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Waves with Wireless Nerd
Cutting-Edge Wireless: 5G RedCap Solutions, Private Networks @ MWCA, ngFWA, Wispapalooza & More!
What if you could revolutionize your wireless network with cutting-edge technology? Join me, Drew Lentz, the Wireless Nerd, as I unpack the synergy between NetAlly and Hamina tools, which are changing the game in site surveys and data validation. We'll journey through major industry events like Mobile World Congress America, Wispapalooza, and WLPC Prague, where private cellular networks and 5G innovations from giants like Ubiquiti and Cambium are making waves - but it's Tarana that is stealing the spotlight! Plus, hear about the critical themes of indoor cellular and satellite networking from MWCA.
Discover how the latest 5G breakthroughs are reshaping the world, starting with RedCap, the affordable and low throughput 5G standard now powering IoT and asset tracking, unless you're AT7T. Why the love for 4G? You'll hear about Dito Telecommunity's pioneering move in the Philippines with Huawei, launching the world's first 5G RedCap-powered home Wi-Fi service, Dito Home WowFi. Stay informed about Tarana's announcement of their next-gen fixed wireless access technology, the RNv, which promises to bridge digital gaps through efficient and cost-effective solutions - 800 Mbps per end-point for $399?!
We'll also explore the advancements brought by 5G Advanced, featuring enhanced massive MIMO, coordinated multipoint technology, and the role of AI in optimizing network connections. T-Mobile's plans to leverage these innovations highlight the potential for superior user experiences, especially in video consumption. Finally, don't miss the exciting updates in the wireless space, including Cambium Networks' new MLO product and tech talks, and a competitive landscape that keeps us all on our toes. While I won't be at WLPC Prague, I encourage those attending to share their insights, keeping our community thriving with the latest wireless technology enthusiasm.
Hi everybody. How's it going? Drew Lenz, the Wireless Nerd, today is October 16th 2024. It's a wonderful, wonderful Wednesday. I think it's Wednesday. I'm pretty sure it's Wednesday. I think tomorrow's Thursday that's okay. What a fun morning. You know, the guys from Hamina and NetAlly just did a little banter session. It was really fun to see.
Speaker 1:It's been a fun week for that specific tool set, for those two tool sets. I got to get hands-on with it and try it out using the NetAlly, using my Cyberscope and going and doing a site survey using AirMapper on the Cyberscope to collect data, walking around and grabbing data using that tool set and then saving it and uploading it to Link Live and then using Link Live to look at it and validate what I saw, make sure it looked okay, and then jumping over into Hamina and filling out my credentials, creating a new project and importing that data directly. And so now I can use both tools. And to me I mentioned this last week and I did a little special on it Such a cool place for the industry to be. And I got to compare a couple of tools together by doing that because I thought, well, you know what, if I'm going to do it with the Cyberscope I might as well try it with the Nomad and I've got the Echo Hound. I've got the C-DOS also, so I'm going to be cranking out some comparative information on with them. So it's a busy week this week and next week.
Speaker 1:There's a lot going on and hopefully there's a lot of really cool announcements that are coming out. We've got Mobile World Congress America, covering all the 4G, 5g, 5ga, 6g stuff and a big emphasis on private cellular. I've been reading a lot about that so I'll talk about that here in a second. We've got Wispapalooza, which is so near and dear to my heart. I love that. I mean, what a great show and some really cool announcements coming out from Ubiquity there and coming out from Tarana and coming out from Cambium. So some great things that are happening at Wispapalooza. And then obviously we've got WLPC Prague coming up next week. So We've got WLPC Prague coming up next week. So there's a lot happening in the industry right now.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be catching up with some of the people who are attending these events. I couldn't make it to any of them this go-round, but I think next week we're going to be catching up on what was happening at Wispapalooza. We'll get a full rundown there. We'll probably reach out to someone who's at Mobile World Congress and then, obviously, whatever's happening at at WLPC, there's going to be some really, really cool stuff. If you're in Europe, if you are anywhere near Prague, make every effort to get to WLPC out there, because not only are the sessions going to be top-notch and the people are going to be top-notch, but everybody is talking about the tools that they're going to bring and that's really cool. So you're going to see a lot of hands-on stuff, a lot of people playing with some toys and showing them off, just seeing what the tools can do and sharing that love with the crowd. So a couple of things to go over this week.
