Enhancing Rural Connectivity, New Wireless Opportunities and Deployment Scenarios

Evening Reception & Registration

At Hotel

Welcome and Introductions

Host Introduction and Keynote

• Identifying needs and innovative ways to bring fixed and mobile 5G applications to rural communities
• Understanding rural and sparsely populated services and network challenges
• How does the industry ensure sustainable services in rural areas
• Exploring 5G usage cases and deployment priorities

Keynote Presentation

President

Networking Break

Service Provider Perspectives

• Why rural population requires mobile and internet connectivity, key demographic statistics, and advantages
• 5G verticals and use cases – How can Agriculture, Construction, Autonomous Aircraft or UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), Energy, Oil & Gas, Education, Tele-Health, etc. benefit?
• Assessing updated Schedules of 5G deployments
• Identifying 5G Deployment Challenges
• New Deployment Scenarios
• How best to address rural 5G need without breaking the bank
• Understanding rural use case scenarios for sub 6GHz 5G, CBRS and mmWave

Facebook Connectivity and the Rural Challenge

Research Scientist; Head of Connectivity

5G in a Box : Answer to Rural Connectivity

AVP ( Network Engineering and Delivery)

Networking Lunch

Service Provider Perspectives, continued

• Exploring rural use cases for 5G
• Specific "how-to's" of bringing 5G to rural areas (antenna, small cell, real estate acquisition, ROI) differences in urban vs. rural implementations
• Understanding rural / regional carriers thinking about 5G - lower bands, rural carrier advantages
• Smaller Regional Carriers, new industries that may benefit from 5G, who are they, what will they require
• 5G Deployment Opportunities and scenarios
• Which use cases beside Fixed Wireless Access are feasible in US and other countries?
• What are boundary conditions (like regulation, site access, 3GPP Standardization) which are needed to support it?
• How do operators intend to integrate Small Cells in current 4G Macro Cell networks?
• What performance will 5G really achieve in rural deployments?
• How will operators bring those relevant 5G capabilities (high-speed user throughput, low latency) to rural deployments?

5G User Experience and Capacity

Director., Wireless RF Engineering

Mississippi’s First 5G Deployment

Wireless Systems Engineer

VP, Business Development

Networking Break

OEM Perspectives

• Deployment technology use cases timing / Road map
• Is massive MIMO at 2.6GHz or other bands of interest in rural deployments?
• How does massive MIMO perform in rural environments?
• 5G use cases, deployment challenges, and Interoperability with 4G
• 5G Business models for mmWave transport; Business models for gigabit fixed wireless networks
• Can high capacity mmWave be used for 5G access in rural areas
• 5G roll out band plans/schedules
• 5G deployment modes: Stand-Alone (SA) vs. Non-Stand-Alone(NSA)
• 4G & 5G NSA combinations
• 5G Configurations and deployment options
• What is 5G FWA (Fixed Wireless Access) – how can it help?
• Assessing beamforming technology
• Advantages and challenges of 5G FWA
• What is 5G FWA (Fixed Wireless Access) – how can it help?
• Assessing beamforming technology
• Advantages and challenges of 5G FWA

