A little more than a year ago, Federated Wireless announced that the network of sensors that it had built out along the nation’s coastlines was ready to commercially support operations in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service shared spectrum at 3.5 GHz.
That Environmental Sensing Capability (ESC) network is critical to being able to support CBRS usage along the nation’s Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts, because it enables the protection of ship-mounted naval radar incumbents. Federated was the first to put an ESC in operation, and Federated CTO Kurt Schaubach noted that the ESC capability enables the company to assign manage the full 150 megahertz of the CBRS band in most locations across the country, including the often highly-populated coastal protection zones.
