Verizon launched On Site 5G in June to carry non-public 5G networks to enterprise and public sector amenities. The service brings Verizon’s 5G Extremely Wideband capabilities to indoor and out of doors places, no matter whether or not they’re inside a public 5G Extremely Wideband protection space.
The non-public networks are non-standalone, that means they mix 5G Extremely Wideband small cells with the LTE packet core and radios of On Web site LTE. With a non-standalone community, clients can leverage each 5G Extremely-Wideband and 4G LTE capabilities.
At BlackRock’s new Hudson Yards facility, the community shall be used on the buying and selling flooring, the client-facing convention middle, assembly rooms and different areas that can profit from excessive pace and low latency.
Verizon has been aggressively increasing its 5G Extremely Wideband community, which makes use of a high-band, ultra-wide millimeter wave spectrum to ship high-speed 5G. That’s totally different from Verizon’s “5G Nationwide” community, which leverages 5G and 4G. (Learn extra in regards to the totally different “flavors” of 5G here).
After spending an eye-popping $52 billion final yr for the C-band spectrum spanning the US, Verizon has used it to carry 5G Extremely Wideband mobility service to components of greater than 1,700 cities across the US thus far.
Verizon’s larger 5G strategy melds 5G with edge computing, and it includes creating an ecosystem with tech giants like AWS and Microsoft Azure.