8 WISPAPALOOZA SHOW I OCTOBER 9 – 12, 2023 www.bekabusinessmedia.com DAY 2 L Z OO 2023 Since releasing in 2020, CBRS commercialization has continued to grow with no stop in sight. According to the OnGo Alliance, more than 350,000 CBRS access points are now in use, with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) reporting the number of devices grew by 121 percent over a 21-month period that lasted from April 2021 to January 2023. Out of all the active devices, 85 percent are using general authorized access (GAA) with more than 70 percent of these devices being deployed in rural census blocks. One of the latest, and significant, improvements to CBRS includes the FCC’s decision to allow citizens broadband radio service devices (CBSDs) to continue transmissions on approved grants for up to 24 hours without requiring renewed authorization from the spectrum access system (SAS). This improvement to performance and reliability, along with the increased cyber-security and control that private networks provide, has made CBRS private networks drastically more appealing for a range of enterprise-grade use cases. CBRS offers enterprises a suite of capabilities crucial for enterprise operations, including traffic management, capacity, low latency, reliability and security, all of which are vital for applications such as the industrial internet of things (IIoT) and other enterprise-based services, including voice communication. Notably, CBRS networks are less intricate in smaller enterprise setups compared to the extensive LTE networks run by carriers and offer operational simplicity similar to Wi-Fi. Customized wireless networks increasingly are seen as essential investments for enterprises, as they are often the only way to cater to specific IIoT and other enterprise-focused applications. Enterprises typically cannot rely on mobile operators to fully fund and customize networks to their needs. By deploying private or neutral host networks, enterprises retain control over network architecture, performance, resource management, and traffic prioritization. ABI Research, a global technology intelligence firm, has predicted the overall market value for enterprise private networks will reach $109 billion within the next seven years. This value includes the revenues generated by professional services, which will contribute roughly $47 billion (44 percent) to the overall market share. As WISPs continue to familiarize themselves with CBRS private networks, it stands to reason that rural operators can leverage their knowledge to gain a significant footprint of the market and partner with local enterprise customers to establish an “as-a-service” business model to build hybrid private networks. These hybrid network models operate where the enterprise owns the network infrastructure with the service provider acting as the manager to ensure smooth daily use. This model lowers the capex and opex significantly for the network operator while providing a reliable ongoing revenue stream to support ongoing business ventures. This private network hybrid model was used by Cabana Happy Valley, an apartment complex containing 292 units, located in Phoenix. The apartment is housed entirely by Taiwanese residents who are training U.S. workers to operate the new TSMC semiconductor plant located nearby. The apartment’s property owners wanted to provide their residents with smart-home functionality that could manage smart locks, thermostats and cameras. This smart-home solution would then decrease the workload on the property managers as they integrated the Taiwanese residents to American life, simplify the residents’ lives and ultimately increase the property’s value. However, the property owners lacked the technical skills within their organization to build a solution that could meet these needs. After learning of the capabilities and potential of CBRS, Cabana Happy Valley chose Alef Edge to build its private network smart home solution. Alef works directly with enterprise customers to offer a private mobile network as a service solution to simplify network buildouts. Alef built a custom private networking solution for Cabana Happy Valley by leveraging CBRS ecosystem partners Baicells, LittleBird, CELLocity, and Vall Technologies. CELLocity provided the core, LittleBird provided the amenity access point, Baicells provided the four Nova430e’s required to make the network possible, and Vall Technologies was the installer. Ultimately, Cabana Happy Valley was able to deploy the smart home solution for its residents. This model can be replicated and does not need to be limited to a “smart-home” application but can fit the specific need of the enterprise, whether that’s increasing premise security, developing machine automation, or improving internal workflows. WISPs stand at a unique junction, able to leverage intricate technical knowledge and professional installer certifications, to approach enterprises to develop custom private network solutions. CBRS adoption continues to soar due to the traffic management, capacity, low latency, reliability, and security capabilities of the technology. Hybrid private network deployment models are growing and offer an accessible avenue to generate additional revenue streams. m If you want to learn how you can leverage CBRS to build private networks for enterprise customers, visit Baicells at booth 349, or send an email to sales_na@baicells.com to schedule a meeting. Growing Option for Enterprise Networks Sonar Software is now part of Avalara’s “Certified for AvaTax” program, which features integrations that perform at the highest level, providing the best possible customer experience. The integration between the two organizations allows internet service providers (ISP) to automate the entire tax calculation and remittance process with a prebuilt connection between Sonar and AvaTax for Communications, simplifying tax compliance across a range of media and communications products. By leveraging Sonar and Avalara, ISPs can improve their regulatory FCC compliance and get more accurate tax determinations with automated tax calculation by jurisdiction, and complex tax-on-tax logic, all from within Sonar. Using Sonar and Avalara together makes managing complex communications taxes easier with a centralized portal for transaction transparency. ISPs can define multiple levels of global or geographical taxes for specific services and build out tax zones and tax rates within Sonar to manage state, and local tax obligations, including communications taxes. m Visit booths 446 & 448 to talk with the Sonar team and learn more about the Avalara integration. Sonar, Avalara Simplify Tax Management
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