. Let me, let me read this. Qualcomm claims the chip can transmit data with up to 88 less power than previous generations. So you're talking a wi-fi chip set with 88 less power for their iot applications. This new level of efficiency could extend the battery life of various wi-fi connected devices. It supports wi-fi 6 standards for improved range and throughput. There's a lot of really neat things that they're doing, so, so way to go.
Speaker 1:Qualcomm, uh, instead of going bigger and bigger and bigger, they're like hey, what can we do to be an integration? Uh, oh, I just had a little, a little drop there. Whoa, reconnection was successful. Sorry about that. Something died on me there for a second.
Speaker 1:Qualcomm claims the chip can transmit with up to 88% less power than previous generations and it's got integration with Matter smart home connectivity standard. It even has ports for up to, I believe, eight cameras for camera sensors, the RB3 Gen 2 robotics platform. It's got some crazy stuff, so go look it up. Yeah, the platform supports multiple 8-megapixel-plus camera sensors for computer vision. Other features include Wi-Fi 6E, bluetooth 5.2, and LE Audio for enhanced audio quality. So if you're interested in a developmental chip, something like this, go check out this new chip from Qualcomm. Pretty cool to see them doing something with this, that RB3 Gen 2 robotics platform and their system-wide chip with the QCC730. Good job, qualcomm. Way to push this in a really cool direction. I can't wait to see what this enables, because anytime you get a chipset manufacturer, chip manufacturer, silicone manufacturer who's doing something like this, then all this cool development comes right up behind it. So it's going to be pretty neat to see. So that's going on.
Speaker 1:Um, speaking of uh, what's coming up, let's see the moonshot. There's a dod moonshot. So I was reading fierce wireless, fierce network and fierce wireless, and we're talking about the dod and the national information. The ntia, national information teleications Administration, with participation from academia and the industry, is focused on 3.1 to 3.45 gigahertz, so some new spectrum might be coming to us. This is the Emerging Mid-Band Radar Spectrum Sharing, embrss, and the Partnering on Advanced and Holistic Spectrum Solutions, or PATHS, p-a-t-h-s-s PATHS. Either way, it's a good sign.
Speaker 1:They're saying that you know they don't know how they're gonna, how they're going to do spectrum sharing with the department of defense, but they're willing to take a look at it and it's not impossible. It's like that little, the little gift. So you're saying that there's a chance. Right, dynamic spectrum sharing could be the keys to unlock 3.41 to 3.45. So they're talking about some changes to CBRS and then adding some additional spectrum in there. So I don't know, obviously, no date of when this is going to happen, but this part of Biden administration's national spectrum strategy for implementation. And so for the EMB RSS and the the embarrass EMB RSS embarrass that's interesting. There's no A in there, but that's quite a naming scheme they've got there.
Speaker 1:It's going to take 12 to 18 months to study all of this and come up with some answers, but they hope that something is going to happen. Someone here is quoted as saying we're all going to be a little bit uncomfortable with this, but it's something that they could work out. We're going to have to challenge each other. We're going to have to challenge each other. We're going to have to push each other. We're going to have to focus in a way that we have not focused before in order for the Department of Defense and the industry to work together. So that's interesting but great article by Fierce Network and Fierce Wireless Monica Alevin, alevin Alevin Good job reporting on that.
Speaker 1:That's good job reporting on that. It's pretty cool. So that was announced this morning. So exciting to hear new Spectrum. I love the whole Spectrum as a service thing and I love the whole SAS model and being able to do this. You know, any day now we're going to start using AFC 6 gigahertz soon as all that becomes available. I know Toronto's got their first license on that, but can't wait for the rest of the world to be able to experience 6 gigahertz with AFC. It'll be really cool to see. Can't wait to see what comes out of there.
Speaker 1:Let's see what else we got here. We've got the AT&T hack. That was pretty interesting information, lots of stuff going on there, 73 million pieces of information or 73 million customers. Let me go back and let me read this. It's AT&T resets passcodes after a data breach affecting 73 million people. 7.6 million current AT&T customers and 65.4 million former account holders were affected. At&t will be offering credit monitoring where applicable, but even down to PIN codes. So that's kind of interesting. So make sure you change your account numbers, your passcodes. This was a customer's full name, email address, mailing address, social security number, phone number, date of birth, at&t account number and passcode, so that four-digit or five-digit, six-digit code that you use to check your voicemail or to get into your account If you're an AT&T customer. Make sure you change that. Be ready to change that. Not a good day for AT&T there and you know we haven't talked, we haven't done a lot about talking about security and some of the things that are happening in the security aspect, but that's definitely there's always, you know, to be on the lookout for that.
