Virtual Network Communications: Mohan Tammisetti, Gary Monetti demonstrate credit-card-sized LTE evolved packet core, small eNodeB

Private LTE networks like the 900 MHz being proposed by Anterix can deliver vital communications reliably to support utilities’ future electric-grid distribution needs, based on the results of a phase-one testing project conducted with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Anterix—formerly known as pdvWireless—last week announced completion of the initial tests, […]

  Craig Connelly, the Prize Competition and Challenge Specialist at the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division of NIST, highlights features of the Tech to Protect Challenge, which will let participants compete for a piece of $2.2 million in prize money by developing public-safety-specific solutions in 10 key focus areas. Tech to Protect will begin […]

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FirstNet Authority board members yesterday voted unanimously to have the organization’s staff begin procurement processes to reinvest funding into making the FirstNet LTE core ready for 5G services and to expand the FirstNet deployable-network program. Both area identified for reinvestment were expected. FirstNet Authority Chairman Ed Horowitz previously identified deployable enhancements and preparing to make […]