S4EP9: 4G, 5G, WiFi, and Private Wireless

What is the future of private wireless and what role will the edge play? In this conversation, Bill sits down with David de Lancellotti, Executive Vice President - Global Head of Enterprise Campus Edge Business at Nokia to discuss private wireless in depth. The two dive into different use cases, across stadiums and manufacturing, and discuss when private wireless could be preferable to 4G, 5G or WiFi.

Key Quotes:

“There's a lot of customers that need privatization…. I don't think commodity is such a bad word  in the sense that at some point, I really see it coming, where, whether it's a brownfield or a greenfield application that you're building for, a port, mine, stadium, what have you, that private network is just like one of the boxes you check.”

“More than one utility in California had to literally shut off the grid. They had to turn people down to make sure that these wires that would, because of wind, knock a wire down and start a fire.  So what if that wire broke? And what if, by the time it hit the ground, it knew to turn itself off?”

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Timestamps:

01:05 How David got started in tech

02:03 Defining Campus Edge and understanding private wireless

07:44 Worker safety and applications

14:41 The challenges of global projects

16:26 Private 4G/5G vs. Public Networks

26:40 Private wireless in stadiums

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Sponsor:

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Credits:

Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

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Links:

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Follow David de Lancellotti on LinkedIn

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