Tag: Rapid5GS
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WISPAPALOOZA 2025: The WISP Industry Shows Significant Strength
“We’re stronger together than apart.” This timeless truth was on full display this year in the electric hallways of the Paris and Horseshoe Hotel in Las Vegas. The wireless internet industry descended on the venue for WISPA’s annual WISPAPALOOZA conference, a vital event that allows operators, vendors, and subject matter experts to compare notes, share…
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The Great American Backhoe Bonanza: How Washington’s Fiber Obsession Buried the AI Future — Until Now
For years, Washington bet everything on fiber, spending billions in taxpayer money with the primary purpose of extending fiber cable to every home – all of this with the goal of future-proofing the American internet. It hasn’t worked. Instead, this backhoe bonanza has burned through public funds while leaving the country unprepared for the real…
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You’ve Got Trees. You’ve Got Terrain. You Can’t Afford Tarana.
When you’re up against brutal terrain — dense trees, heavy forests, and tough topography — wireless internet deployment options narrow fast. You either pay for expensive licensed spectrum or turn to CBRS, a public-use radio band that delivers the signal strength needed to punch through obstructions and bring rural broadband and edge devices online. For…
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Simplifying the Core: Introducing Rapid5GS
One of the hardest parts of building a private LTE or 5G network is getting a functional network core up and running. In mobility parlance, this core is known as the EPC (Evolved Packet Core) or 5GC (5G Core)—and it’s essentially the brain of a cellular network. This “brain” handles all the essential functions that…