Wavelength

Wavelength is a company feed from Celona about cellular networks inside enterprises, and it is open about that. One sign-off points people to a Celona inbox, and another mentions the swag. What earns it attention is who gets invited in. In the Office Hours sessions, Greg Yotman and Mehmet Yavuz are joined by Dean Bubley, introduced as an analyst, futurist and wireless expert, whose stated job is to tell them whether they are on track, off track, or what is happening in the wider industry. That outside check keeps the talk grounded. The network slicing session starts by settling on a definition, then moves to real sites. Early private networks, it observes, mostly carry corporate-owned cameras, robots and handhelds, so planners know how many devices to expect and which traffic is most safety-critical. An automated warehouse with no people on the floor and an airport full of vehicles, passengers and baggage end up with very different priorities. The conversation about moving from private 4G to 5G turns on two constraints, spectrum and devices. Some private spectrum, including a UK band at the top of band 77 and millimeter wave at 28 gigahertz, is effectively 5G territory, and low-cost 5G devices are hard to get. Neutral host has a conversation of its own, introduced as a subject that comes up again and again with customers and partners and is sometimes called a killer app. The obstacles named are concrete. Someone has to aggregate sharing arrangements across potentially thousands of private networks, linking private cores with public networks that form part of critical national infrastructure raises security questions, and the standards keep shifting from 4G through 5G non-standalone to standalone. A second strand points the microphone at Celona itself. This strand is pitched as less technical than Office Hours, with Greg Yotman handing topics to Ozer, the VP of Marketing. One question gets asked without cushioning: why should anyone outside care about another startup? The reply runs through a generation that thinks of connectivity as Wi-Fi rather than ethernet, and an enterprise habit of expecting to stay connected anywhere in a warehouse, hospital or school. The partnerships episode moves to channel partners and to executives who get asked about their private 5G strategy and want an answer. There is also a recorded WLPC 2022 panel, 'Enterprise Wireless without Borders', where Wi-Fi and cellular people, including security consultant Jennifer Manella, discuss risk, PCI, controls frameworks and the point that those standards cover anything sent over the air, not only Wi-Fi. For the technology, start with the slicing or neutral host conversations; for the company, start with 'Celona's First Slice'.