Federated Wireless

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Federated Wireless
Industry Telecommunications
Founded2012;11 years ago (2012)
Key people
Iyad Tarazi (CEO)
Website www.federatedwireless.com

Federated Wireless is an American-based wireless communications company headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia. [1] The company is "commercializing CBRS spectrum for 4G and 5G wireless systems". [2]

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Federated was founded in 2012 by Jeffrey H. Reed, Charles Clancy, Robert McGwier and Joseph Mitola, who subsequently co-applied for a number of patents relating to the operation of shared spectrum for wireless networks. The company was created to develop technology to enable the operation of Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), and is "backed by communications industry stalwarts" such as Charter Communications, American Tower Corporation and Arris. [3] [4] Iyad Tarazi, who had left an executive position at Sprint Corporation in a March 2014 restructuring, [5] joined the company as CEO in September 2014. [6] Federated Wireless, a subsidiary of Allied Minds, [7] provides innovative cloud-based wireless infrastructure solutions[ buzzword ] to extend the access of carrier networks.

In late 2013, Federated Wireless was one of four organizations named as new members by the Wireless Innovation Forum, along with Google, Nordia Soft and the research organization Idaho National Laboratory. The company also supports implementation of a "fully functional [Spectrum Access System] (SAS), capable of managing the proposed three-tier framework" for CBRS spectrum sharing. [8]

In August 2016, Federated Wireless, along with Google, Nokia, Intel, Qualcomm and Ruckus Wireless, launched the CBRS Alliance to "foster the ecosystem" around the 3.5 GHz band. [9] Federated Wireless is on the CBRS Alliance board of directors, with director Sarosh Vesuna as the organization's treasurer. [10] The company has worked closely with others in the broadband communications space "to develop standards and equipment to bring the idea to life". [3] In September 2017, Federated Wireless launched its Spectrum Controller. [4] In April 2018, Verizon Communications announced that it was working with companies including Federated "on system testing across the 3.5GHz CBRS spectrum band". [11] In May 2018, Verizon Communications announced the deployment of CBRS in its commercial network in Florida with Federated Wireless, Ericsson and Qualcomm. [12]

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  1. ↑ "Federated Wireless Submits Comments to the FCC Regarding the Revised Framework for Rulemaking for Shared Spectrum in the 3550-3650 MHz Band". Reuters . December 19, 2013. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
    - Sue Marek (October 23, 2014). "Startup Federated Wireless working on spectrum sharing scheme for 3.5 GHz". Fierce Wireless. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
    - Dan Primack (September 18, 2017). "Venture Capital Deals". Axios .
  2. ↑ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of the Department of Commerce (2015), ch. 4.
  3. 1 2 Barr, Alistair; Bergen, Mark; Moritz, Scott (March 29, 2018). "Carriers Are Hoarding America's Bandwidth. Google Just Wants Them to Share". Bloomberg LP.
  4. 1 2 Alleven, Monica (September 14, 2017). "Federated Wireless debuts CBRS Spectrum Controller, gets backing from Charter, American Tower, Arris". Fierce Wireless.
  5. ↑ Goldstein, Phil (March 25, 2014). "Sprint's Iyad Tarazi leaves company in network team restructuring". Fierce Wireless.
  6. ↑ Chambers, David (April 6, 2017). "Iyad Tarazi, CEO Federated Wireless, roadmaps CBRS 2017 launch". Think Small Cell.
  7. ↑ "Federated Wireless: Overview" . Retrieved May 15, 2015.
    - Phil Goldstein (February 5, 2015). "Google, Nokia and Federated Wireless execs see momentum behind 3.5 GHz ecosystem, uses". Fierce Wireless. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  8. ↑ Federal Communications Commission, FCC Record (2015).
  9. ↑ Alleven, Monica (October 12, 2016). "SpiderCloud tees up enterprise small cell combining LTE, CBRS". Fierce Wireless.
  10. ↑ "CBRS Alliance Members". CBRS Alliance. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
  11. ↑ Reichert, Corinne (April 6, 2018). "Verizon begins LTE trials on 3.5GHz band with Nokia, Ericsson". ZDNet .
  12. ↑ Alleven, Monica (May 16, 2018). "Verizon touts CBRS deployment with Ericsson, Federated Wireless, Qualcomm". Fierce Wireless.


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