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 About Kurt Schaubach

Kurt Schaubach brings 25 years of wireless industry experience to Federated Wireless where he plays a key role in developing technologies and new business strategies to create the next-generation architecture of broadband wireless.
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Get To Know Our Award-Winning Technology

Last month, we were pleased to learn that our Spectrum Access System (SAS) and Environmental Sensing Capability (ESC) platform, CINQ XP, was selected as a finalist in this year’s Fierce Innovation Awards: Telecom Edition in the Spectrum Efficiency category. We are even more excited to announce that we won!

The Fierce Innovation Awards: Telecom Edition is a carrier-reviewed awards program from the publisher of FierceWireless, FierceTelecom and FierceCable. Finalists’ applications were reviewed by an exclusive panel of executives from major telecommunications companies, including Verizon, TeliaSonera, Comcast, Sprint and T-Mobile. All applications were evaluated based on the following criteria: effectiveness, ease of use/ ROI, true innovation and end-user impact.

The reason we won? The judges said, “This is enabling technology for an entirely new business model, making use of shared spectrum to reduce cost of communications. The use of sensors and propagation models represent innovations to improve performance well beyond any other system.”

We couldn’t agree more. Federated Wireless has been a leader in developing the regulations, standards development and ecosystem for this shared spectrum model that has the potential to revolutionize the wireless industry. At the same time, we’ve been working to perfect our technology and, while we are still developing and testing our technology, it is exciting to be recognized for that piece of the market as well.

If you’re wondering whether shared spectrum is for you, you can download our new whitepaper on the network opportunity shared spectrum provides for MNOs.

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Whitepaper: Shared Spectrum Market Opportunity for Mobile Network Operators

Mark Lowenstein from Mobile Ecosystem recently took the time to outline the Shared Spectrum market opportunity for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). The resulting whitepaper outlines how MNOs will benefit from the spectrum-sharing market.

  • Revenue enhancement. Either directly through traditional service plans or indirectly, with more data staying “on-net.”
  • Speed of deployment. Incentive auctions, like the 600 MHz currently in progress, can take years for the spectrum to become available for commercial use. This model presents a way for network extension to be much more expedient.
  • Cost savings. Historically, operators have employed expensive DAS or carrier Wi-Fi solutions. This presents the possibility for a more cost-effective, ‘on-demand’ service model.
  • Quality control. Operators can extend the high quality of experience built into LTE, rather than relinquish it to the vagaries of Wi-Fi.
  • Competitive advantage. A high capacity, quality coverage LTE network that can be extended indoors offers MNOs a competitive advantage in network capabilities over other cellular operators who aren’t using shared spectrum and could help gain share in the enterprise segment. Shared Spectrum would help MNOs keep traffic on their network, which is important given the increased competition from cable MSOs, cloud providers, and so on.

At least at the outset, MNOs will be leading the spectrum-sharing market. And, in doing so, they will also be opening up spectrum-sharing opportunities in the enterprise and at venues, as well as a number of other more traditional telecommunications markets. If you’d like to learn more, please download the whitepaper.

RCR Wireless Carrier Wrap – The Advantages and Challenges of Shared Spectrum

I recently had the privilege of discussing the advantages and challenges of spectrum sharing on RCRWireless’ Carrier Wrap.

Spectrum, a highly valued essential resource for wireless communications, is finite and in high demand due to the exponential increase in wireless mobile data traffic. Federated Wireless stands today at the forefront of the wireless industry revolutionizing the way in which spectrum will be managed for the future. We pioneered the three-tiered dynamic shared spectrum technology, the model selected by the FCC for the 3.5 GHz band.

Federated Wireless will be first to market with this technology. Our solution breaks down traditional barriers of high cost and exclusive spectrum. And our differentiated business model creates opportunities for more efficient and innovative approaches to spectrum.

We continue to make tremendous progress in developing the broad market for shared spectrum towards a 2017 commercial launch. The plan is to enable several market segments, including carriers, cable, enterprise mobility and IoT with shared spectrum. And, once proven in these areas, we’re confident the shared model can be applied to other bands and markets as well.