Speaker 1:Speaking of things to be on the lookout for, wi-fi Now is coming up in beautiful Sarasota, florida. Let me type something in here. So the Wi-Fi Now was it. The Wi-Fi World Conference, world Congress in 24 is coming up Sarasota, april 22nd through 24th. I have plans to be there. I hope to see everybody there. I think it's going to beth. I have plans to be there. I hope to see everybody there. I think it's going to be fantastic. I'm going to try and jump out there and have a good time with everyone. So thanks again, klaus, for that invite.
Speaker 1:I did mention my promo code in the last podcast. I don't know how many people took advantage of it. I do need to catch up with Klaus. There might be some left, and if you're looking to go to Wi-Fi World Congress, let me see if I can find my promo code real quick here again and you want to save 50% off your ticket, then I have a code for you. Let me see if I can get this right here. Drew's magical code is somewhere in here. There we go, you ready, here we go. Capital W, capital W, capital C, capital S as in Sarasota, capital D for Drew50. Wwc Sarasota, drew50. Wwc Sarasota, drew50. We'll get you 50% off of your tickets at the Wi-Fi Now Wi-Fi World Congress in Sarasota. So go use the code. I know a couple people have taken advantage of it. Very cool, happy that we could pass that on to you. Hope everyone takes advantage of it and then maybe Klaus will give you some more codes, but try and make plans to get out there.
Speaker 1:If Wi-Fi is your thing, you are going to be in good company. There's going to be a lot of people there. Now, this one is always a little bit different, right? You've got WLPC, which is like roll Roll up your sleeves and get down and dirty and hang out with the nerds and do nerd stuff. And then you've got the Wi-Fi Now Wi-Fi World Congress, which is, I would say, more collared shirts than it is T-shirts, but it's a lot of people who are making things happen in the industry. It's a great group of people that are there. No-transcript. Shisar Gupta, the Senior Director of Product Management from Qualcomm, will be there. So if you're interested in that new chip, he's definitely somebody to talk to. Dan Klimke from NetAlly, one of our proud sponsors here at Waves, will be there. Iran Dor, vp of product from Pavlov media, will be there. You can ask him all about what they're doing with their acquisition of net experience, which got a whole bunch of clicks on my LinkedIn when I mentioned that. So those guys will be out there and let's see what else we got from the FCC.
Speaker 1:The FCC chair, miss Jessica Rosenworcel rejected calls to impose universal service fees on broadband. Interesting interesting thing here, because you would think that in my simple mind, if you start charging, if you add USF to broadband fees, then that's just going to create a bigger bank account for USF to do more good with USF. But she's turning around saying we don't want to knock the system. It's already working well the way that it is right now. We don't want to increase broadband fees any more than that they already are. It's an $8 billion a year fund that the USF has. It funds programs such as lifeline discounts, rural digital opportunity funds, the RDOF for ISPs and any of these phone companies are paying a percentage of their revenue into the fund. Telco has generally passed those fees on to customers with the US Universal Service Line on their telephone bills, so they don't want to do that. The chair fears that there would be major upheaval of this if it takes place.
Speaker 1:So interesting, I don't really know how I feel about that. Don't have an opinion either way, but I do want to look into it a little bit more. I'm curious what you think. Is that a good thing or is a bad thing Adding broadband to USF? I mean, it seems like it would add a whole bunch more money to USF. But then again, do you want the government to have a whole bunch more money? Because have they proven that they're good with spending the money? I don't know. That's an answer that we can talk about at Wi-Fi. Now I'm sure Klaus has a great opinion on that. Klaus has lots of great opinions. Klaus has lots of opinions period. So I love to get in a corner with him. It's a lot of fun. So that's interesting. Not adding to USF with broadband, so we'll see where that goes. Now that's right on the heels of the net neutrality stuff. Trying to put net neutrality back in and say, hey, you can't limit speeds, you can't limit access, so on and so forth. So interesting to see what goes on there. The FCC's really got their work cut out for them.
Speaker 1:Now, moving on, del Oro says that Network as a Service and Campus Network as a Service, specifically CNAAS these providers have emerged and they're expected to deliver a significant percentage of growth and innovation. Sian Morgan, the Del Oro researcher, says that these CNAS provider revenues for companies such as Meter, join, digital, nile and others may not be big just yet, but this is a high growth segment and there's a lot of potential. Their CNAS business models stand out because they're based on delivering specific outcomes to clients. That means this is also implicitly about delivering a guaranteed level of service. So this is the whole network as a service model.