Speaker 1:Like I mentioned, I don't even know where to start there was an article that was posted this morning. I'm going to go look it up real quick just in case I don't want to mess it up. But there was an article that was posted this morning and it was talking about private cellular at Mobile World Congress, and obviously we've talked a lot about private cellular on here. We've talked about neutral host networks on here. We've talked a lot about things like that, and there was an article that was posted where it was saying that that was all the rage at Mobile World Congress this year and it was a blog and it was posted by the 650 group. Chris Dupuy posted something and I flipped through it. I read it and I was like all right, I love a good blog every once in a while and I haven't seen a lot. No blogs about Wispapalooza, very few blogs about Mobile World Congress. So that just tells me that there's still room out there for people who aren't getting the word out about doing stuff. So I'd love to read more, especially sitting at home. I'd love to figure out what's going on, and you can only do that through sporadic tweets and what. So there's a need for good content producers at these shows. Don't ever think that content production number one is easier than it's being done. I think people have fallen into this idea that all the content production is being done, so maybe they don't have to do it, but what you end up with is just a smattering of tweets and images and companies are trying to promote themselves, but nobody actually talking about the event and what the theme of the event is and what's going on. So kudos to Chris Dupuy from 650 Group.
Speaker 1:He says Mobile World Congress, las Vegas. Themes indoor cellular, satellite and data center. Usually, telcom and Wireless RAN are the main topics at Mobile World Congress Vegas, but this year's show, what caught our eye, was indoor cellular satellite and data center networking. And he goes on to talk about DAS, small cell, about meeting with JMA, about meeting with Comscope, with Mosa Labs, druid Pente and even Wilson. This was interesting.
Speaker 1:I think I brought this up here. Let me see if I can share my screen. Let's see if my screen share is working and my audio is working on the screen share. Very good, it looks like it is doing what it's supposed to do. Even Wilson Electronics is now rebranding as Wilson Connectivity. These are the people that make those Wilson Electronics, that make the little in-building repeaters. Now they're saying Wilson Connectivity makes Wilson Pro, we boost the Zenwave lines. But now they're talking about the private 5G market and their push into the private 5G market. So something as simple as a rebranding there. But to see Wilson moving in that direction pretty interesting.
Speaker 1:I mean, there's a lot happening in that space to try and get the signals from the outside to the inside. And I just gave a presentation. I was given a Signal Room presentation and talking about what it does and how it leverages existing Wi-Fi infrastructure compared to DAS, compared to BDAs or compared to stuff like Wilson, and if you've never used one of these cell phone amplifier things. Basically the way that I explain it is if you've got a bad signal outside and you want a better signal inside, you're going to take this antenna system and amplifier that's going to take that bad signal and just rebroadcast the bad signal better inside at the lowest modulation rate possible, and then people wonder why it doesn't work. So a lot happening in that space where there's been people trying to fix it for years, but we're finally starting to see how that's moving away from the expense of DAS, because DAS is so expensive, man, it's just like so utterly expensive that there's got to be a better way to do it.
Speaker 1:So that seems like that was the theme, especially now that there's viable candidates for CBRS and for private cellular in the space. Jma is doing some great stuff, salona is doing some great stuff and, as you know, a couple of weeks ago even Meter, an enterprise networking company, decided to jump in on that space, not for private cellular yet, but for neutral host. So I'm looking at this and I asked online. I said I wonder what the feeling is between these incumbent cell people, private cellular and cellular network people, and now seeing this person, this interloper, if you will, coming from the enterprise space, going yeah, yeah, we're going to add that in there too. I'm'm curious to see how that plays out, because to me that's such a big deal. Man. And and I wonder if anyone was even talking about it mobile world congress I I wonder if it's even on the radar of anybody. That was there going wow, enterprise, this enterprise company, is trying to make this huge splash, just announced that. Oh yeah, we, yeah, we can do that also. So kudos to the team at Meter for doing that. Like I said, I don't know if anyone was there to talk about that, but if they were, that's pretty awesome. So they were talking about.
