Private networks are becoming an increasingly interesting option for many organizations.
Samsung Networks
Wireless communications for businesses have never been more critical, and the technology choices for enabling that capability have never been more plentiful. As a result, companies are spending a great deal of time weighing the approaches that best suit their requirements.
This is particularly true as companies prepare for a new year that is likely to see a great deal of demands placed on networks, driven by the need to plan for the flexibility that hybrid work models will require. Not surprisingly, one of the most popular possibilities under consideration are private 5G networks. Offering the promise of high throughput, immense capacity, low latency and inherent security, enterprise cellular networks powered by 5G are a seemingly logical choice for a number of organizations.
At the same time, it’s becoming clear that these private networks are not necessarily the right choice for all businesses. WiFi advancements, particularly with the new 6E version, offer compelling benefits for traditional enterprise networks, including significantly improved bandwidth, a host of suppliers, easy management tools, and most notably, nearly universal endpoint support.
There are, however, several environments and industries for which the unique benefits of private 5G make sense. In many outdoor environments, for example, WiFi’s limited range can pose an issue, and coverage and capacity limits start to become more apparent. Cellular networks, on the other hand, support stronger signals which can greatly improve network coverage, even for unlicensed cellular radio spectrum such as CBRS (see “Spectrum-Sharing Technologies Like CBRS Key to More Robust Wireless Networks” for more).
By creating private networks that leverage the free-to-use portion of CBRS spectrum, for example, businesses can create private cellular networks that adequately cover an entire transportation hub, not just a single parking lot. Along those lines, Samsung Networks recently highlighted a private cellular network that they implemented at a major university, which offered strong, consistent coverage across the entire campus. The added draw for the school was the additional security of the network, because all devices need to have a SIM card (or eSIM) that’s registered on the network to get access—as is the case with all public cellular networks—dramatically reducing the risk of rogue devices (or individuals) getting onto the network.
In the case of the university example, the network was built around Samsung Networks’ 4T4R CBRS Remote Radio Head device, which incorporates antennas that can simultaneously transmit and receive four cellular channels, hence the name, as well as Samsung’s Compact Core software, which …….
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobodonnell/2021/12/15/samsung-networks-looking-to-enable-private-5g/