Amazon Presentation30 Nov 2018 14:22
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Federated Wireless, Ruckus, Athonet to hold IoT demo with Amazon
by Monica Alleven | Nov 28, 2018 9:42am
https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/federated-wireless-ruckus-athonet-to-hold-iot-demo-amazon
Federated Wireless is providing the spectrum controller, enabling access to the CBRS shared spectrum. AWS is providing the cloud IoT platform—Amazon also offers a range of IoT services.
The Athonet BubbleCloud EPC platform on AWS allows users to deploy LTE networks with simplicity—it provides local “bubbles” or blankets of LTE coverage that are connected and controlled from the AWS Cloud. And Ruckus Networks provides its FCC-certified LTE portfolio.
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One of the themes that is talked about in the CBRS ecosystem is how easy CBRS will make it for enterprises to deploy their own private LTE networks. Some companies even demonstrated it at a race track back in 2017. But handsets that support CBRS in the U.S. are not going to be available immediately, and the AWS event organizers wanted to show people what they could do with CBRS without handsets. They’ve also been working on the Industrial IoT ecosystem
The disruption here is the application creation—the speed, simplicity and cost reduction of creating IoT applications on top of CBRS, according to Iyad Tarazi, president and CEO of Federated Wireless. In the two-hour workshop, IoT developers can create their own IoT applications on top of CBRS—something enabled by the cloud model and AWS. That’s not how IoT applications traditionally have been created, where it would take weeks or months to get it all together.
The news about the demo at AWS re:Invent came a day after IEEE Spectrum reported on an application for an experimental permit using CBRS that was filed last week with the FCC. According to the report, a company called Chrome Enterprises sought permission to test up to 450 prototype devices using CBRS at three California sites, but the geographies listed in the application line up to include nearby Amazon facilities, leading to the conclusion that Amazon is actually the entity that is seeking to do the tests.