Speaker 1:His article talks about that, and it talks about not necessarily about Meter, but about what's going on in the space. I just lost it. I had it open here somewhere, but what's going on in that space? And I think that that's fascinating. You know JMA. Jma is such a cool company. They do a lot of really neat stuff, but to know that they're doing more. You know the satellite stuff and all that. I'll follow that later, but this is where my interest is right. Here A newish DAS company to the scene, rebranded itself as Wilson Connectivity.
Speaker 1:An established DAS player, adrf, was also present at the show. We left the show confident that DAS has a stronghold on the indoor cellular market for now. He doesn't say for now, but I think it's for now, with small cells taking away at a growing number of opportunities for enterprise-oriented cellular systems. Bro Chris, do me a favor. Mr Chris Dupuy, dude, go check out what Meter's doing with CBRS. Go take a look at that, because I think if you see what they're doing and you see how enterprise wants to use this, I think that that might make a pretty big difference for you. I'm just saying I'm no analyst, but I see that the other thing that's happening that's getting some press and AT&T has, you know, start talking about Dan Jones. I don't know that I've ever met Dan Jones, but Dan Jones, I'd love to meet you because you write some great articles, man. You cover some really good stuff. There's no substitute for good journalism and I appreciate what you do.
Speaker 1:So AT&T votes for LTE-M to track ballot boxes. Okay, so this is. If you look on here, this is this phrase that you might see. It's called REDCap. Redcap is not Red Hat, it's not Red Box, it's REDCap. Redcap is reduced capacity.
Speaker 1:Now this is a big deal for 5G getting into the IoT space, talking specifically about slicing and the way that you can slice up these channels and slice up the delivery service delivery so that you can have low bandwidth applications or low bandwidth sensors or use cases and you can use those on the same network that you have high consuming devices. And so AT&T votes for LTE-M and this is what got my attention to track ballot boxes. So imagine that you're using smart labels or smart stickers or IoT sensors that are leveraging the existing national footprint, the national network. So now you don't have to set up LoRa, you don't have to set up LoRaWAN, you can use this at national level for a very discounted rate. At&t is talking about using LTE-M or LTE machine is that type right there, as well as other 4G technologies and low or reduced capacity. So REDCap 5G IoT devices and they say there's a quote in here by Mr Cameron Kersey who says US ballot boxes will use the technology because it offers chain of custody and location tracking Fascinating stuff.
Speaker 1:I can already hear the protests going on about tracking and this and that and whatever, but I'm not interested in that. I'm not interested in the political component of it. What I'm interested in is the use case of the technology and what they're doing with it. So asset tracking, low-cost asset tracking, coming using network slicing he's talking about using this, these first-generation smart labels, and you're looking at $30 to $40. And in quantity, you can get a lower cost. So that's pretty awesome. 5g's 1 meg data speeds and low latency are unnecessary, it says. Moreover, 5g IoT is not available yet. That's okay. They're looking at LTE-M instead of using the 5G slicing, but as that comes about, it's going to be pretty neat, which takes me to another page.
Speaker 1:Our buddies over at RCR Wireless News. Mr James Blackman had this to say about ONCE. Now, if you don't know who ONCE is, I learned about ONCE when I was at CES I believe it was CES and yeah, it was CES and they had this little booth hiding in the corner and they were talking about what they do with IoT. And if you look at what this says, the ONCE claims record year adds 8 million IoT devices and sales past 30 million devices connected, outrunning the 2023 total, with 8 million new cellular IoT connections in the first three quarters. What ONCE does is they sell this and maybe someone from ONCE wants to correct me if I totally messed this up but basically you sign up for service with them for IoT connected devices. You say, hey, I have this.