 

CINQ XP, Our SAS and ESC Platform, Was Honored for Spectrum Efficiency

We’re pleased to share that Federated Wireless has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Fierce Innovation Awards: Telecom Edition, a carrier-reviewed awards program from the publisher of FierceWireless, FierceTelecom and FierceCable. CINQ XP, our Spectrum Access System (SAS) and Environmental Sensing Capability (ESC) platform, was recognized as a finalist in the Spectrum Efficiency category.

Finalists’ applications were reviewed by an exclusive panel of executives from major telecommunications companies including Verizon, TeliaSonera, Comcast, Sprint and T-Mobile. All applications were evaluated based on effectiveness, ease of use/ ROI, true innovation and end-user impact.

Federated Wireless is helping to enable the next revolution in wireless. 5G will only be possible with more intelligent spectrum management. Carriers and governments need technologies that can extract greater utilization of existing spectrum resources and Federated Wireless’ CINQ XP aims to do just that. It provides:

– High quality spectrum utilization factor.

– Efficiencies across three tiers of access, supporting the federal government, carriers and the consumer.

– ESC to help minimize the impact of exclusion zones.

We have been a leader in developing the regulations, standards development and ecosystem for the shared spectrum model that has the potential to revolutionize the wireless industry. At the same time, we’ve been working to perfect our technology and, while we are still developing and testing our technology, it is exciting to be recognized for that piece of the market as well.

 

Mo Ghorbanzadeh Is a Federated Wireless Superhero

Federated Wireless is proud to promote our outstanding team’s advanced expertise and leadership in the industry. As further proof, one of our Senior System Engineers Mo Ghorbanzadeh recently published a textbook about cellular service solutions. Add this to the growing list of team accomplishments, which includes:

  • 250 technical papers published
  • 100 patents held
  • 28 advanced degrees
    • 12 doctoral degrees
    • 16 master’s degrees
  • 20+ years of industry experience among each of our executive team members
  • 16 years of industry experience on average of all staff
  • 4+ technical textbooks published

Mo’s work on this text is validation of his dedication to his craft. It is also confirmation of the strength and intelligence of the group of people we have assembled at Federated Wireless. We are among the best and brightest collection of technology minds.

Congrats to Mo on contributing to this expertise. Expect more from us as our team expands and our expertise advances even further.

Federated Wireless Begins Trials to Prove Value of Shared Spectrum

As a recent article points out, Federated Wireless has begun trials with several partners with its Spectrum Access System (SAS) within the FCC’s 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Services (CBRS) band. We continue to see interest from both traditional and non-traditional operators to test within the band. Our main goals with these trials are:

1) To prove our technology. Our CINQ XP platform uses a Spectrum Access System (SAS) to dynamically allocate and manage spectrum resources, while an Environmental Sensing Capability (ESC) is essential to open access to the 3.5 GHz band nationwide in order to ensure interference-free operation for federal incumbents and other users.

2) To continue to grow and build confidence in the 3.5 GHz ecosystem. Siemens and Telrad Networks have already signed agreements to work with our CINQ XP platform, demonstrating the potential success of shared spectrum services in the 3.5 GHz band. We expect several others to sign on this year. We are also collaborating with major companies such as Google, Intel, Nokia, Qualcomm, and Ruckus Wireless through the CBRS Alliance and the Wireless Innovation Forum (WinnForum) to test within the band, and continue to work toward raising awareness of this new approach to democratizing spectrum.

3) To validate the shared spectrum business model. The FierceWireless article noted that there was some doubt with a shared spectrum model: “some commenters in the FCC’s Spectrum Frontiers millimeter wave proceeding said they did not want the 3.5 GHz spectrum sharing model to be replicated in the millimeter wave bands in part because it’s still unproven.” This is why these trials will be critical. Our CEO Iyad Tarazi responded: “From my perspective, it’s more important right now to enable 3.5, to enable the model, to enable the technology and as people get comfortable with it, I think you’ll see more and more adopt it.”

Federated Wireless will continue the trials and planning into next year and we expect to start seeing commercial use by 2018. We fully expect the value of adopting this new model of wireless networks to be quickly realized – within the 3.5 GHz band and others.

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