Speaker 1:Hey, you don't pay for necessarily for the equipment. You don't tell us what equipment to put in or what switches or any of that. You just tell us what you want your users to do and we'll sign an agreement saying that this is their SLA, this is what they get, and we'll just make sure that it all works on the back end and your customers are happy. Now, this is the mantra that Meader's speaking. This is what Niall is out there saying is this should turn into something just as simple as water and electricity. When you move into a building, your internet should be the exact same thing, whether it's wired or whether it's wireless, whether it's fiber, whatever it is. So Del Oro is recognizing this, saying that this is set to deliver over $600 million of revenue by 2027 and much more in contract value. This forecast has been raised in the current Delaware report.
Speaker 1:Now I don't know how that compares to Gartner. I don't have a login to Gartner, so if someone has one, please let me know. Or if someone from Gartner is listening, please feel free to chime in. I don't know how this is comparing across all the other analyst groups, but it was definitely interesting to see this pop up because it's giving life to some of this, not that they needed it. I mean, nylon Meter are doing a pretty good job of themselves. Meter is actually cranking up a lot on their advertising campaign. Been seeing a lot more coming across the feed in there, so they're creating the groundswell, which is really nice to see. But it's neat to see a whole kind of like a new segment of technology coming up. So this is an interesting way to do that.
Speaker 1:Now, before I jump over to a fun little video. I think that's all the what's new, what's now and what's next that I have going on, except I do want to end with this. I'm dumping my girlfriend because she hates Wi-Fi. So over at kidspotcomau there's a story about someone who's asking the AITA am I the annoying person? Am I the person because I'm dumping my girlfriend because she hates my Wi-Fi? But a month after she told me she was electromagnetic hypersensitive, she wants me to get rid of my router and so he's going to dump his girlfriend. I thought that was an interesting story to end with. I hope their relationship works out well. We'll see where it goes, mark says.
Speaker 1:Watching from up here in Dallas post eclipse, the eclipse was pretty cool, didn't notice. Didn't notice any change in in the number of bars that I had on my cell phone. There were no big. There were no big projections or anything, but the eclipse is pretty cool. Down here in South Texas we saw about 99%, 98%, 99% coverage on it. So it was pretty neat. Even with the sun hiding behind the clouds, it still popped its little pretty eclipse out on us. So anyway, all right. Well, that's what I got today for the 9th of April, april 9th 2024. And what I'm going to do now? If you're listening on the podcast, I'm going to try and trim this out for you, but if you're watching on the video, check this out.
Speaker 1:I had the opportunity to work with today's sponsor of the program, which is R, which is ramen wireless. I talked to them about their product and they ensured me that it was one of the most simple things I've ever done. And instead of just talking about this, they sent me a kit and I took the kit and I set it down to my kitchen counter and I unboxed it to make sure everything was there and I was like this is pretty cool and I plugged it in and it worked here at the house and it was very, very simple to use eSIMs. Let me just say the eSIMs are the future of all of this. First of all, esims are incredible and this is not news to anyone who's used it, but it's as simple as scanning a QR code on your phone and adding that eSIM and adding that extra service, and so that's what I did. But instead of doing it in my house, I went to our local convention center who hosts a number of events outdoors and you'll see some video here in a second and their big pain in the side is point of sale systems. So getting connectivity for point of sale systems for vendors that are out there when they have tens of thousands of people in their area is a little bit difficult, especially when the traditional carrier markets get saturated and there's not enough Wi-Fi to cover the whole area.
Speaker 1:Outside by this lake they had this huge band called Grupo Frontera, who's just from 10 minutes north of where I live right now. They did a free concert there and it was awesome and 7,000 people showed up and all of the infrastructure just went, eh. And so they're trying to figure out ways to solve that problem. And so the convention center director said, hey, what do you got? And I said, check this out. So I got up on the roof and so I'm going to show you now, uh, what that looked like. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to cue this thing up and we'll see. We'll see how this video goes. It was a lot of fun. Check this out.