Performance evaluation of Massive MIMO in rural scenarios

DMTS

5G FWA Broadband Access to Rural Communities

Sr. Staff Systems Engineer

5G Rural - Fixed Wireless Access Economics

CTO, BLiNQ Networks

End-of-Day Panel Session

Adjourn

Networking Dinner - Brennan's

Breakfast

Leveraging Satellite Communications for 5G

• 5G satellite plans and performance expectations
• Can satellites deliver on the promise of seamless connectivity?
• Building on LTE seamless service for airlines, cruise ships and remote geographies
• What are the use cases tying Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit (NGSO) Satcom/GEO Satcom and 5G?
• What are the interfaces and network architectures?
• Understanding the coming changes in satellite technology – GEO/MEO/LEO
  • Capacity, Throughput, Latency, Timelines, Cost points
• Satellite networks evolution to support new satellites and constellations
• Exploring key applications for 5G over satellite
  • Aviation, Maritime, Land mobility, Rural/Remote Backhaul
• Network resilience and high availability
  • Rural/remote enterprises – energy, hospitality, retail, corporate
  • Rural/remote residential, Emergency services
  • IoT – narrowband and broadband – utility, agriculture
• Common satellite and 5G technologies
• Phased array antennas
• Multi beam connectivity
• mmW FWA for rural, Satellite connectivity, Satellite broadband, NTN (Non Terrestrial networks)
• Will IoT and M2M networks drive technological advancements in associated devices to enable satellite and cellular integration?
• Can satellite operators and device manufacturers develop robust solutions that can potentially switch between terrestrial and satellite network as required?
• Can cellular and satellite operators collaborate with IoT and connectivity application developers to advance the capability of end to end solutions for oil & gas, agriculture, construction, autonomous aircraft or UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)?
• Can satellite network operators develop relatively scalable and hybrid components, which facilitate capabilities equivalent to the components that are being used in traditional big satellites?
• How will applications such as mobile, telemetry, and asset monitoring, that require relatively low power, be supported by L-Band and other satellite bands, particularly Ku-and Ka-band?
• mmW for FWA
• Proposed 5G applications and Services are categories as
  • Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB)
  • Massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC)
  • Ultra-Reliable, Low-Latency Communications (URLLC)
• Deployment of terrestrial 5G services will inevitably start with densely populated areas and spread gradually to rural community over many years
• Satellite communications provides wide area coverage is most suitable to fill the gap
  • Ideal for rural or hard to reach terrain
  • With the exception of ultra low-latency, tool to provide most of the 5G services are here and now!
• By example scenarios, we can demonstrate how eMBB, mMTC and URC can be delivered

Leveraging Satellite Communications for 5G

Head, Marketing & Business Development

5G Services via Satellites

VP

Satellite for 5G

Senior Director, Marketing

LEO Satellites and Rural Connectivity

Director, Public/Private Partnerships

Networking Break

System Vendor Perspectives, continued

• Use of Edge Cloud and MEC for local services with Satellite connectivity to the Mobile core
• Security
• Edge computing, SDN, NFVi, telco clouds
• The role of edge clouds in the 5G era
• Will open source SDN/NFVi technologies (OpenStack, Tungsten Fabric, Kubernetes, and others) enable service providers (telco & cable) to deploy edge clouds throughout their distributed infrastructure (central offices, base stations, etc.)?
• Will this enable service providers to enhance their existing infrastructure, prepare for 5G-capable applications, and monetize these resources by offering managed services to enterprise customers?
• Network Slicing : Opportunities and Implementation Challenges
• Virtualized cloud environments and centralized, orchestrated control
• Use cases relevant to rural communities
• Implementation of business and retail services by deploying distributed clouds
• Monetization of existing resources in central offices and regional data centers
• Will Network Slicing allow limitless logical networks to be spawned atop a single physical one?
• Can Network Slicing directly address bandwidth demand and top line revenue growth, providing an array of new business models to serve countless high value use cases?
• Support for Narrow Band IoT applications

Delivering Low Latency & Distributed Services with the Secure Mobile Edge Cloud

Chief Architect

Models for Monetizing 5G

VP

Networking Lunch

System Vendor Perspectives, continued

• The use of microwave and millimeterwave systems for rural backhaul
• Optical networking as service delivery platform in support of 5G applications
• Ethernet based Fronthaul and Midhaul opportunity
• Small Cell opportunity from Ethernet Transport point of view?
• How are deployment and prediction models verified for 5G, in particular for mmWave frequencies
• Modelling an atrium for a 5G NR-based 26 GHz indoor, small cell deployment scenario
• Deploying network based on modelling results
• Correlate results of prediction model to actual coverage measurement results

Fast and Cost Efficient Rollout of Rural Services

SVP and Chief Product Officer

Bringing Gigabit to Every Town’s Main Street

VP, Product Line Management

5G NR Field Measurements – A First Look

Technology Manager, NA

Networking Break

Technology Enablers

• Where is it safe to fly in the 3D radio space of a cellular network (for command & control signals and data transfer)?
• How is that data automatically shared with UAV Service Providers for flight planning and approval by the ANSPs, e.g. FAA?
• How a metamaterials-based satellite flat-panel antenna can provide mobile connectivity to different platforms
• What this high-throughput satellite connectivity means for verticals such as rural vehicles, agriculture, telemedicine, and more
• How edge computing, connected by hybrid satellite/terrestrial networking can benefit 5G and IoT architectures
• Realities with hybrid LTE networks and the bridge to next-generation networks

Cellular Connectivity for BVLOS Drone Operation

GM

Leveraging Mobile Satellite-Enabled Vehicles for Rural 5G Connectivity

Connectivity Solutions Manager

Supporting NGSO and 5G Communications

Chief Technologist

Enabler Technology for 5G & Communication Satellites

Project Leader

Closing Discussion

Adjourn