AFCEA International Chapter News
HAWAII CHAPTER CHAPTER - Nov 17, 2020

Industry Expert Discusses the First Enterprise for 5G

The chapter's November luncheon featured Salvador D'Itri, chairman of the National Spectrum Consortium and general manager for research and development at Federated Wireless Inc. In November, he presented on the topic of "DoD: The First Enterprise for 5G."

D'Itri opened with an overview of the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC) ,explaining how it is focused on research and development and prototyping. With a membership consisting of Silicon Valley startups, academia and U.S. Defense Department leadership, it is the NSC's goal to foster an environment of collaboration where businesses can grow. The NSC can be leveraged for working groups, white papers, collaboration interchanges, Industry Day events and requests for prototype proposals (RPP).

"5G encompasses almost everything at every level." With greater capacity and reliability, reduced latency and more devices, the new Cloud Native 5G provides more spectrum options and multiple connectivity methods such as 2G/3G/Wi-Fi. Commercially, 5G is applicable on systems that support human-to-human, human-to-machine and machine-to-machine environments. Designed with a dual-use purpose, the military can employ this in a similar fashion to prevent development of stovepipe systems.

Unlike 4G, which was primarily an app-driven consumer economy, 5G is a hybrid and has physical and technical jobs associated with it. Job outlook is expected to be extensive and far-reaching to places like the manufacturing or steel industry, where both the technical and physical base are being developed.

The NSC has received several RPP's for evaluation of critical-use cases of 5G spectrum covering various aspects such as "dynamic spectrum sharing, AR/VR training and a smart warehouse." Future opportunities such as "DoD: 5G To Next G" initiative and "Spectrum Forward" will set the stage for the ability to accelerate, innovate and operate through the Defense Department's move to 5G and what lies ahead.

In close, D'Itri commented that the nation that finds ubiquitous connectivity wins the fight, and the possibilities for 5G spectrum and technology may be limitless. Collaboration is the secret sauce.


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