Celona Private 5G Aims Its 'Arrows' at Nokia's Massive Market Share

Celona expanded its enterprise private wireless platform with 5G-specific updates that the vendor said position it as a viable enterprise alternative in a growing market, particularly against market heavyweight Nokia.

Puneet Shetty, VP of product marketing at Celona, explained the updates add 5G features to the vendor’s legacy 4G LTE-based private network platform. This includes a new 5G access point that supports a deeper pool of spectrum resources; the vendor’s Converged Edge product that provides core and control plane services; and a cloud-based orchestrator that supports remote installation of access points and the edge software.

The access point includes support for spectrum channel bandwidths as wide as 100 megahertz, includes an antenna design to support 2×2 multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions, and has concurrent multi-mode support for 4G and 5G.

Shetty noted the architecture can support spectrum between the 3.3 GHz and 4.9 GHz bands. This includes the n48 spectrum band that runs from 3.55 GHz to 3.7 GHz, also known as the quasi-licensed Citizen Broadband Radio Spectrum (CBRS) used in the United States; and the n77 spectrum band at 3.7 GHz and the n78 spectrum band at 3.5 GHz that are used in different parts of Europe. He added that Celona later this year would be adding n79 band support in the 4.7 GHz band that is used in parts of Asia.