Federated Wireless Says Test Shows Technology Works for 3.5 GHz Band

Federated Wireless said it demo'd interoperability between its spectrum access system and an SAS developed by Alphabet’s Access team. Federated said the demonstration shows the workability of the FCC’s shared spectrum regime in the 3.5 GHz band. The agency labeled the band the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS). “Federated Wireless and Alphabet’s Access team demonstrated operational interoperability for their independently developed SASs, which illustrates a necessary step for industry readiness to launch a commercial shared spectrum service while validating the SAS-to-SAS interface protocol defined by the Wireless Innovation Forum,” said a Thursday Federated news release. “This is a requirement for a multi-SAS administered CBRS band that could enable higher data rate LTE access for mobile devices nationwide.” Sepehr Mehrabanzad, Federated senior vice president-engineering, said “all required building blocks are coming together effectively as demonstrated today and further indication of our readiness towards commercialization of a shared spectrum solution.”