Federated Wireless Looks To Ride Bead Wave With New CBRS Planner Tool
RCRWirelessNews, Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
Spectrum management company Federated Wireless has released a new network planner tool for fixed wireless access (FWA) and private networks in CBRS spectrum in the US. The product is AI-powered, said the firm, insofar as it offers advanced radio frequency channel planning, coverage analysis, and propagation modelling based on live shared spectrum data.
The product, called Adaptive Network Planner (ANP), adjusts ('in real-time') to factors such as user density and interference, streamlining network deployment and improving performance forecasting, said Federated Wireless. It features 'flexible' APIs to 'streamline' its features and functions with existing business systems and processes, it said.
The product is now available to all clients. Federated Wireless has flagged its value for smarter rollout of new fixed-wireless access (FWA) networks in CBRS spectrum, particularly as the US government's $42.45 billion BEAD project - a federal digital-divide initiative for 'broadband equity, access, and deployment (BEAD); part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) - makes money available for targeted FWA broadband expansion.