Speaker 1:We have a Haiku box as a perfect example. I have a box called a Haiku box sitting on my back porch and what it does is it has a microphone and it listens for birds and it takes those bird sounds and it automatically telegraphs them up to a server so that it turns around and it tells me what type of bird is making that noise in real time in my backyard. It's very cool. Check out haiku boxcom if that's of interest to you. But what's of interest to me is the connectivity component of it, because right now it has to connect to my Wi Fi network and I want a better way for my haiku box to work.
Speaker 1:So I would go to someone like once and say, hey, I need a SIM card that works across the world, either on LTE-M or on a 5G slice or whatever it is, and once supplies that and they do it very cost effectively. I don't remember the numbers so I'm not going to make it up, but what I am going to do is I'm going to type it in and see if it tells me what those data plans look like for them. Iot SIM plans are pricing Once it's spelled, the number one in CE. So if you're listening on the podcast, it's the number one in CE $10 for 10 years, lifetime subscription, global coverage and unlimited software access, 500 meg and 250 SMS included. That's what I mean by inexpensive 10 bucks for 10 years on a flat fee. They do some really neat stuff and it's obviously resonating with people if they're able to hit the numbers. So go check out once if you have any IoT projects coming up. Haikubox definitely could leverage something like this. However, I don't know what the data load looks like coming off of there. So there's that. That's fascinating, but it could be a really cool strategy for them.
Speaker 1:So redcap is making its entrance. At&t is talking about 5g iot and with redcap, these are ways to track things. It's it's, you know, low cost, low throughput, and dido I think it's called dido and huawei announced the wowfi service powered by 5g RedCap. So the Philippines operator let's see where is it? Dido announced this is from Telcom Paper that I don't have an account for, so I'm not gonna be able to read it. So telcompapercom has an article that you have to register for and it talks about Dido and Huawei launching WowFi.
Speaker 1:Let me see if I can do some quick sleuthing around the internet and see if I can do some quick sleuthing around the internet and see if I can find another. There we go. Dido launches new Dido Home WowFi the world's first 5G red cap Wi-Fi for home. So not only are they using red cap for IoT devices, but I'm wondering what this is going to look like. So I'm going to read this in real time. Let me put it up on the screen here so you can see what I'm looking at. Daito Telecommunity, whoa, the fastest growing telco provider in the country, introduces Daito Home Wi-Fi, the first 5G red cap technology Wi-Fi in the world for home usage, powered by a true 5G network, in partnership with Huawei, one of the global leaders in 5G. Blah blah blah using 5G REDCap. So I don't know where the line is with REDCap.
Speaker 1:If 100 megabit is in the REDCap component, then that's interesting. Let's look it up. Redcap 5G limit I wonder what it? 20 megahertz. 5g REDCap devices have maximum bandwidth of 20 megahertz. God, I love where AI is today and downlink of 150 and uplink of 50. So that's crazy. That's so, so crazy to me, because if you think back in the internet wars and in the us, you know it's like 150 megabit. Oh my god, what you can do with 150 megabit per second. It's still I mean, even to this day, that's still such a trip to me. It's such a tremendous amount of capacity when fully utilized, you can do so much with it. So think that that falls under REDCap is kind of interesting. So back to what they're doing over in the Philippines.
Speaker 1:So Evelyn Jimenez, daito Chief Revenue Officer, claims that Daito's new home Wi-Fi is changing the norm and disrupting the market. So if you think about it, if you're using RedCap a new 5G standard critical evolution called 5G and R and R Lite, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Here's the article. You can read it for yourself. If you think about that, that's leveraging that network to milk every bit of capacity out of it, not just for IoT, but now for low speed. He says 150 megabit per second. Wow, what a world, what a time that we live in, that that is considered reduced capacity. I love it and kudos to them for making that happen. Hopefully other carriers around the world can do something similar. You know where they're trying to get that amount of capacity or something you know, at least some type of connectivity into the hands of people that need it the most.
