Network provider Celona recently announced an expansion of its neutral host solution to millions of AT&T customers.
Partnership brings cellular coverage to more customers
Celona’s Neutral Host enables organizations to enhance customer experience for cellular subscribers by extending public cellular coverage into environments where cell reception is poor.
“Celona Neutral Host represents a significant advancement in enterprise connectivity and is an even more compelling solution now that AT&T has joined,” said Mehmet Yavuz, Co-founder and CTO at Celona. “Due to their rigorous test and certification process, AT&T can ensure their customers receive the superior cellular service they expect. And enterprises simply sign one contract with Celona. It’s fast, simple, and cost effective.”
Celona Neutral Host has been previously certified with T-Mobile and is now available to AT&T subscribers when they enter a building covered by a Celona 5G LAN network. The solution is also powered by Celona’s cloud-based Multi-Operator Exchange (MOXN), which creates a secure tunnel to the operator’s public network.
Any device, including smartphones and tablets with SIMs/eSIMs from AT&T and T-Mobile, can, with Celona Neutral Host, automatically detect, authenticate, and connect to the Celona 5G LAN over the CBRS spectrum. Each data and voice session is seamlessly routed to the respective mobile operator networks.
Celona Neutral Host appears like each carrier’s regular public cellular services, which allows subscribers to automatically connect and authenticate the service on their cellular devices with excellent quality. The user or operator does not need to have a special setup.
Additionally, it can be deployed and operational at half the cost of legacy distributed antenna systems (DAS) and in a shorter time frame. Celona provides enterprises with flexible deployment and pricing options, allowing neutral hosts to be enabled on existing Celona private wireless networks or deployed as a standalone solution for neutral host-only services.
MOXN tech simplifies complex operational needs
Celona’s MOXN technology powers the Celona Neutral Host solution. The technology is a cloud-hosted multi-site, multi-tenant software exchange that simplifies operations and manageability by removing cumbersome and costly hardware burdens. MOXN allows mobile subscriber traffic to be aggregated and securely tunneled to the MNO core network, allowing for a seamless user experience and guaranteeing subscriber service level agreements and KPIs for each MNO’s public cellular service.
Further, Celona has achieved the certification of its 5G LAN solution with AT&T after completing a suite of interoperability and regulatory test cases in the AT&T lab. The solution has also successfully completed a large-scale live production trial with Stanford Health Care. Stanford plans to expand the deployment of private 5G neutral host networks to several buildings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
“Stanford Health Care is pioneering advancements in healthcare, dedicated to enhancing the experience and the outcomes for our patients and clinical staff,” said Christian Lindmark, CTO of Stanford Health Care and Stanford School of Medicine. “Beyond ensuring reliable public cellular connectivity within our facilities, we envision utilizing this platform to establish a secure private wireless network dedicated to essential medical technologies, including clinical communication, patient monitoring, and clinical video streaming.”
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