It is always good to talk to Celona. The California scale-up has taken a position as an agitator in the excitable private networks market, positioning itself as an enterprise-friendly alternative to the likes of Nokia and Ericsson, with a cellular system born of deliberate cloud-based IT rather than of shrunk-down telco infrastructure (or so it says), and a decent roster of channel partners to give its hyperbole some kind of heft. And, as the hype around private networks slows, and the market gets to grips with the gnarlier challenge of commercial workloads, it is still at; to an extent, the private 5G game is now a three horse race, it says.