Speaker 1:Now that brings me to another point and something that I want to talk about Tarana. Oh my God man, this is so cool. Tarana made an announcement yesterday. Last night they had a whole press thing and a whole presentation deal where they are introducing their new subscriber module, subscriber unit, customer unit, remote unit, whatever you want to call it. In the industry they refer to them specifically as the RN, so the remote node. They've got their BN and their RN. So the RNV was announced yesterday and this is their next generation fixed wireless access. And it says on the screen now more affordable than ever BN and their RN. So the RNV was announced yesterday and this is their next generation fixed wireless access and it says on the screen now more affordable than ever. And this blew me away to think about. Because what they have is they have a new device that is, you know, it's about twice, maybe three times, as wide as their existing device that they have, but it's half the cost. It doesn't.
Speaker 1:You can see the specs down here, let me see. I'll read off the specs for anyone that's listening and not watching. But the specs are nuts. Five and six gigahertz works with their existing base nodes. You don't have to go and swap equipment on the tower in order for this to work. Works on five gig and six gig. Aggregate throughput using bonding is 800 megabit per second and y'all. I can't even emphasize enough that when they put a number out there, that's a number that you're really close to getting.
Speaker 1:I got to see Tarana in the field when they did a Seeing is Believing event down here in South Texas. I got invited out and I went to go look at it and it blew me away. I did a whole spiel about it because it was just incredible. And now to know that they're introducing this at 800 megabit per second, up to 30K range. It works. It's not a non-line of sight product, but it's a near line of sight and line of sight product. So you've got to be able to more or less see the tower. It's got active and passive interference cancellation. It's targeted for Q125. It works on both 5 and 6 gig, as I said, but the killer here is it's $399. And to me that's so insane. You're talking about a device that does 800 megabit per second symmetrical I believe and it's $399.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you remember Motorola Canopy or the early days of Ubiquiti, but when we were first deploying those they were like 400 bucks a unit, man, 500 bucks, 600 bucks a unit for maybe 10 or Canopy Advanced or whatever Advantage. It was like 20 megabit per second. It was 600 bucks for an end user. Then the price eventually came down and this is where Ubiquiti really really came into the marketplace. Hard and heavy is. They had a device came in $179. Then they had one that came in at $99. Then they had one that came in at $60. All the competitors were charging hundreds of dollars. What Tarana just did is they took a device they went from and I had to look it up real quick and this isn't any proprietary information.
Speaker 1:If you just go check ISP Supplies, one of my absolute favorite websites, to purchase any equipment, if you operate a wireless ISP or an ISP or a FISP or whatever it is, please talk to my buddies over at ISP Supplies. They are very cool and they are nice. So is everybody else in the industry. Don't get me wrong, but I had their webpage open. So go talk to Wave. Go talk to you know who else is out there. I mean there's so many great people. Go talk to Conitronics. But ISP Supplies these guys are open on my browser right now $21,500 for their base station and for their individual units, between $1,100 for the 6GB if purchased in a 5-pack I'm sorry, that's a 5-pack bundle.
Speaker 1:So I mean these things are, you know, these are pricey devices. If you look at it Down here, like here's a hybrid one for 1062. Man, you know, when you purchase them in pairs, obviously it saves money. But now what these guys are introducing here at $400 in volume for this is just, it's like I don't want to say it's unheard of, but it's. I mean, it's so much speed and this has been the biggest thing and it was great to hear the CEO talk about it when he was on stage. He's like, yeah, we know our technology is great and everything's fantastic, but we hear you, our price is a little high. So now they have not only introduced the ability to have a subscriber unit that does 800 meg per second, but they've done it at a much lower cost. So kudos to the team over at Tarana for making that happen. It has a whole lot of other really cool benefits.