Speaker 1:I might as well show you what I'm doing up here. So I've got one of the Ramen Outdoor E-Node Vs sitting right behind me it's pretty bright out here and I've got just a temporary Ethernet cable running down into this box and in this box. Check it out. I've got some equipment in here. Pardon the ugliness, but all I'm doing is I've got a T-Mobile 5G unit which is plugged into a dual WAN router which is plugged into a PoE switch providing PoE up through there. So I'm backhauling it with T-Mobile 5G providing access to this whole beautiful oval park in front of us over there, and I'll go back to T-Mobile. Yeah, and all going back to T-Mobile.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, so I'm out here at the McGowan Convention Center and I'm testing out a 4G private LTE solution from Ramen Networks. Now I've got a radio that's mounted on the corner of this building. Right over there it's a Embassy Suites hotel. They were kind enough to let me jump up on their rooftop on this beautiful South Texas day and I went ahead and I tested it. I got a whole bunch of different marks here all around this lake. I'm going to plot those out. You'll see here where I've been, you'll see where I did these tests and it's working so much better than I expected. Private LTE is really cool. I'm using CVRS Spectrum 3500, somewhere around there, using SAS to assign my frequency and my address, but everything seems to be working great.
Speaker 1:The beauty of this is that, with a network as a service, like Raman offers, I don't have to worry about purchasing hardware. I don't have to worry about purchasing software. I just say this is what I want, when I want it, how I need it, and everything works the way that it's supposed to. The backend to it is incredible. So the web browser-based interface, being able to add eSIMs, being able to remove or shut down devices, being able to provision devices see what's going on with the radio. All of that's done via cloud dashboard by the Raman Network. I added my cell phone, this iPhone that I'm recording this on. I added this. I added an eSIM to it as a quick scan of a QR code. I was online with about 40 seconds to go. I could see that was provisioned on the backend dashboard and that was it, man. Then I just walked around the park, I made couple facetime calls, I showed it off to the director here and the chief of operations and wowed them with the capabilities.
Speaker 1:So overall it's been a pretty awesome day out here in the sun enjoying this private lte by ramen very cool, it's right up there I'll take some zoomed in pictures over there but enjoying some awesome wireless equipment. Well, that's it, man. The equipment is down. I'm ready to go. It's like I don't even know how hot it is today, but it's pretty hot. Standing up here on this rooftop you can see behind me that beautiful lake, that beautiful view of the McAllen Convention Center such a great site. Glad to be able to test this out. Hopefully this proves some solution. I definitely got a full day's work of working with Private 5G and networking service very cool. Shout out to Ramen Network. Thanks for the gear. This has been such a fun day. Appreciate it. I'll be posting some of the results online, so stay tuned. See ya, I feel like a Fremen Trying to find a seat these roofs, oh my god.
Speaker 1:Well, that was awesome, man. I think the video worked the way that it was supposed to, so that's even cooler. That was a lot of fun. Uh, you know that's what you send me something you never know. You never know when I'm going to end up using it. That one was using t-mobile as a backhaul and a special shout out to the team over at hamina uh, using their software to do a quick plot, understanding what that cbrs uh spectrum was going to look like and where my coverage was going to look like, and I got to say it was for not adding any buildings or obstructions and just adding the down tilt. In Hamina it did an incredible job of almost like, directly, accurately, like perfectly accurately where I had certain levels of coverage. So if you're looking for a tool to do your design for CBRS, definitely look at the Hamina tool. What an incredible tool, all web-based. So that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:The guys at Ramen, thanks again to the team for shipping that out. Thanks again for sponsoring the episode. We're going to have a lot of fun At the end of this month. I'm going to go to a couple of different cities down here in rural South Texas and I'm going to take this to some of these markets that have been affected by the removal of the ACP voucher. I'm going to be working with a partner called Computer Solutions. They're an integrator based out of San Antonio, texas. We're going to go hit some of these stops and we're going to go to Carrizo Springs, eagle Pass, dilley some of these spots that no one usually goes to. We're going to go show them what the power of private LTE and private 5G can do for their communities and for their municipalities. So once again, shout out to Ramen Network sponsoring the episode, and with that I'm going to drop in this interview now.
Speaker 1:So this is an interview with the CEO of Ramen talking about what he's doing, why he's doing it. If you haven't seen one of my interviews before, please stick around for a second and check it out, because it's not your typical interview. It's just like this. I'm not saying you're asking hard-hitting questions. I mean, some of them might be, but it's more fun. It's more about you all getting to know the people that I know. That's what I'm trying to do. I want you to feel like you know who they are. Reach out to them if you need to. If you want to contact me, I'll put you in touch with them. Anyone that's a friend of mine I have no problem introducing, and so once they do an interview with me, I guess
