Open up your private wireless network today with Multefire

Опубликовано 26 февраля 2023, 11:50

The deployment of #privatewirelessnetworks is now under way across the globe. In many places, however, the lack of #spectrum is causing a bottleneck. Listen to this podcast to learn about one of the principal solutions to this issue – #MulteFire. Nokia, along with Qualcomm, created the MulteFire Alliance in 2015. Its purpose was to create a global #ecosystem for the deployment of 4G LTE in configurations that used unlicensed spectrums. In the years since, industries have realized they need #cellular #connectivity, particularly LTE or 5G, to digitalize #operations and activate new use cases.

As a result, they have looked into deploying private #wireless networks. However, in some countries, there is limited LTE spectrum; in the UK, for instance, there is less than 20MHz of spectrum bandwidth available for industries, which need a lot of capacity for data-hungry applications such as video surveillance. Some other nations do not have a coherent policy in terms of #LTE license allocations for industrial sites. MulteFire delivers a solution to all these problems. It has 450MHz of bandwidth in the 5GHz frequency band, comes with zero cost, is easy to access and is available in most countries. In the context of the scarcity of spectrum, MulteFire is a gold mine – and so much more than “wi-fi on steroids”, as some have claimed. MulteFire is #unlicensed, and it leverages some of wi-fi’s spectrum bands. It also brings some critical advantages, particularly in the context of #Industry4.0.

One is coverage. Industrial sites are complex, with walls and panels and plenty of metal, which means #radio planning can be a nightmare. MulteFire leverages the capability of 3GPP LTE #4G features, which means one of its access points can deliver the same coverage as more than four #wi-fi access points. Mobility is a key consideration too, for many industrial applications such as autonomous mobile robots. They move around a site, which means network connectivity must be always on, everywhere. Wi-fi does not support handovers between access points, so it cannot support this type of business-critical use case, whereas MulteFire can. Then there’s security. MulteFire is a #3GPP technology with SIM authentication and end-to-end encryption, which makes it superior to wi-fi in an age of increasingly sophisticated #cyber attacks. To learn more about MulteFire, listen to our podcast now.