Speaker 1:And then they started to talk about. So one of the things and I don't think it's on this slide, for example, there's my notes. It's not on this slide, but one of the really neat things that he did hang on, give me a second here is there's a slide somewhere in the presentation and it talked about the way that they aggregate bandwidth and this was it right here. So check this out. So one of the things that makes Toronto a little bit different is that they can use discontinuous 40 megahertz channels, 40 megahertz carriers across all of the spectrum, so they don't have to be contiguous. They can be some from 5 gig, some from 6 gig and then obviously they make a 365 product. So everyone wants to know when that triple band product that 365, 5 and 6 gig are going to come out so you can aggregate those channels together to get even more.
Speaker 1:And one of the things that was really neat was to see this I really like this slide a lot because it shows that because they're not side by side, because they're not contiguous, if you pull them across they have a. 76% of their markets are able to support a 160 megahertz operation because they don't have to pull it from the same slice of spectrum, they can pull it from multiple ones and to me that's so neat. That's in a rural area and then suburban. It goes up to 89%. In an urban area it's 96% of their operators can do 160 megawatt channels, which translates to huge amounts of throughput. So that was such a cool part of their presentation that you don't think about it.
Speaker 1:If you compare it to Wi-Fi, like 6 gig in Wi-Fi, where it's like you have to have continuous channels set up, unless it's available, you can only use a section of it, right? Or unless it's interference-ridden, then you can only use a section of it. But here they show off how having it from multiple angles is important. That to me is really cool, not just because of what happens with MLO and Wi-Fi, but also what's going to happen with new architecture that's going to allow multiple access points to tie into each other. So I thought that that was pretty neat. It's just it's neat to see technology used in a unique way that's different from Wi-Fi, and I think that Tarana has a leg up because they were built from, as he said, from silicone to software, all the way, from top to bottom. They were built specifically to handle fixed wireless, so they did some neat things like that which allow them to do other things.
Speaker 1:Now, no mention on what their G. Their product right now is called the G1, no product information on a G2, but he did say you can count on us doing this another year, another product, and it's going to be a good one, and I think they're going to go straight to G3. So lots of speculation about doing three, five, three, six, five, five gig and 6 gig on one unit and being able to bring all that in. I think that that's going to be pretty cool. Now, along those lines about what Tarana introduced yesterday, what they announced over at Wispapalooza, t-mobile is talking about 5G advanced already, and that's cool. They're saying that by the end of the year let me find the link that I have open by the end of the year they're saying that they're going of the year let me find the link that I have open. By the end of the year they're saying that they're going to be able to support 5G advanced on some of their deployments, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1:But then it got me wondering what the hell is 5G advanced? Because I knew some of it but I didn't know. I was like I know this much about it because I'm playing in the Wi-Fi space. It's like, okay, well, where are we going to go next? So I had to do some fancy, fancy Googling and Nokia always has really good graphs, so I wanted to bring this graphic up real quick and show you what to save you a Google. But five of the key enhancements are support for XR, for AR and VR gaming because of low power consumption, and edge compute. It's also got enhanced coverage, they say.
Speaker 1:But the thing that stood out to me was MIMO performance, and the MIMO performance adds a different element into 5G Advanced. It's not available in 5G, so 1,024 antenna elements per unit. So now you can do crazy beamforming. There's lots of really neat stuff that you can do with 5G Advanced and I had a little list of them. Let me see if I can find it Enhanced massive MIMO up to 1,024 antenna elements per base station for better beamforming, better spectral efficiency, 3d beamforming. So this is FD MIMO. Fd MIMO is not just the horizontal plane let's see if I can find a graphic. It's not just the horizontal plane and the vertical plane, but FD MIMO, specifically for beamforming, takes not just your X and your Y, but it throws a different axis in there as well. So you've got a lot of really neat stuff that can happen using FD MIMO. So that's another innovation that's in there.
Speaker 1:Coordinated multipoint this is what I wanted to talk about. Let me see if I can find a graphic to throw up Coordinated multipoint or COMP as it's listed. Let's see if I can find this right here. Comp there's a number of different ways, but essentially, if you think about not necessarily MLO MLO is multi-link optimization or aggregation. What this looks like is you have coordination between base stations and on a network to deliver the most effective interference-free performance to the UE or to the handset. So, using coordinated multipoint, it's going to usher in a whole new level of being able to supply better data latency and better throughput to the end user device.
Speaker 1:And this is something I'm going to flip right back to the T-Mobile message. But T-Mobile is saying that by the end of the year they're going to start doing this and they're going to start deploying it, and one of the reasons they say that they can do it is because all of their infrastructure wasn't equipment that was 4G, equipment that had been upgraded to 5G. This is all 5G native or 5G standalone equipment that they can immediately go and push the software push to to start to take advantage of this stuff. And you're talking about some pretty significant optimizations and enhancements over here. Peak download speeds, for example, between 5G and 5G advanced go up to 10 gigabit per second versus 5 gig per second on traditional 5G. So from 5G is 5 gig, 5ga is 10 gig. Peak upload speeds go from 1 gig in 5G to 3 gig in 5G advanced. The advanced average user throughput it improves by about two to three times, which helps with optimization of how quickly you get your data and how quickly that data gets to your device to do what you need to do. It's also got better flexibility for uplink and downlink ratios and optimized latency for high data rates.
Speaker 1:Now, speaking of optimized latency, here is another name, another thing that you might look out for to learn as it's going to come out you're going to learn more about. It's called L4S. So L4S is low latency, low loss and scalable throughput. So basically there's a lot that goes into L4S, but it's a big carrier. Buzzword that they've been talking about for about the last three years is how do you this goes into the quality of experience and how do you optimize a network for L4S? How do you optimize it for low latency, low loss and scalable? And one of the things that's talked about is, as video consumption rises, what they do is they deliver a certain amount of data stream to keep your video looking the way that it's supposed to completely optimized and scaling it so that the video always looks good, but in a very optimized way and in a very low latency way. So L4S is going to be a big thing.
Speaker 1:You're going to hear a lot more people talk about, but that's one of the big benefits of 5G advanced Coordinated multipoint. Again to me, just talking about what Toronto is doing with non-contiguous channels, and you talk about MLO and then moving into split architecture or larger architecture and Wi-Fi. This is that advancement that's happening there. This is that advancement that's happening there and obviously a big push. Everyone wants to talk about AI, but AI, I think, from a carrier perspective, isn't just about what AI does at the edge or what it does for you, but what AI does for the network. So for all of these base stations that have to figure out how to optimize those connections and how to optimize slicing and how to optimize L4S so that they can push QoE. So there's your buzzword soup right there. Ai is going to have a big component in that, just like, I think, in Wi-Fi, when we start talking about multi-link architecture not just MLO, but multiple access points coming with Wi-Fi 8, number one there's not going to be a really easy way to design that, there's not going to be an easy way to administrate it and there's not going to be an easy way to troubleshoot it without some amount of AI involvement. So as we see the industry progress and pushing more and more AI, I think that that's going to become a bigger conversation of what we do day to day, because it's desperately going to be needed in order to do our jobs. That being said, I'm looking forward to hearing a little bit about that from WLPC Prague. See if anyone talks about AI there If you don't follow Mince Kim on LinkedIn M-I-N-S-E space K-I-M.
Speaker 1:Mince is one of the thought leaders when it comes to this in my mind. I love his opinion, I love his insight. He works for Cisco. He's talking a lot about using AI within Cisco and within Meraki. So if you're looking for someone who's doing something different, go look at Mensei. Go look at the Mobility Field Day videos where Mensei speaks. He's doing some really neat things there that talk about using AI to optimize the troubleshooting and optimize the network performance on the backend, which is really neat, so you know. Contrastly, if you look at what Juniper is doing where I want to see some great innovation it's like come on, hurry up Now. Again, you got to look at what Meter's doing In my mind. You got to look at how they're taking all this information and then they're leveraging AI, not just on the administration side, but what are they going to do with the Wi-Fi side? And now that they have CBRS under their stack, now that they have neutral host or cellular, if you will in their purview, what is going to happen when you take AI and you apply it across the board to there? So that's what I think is really really phenomenal. There's so many just incredible things that are happening in the space.
Speaker 1:Mobile World Congress we'll learn over the next week. What else was talked about there, but private cellular in and of itself, it seems like was the big deal. Wispapalooza oh, let's talk about this one. Let me see if I can bring up. There was an announcement from Ubiquity at Wispapalooza and very cool. They announced let me see if I can find it. They announced their MLO product for up to 10 gig connections at Wispapalooza. Let me see if I can. Let's see if I can find it here for some of their new stuff. So they're always doing some neat things and they've always had a really good presence at Wispapalooza. Let me look at it on X real quick. And I was happy to see that. You know they teased MLO in 60 gig for their air fiber product last year and then nothing ever came of it. It was like, all right, you guys talked about this and now there's nothing being done. But now it looks like they have an announcement that they made.
Speaker 1:God, I can't believe it's taking me this long to type stuff in. Let's see here. Surf along with me. Well, yeah, there we go. Let's see. Less than a month away, uwc Miami is October 23rd. Oh, I guess that's happening next week. If you're in Miami or in the Miami area, go check out the Unified World Conference there. That's going to be pretty cool. You'll get some good information. Here we go.
Speaker 1:So they have a little video that they are running and they talk about the wave at 60 gigahertz multi-point. They just increased their, their multi-point operation of one of their devices to be 90 degrees and they're saying it's a 10 gigabit per second speed using 60 gigahertz, which is is great. It's POEN. I believe there's a POE out component. They've got two versions of it.
Speaker 1:But one of the things I thought was really neat that they talk about on here was that they have a five gigahertz backup on this. So you've got a 60 gig subscriber unit, 60 gig base station with an optional five gig backup. So if that 60 gig link goes down, then you still have a five gig link. So if that 60 gig link goes down, then you still have a five gig link. So you can see they talk about that 90 degrees with sfp support built into the bottom of it. Sweet, so don't have to worry about a two and a half gig or five or ten gig ethernet. Now you can run power and they introduced some new fiber products as well, but ubiquity coming out swinging with that one and not to be left behind.
Speaker 1:Let's see if I can bring it up here. Cambium introduced a MLO product as well and I don't remember it's got a. Let's see here. It's got a different part number. I can't remember the part number, but let's see if I can go to Cambium's LinkedIn post and scroll down and there's Dimitri. Dimitri will probably be joining us next week. By the way, we had a nice little reminiscent moment about how long it's been since Wispapalooza first got started, so it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1:Here's their tech talks. The future is now. They talk about their indoor Wi-Fi. They talk about their outdoor Wi-Fi. Maybe it wasn't on here, but they did announce a new product. There's a whole new product sheet on there, so maybe we'll get someone from Cambium to join us and talk about what they did. Maybe Derek will join us or someone from over at Cambium Todd or Derek or someone. It would be great to catch up.
Speaker 1:Anyway, lots of cool announcements coming out on the point-to-multipoint side, but, dude, I mean come on when you've got Tarana out there doing what they're doing. Let's be real. You can load up the Ubiquiti stuff all day for 0.2.60 gig, but that next generation fixed wireless stuff is pretty insane. I only say that because I've actually seen it work, so let's take a look at that. Anyway, that's it for the week. There's just a whole heck of a lot going on, so lots of news and information coming from every direction. Had a lot of fun using the NetAlly Cyberscope and taking that information and putting in Hamina. So glad to see those two companies working together.
Speaker 1:I'm sad I'm going to miss everyone at Prague next week, but that's okay. I'll try and pay attention from afar. But please do me a favor If you go to any of these shows, post some content, and I don't mean just like snap a pic of what's going on, like talk about it. Tell me what's happening For those people that are at home. We still get that FOMO and nothing makes that FOMO worse than reading about it. So please help me make my FOMO worse. Post more than a picture. Give me an article, give me a write-up, give me a video, give me a recap, give me a hot take, whatever it takes.
