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Re: AWS Private 5G

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Post by detaro » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

anonymousDan wrote: post #9

Surely the problem is access to spectrum, or is the idea to rely on unused spectrum bands reserved for local experimental use?

With 5G, many countries have reserved space and/or licensing mechanisms to get spectrum access for small local deployments.

Re: AWS Private 5G

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Post by parhamn » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

Curious if anyone is familiar: if you could purchase these for your home and all your devices that have wifi chips also have 5g chips, how do you choose between 5g and wifi for your home? Would 5g make sense in wifi-like deployments? Any reason this tech hasn’t merged?

Re: AWS Private 5G

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Post by woofcat » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

cinbun8 wrote: post #4

What's the business case for a service like this? Is there anyone on HN that would order this for example?

They outline a few cool business cases. I imagine it could be used by mining corps who are often in the middle of no-where. Set up your own cellular tower and give everyone Amazon branded sim cards and it will be a hell of a lot better than Wi-Fi in specific buildings and/or radio only communications.

Re: AWS Private 5G

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Post by Fomite » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 5:40 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #10

cinbun8 wrote: post #4

What's the business case for a service like this? Is there anyone on HN that would order this for example?

There's use cases further down the page. A fair amount of companies have existing applications that are on-prem and could be made to work with mobile devices this way without having to expose endpoints to the internet. Things like mobile barcode scanners, iot sensors, roving employees with tablets, etc. Edit: Though there are other options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29395370

There's a ton of research applications with small sensors.

Re: AWS Private 5G

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Post by NikolaeVarius » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 5:40 PM UTC

parhamn wrote: post #12

Curious if anyone is familiar: if you could purchase these for your home and all your devices that have wifi chips also have 5g chips, how do you choose between 5g and wifi for your home? Would 5g make sense in wifi-like deployments? Any reason this tech hasn’t merged?

You test them

Re: AWS Private 5G

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Post by verelo » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

I'd love to set this up for my rural community. I've got a good connection but many people have no cell service, no dsl lines, no cable...literally nothing. Until something like starlink is ubiquitous i feel like this could go a long way to solving their problems.

Re: AWS Private 5G

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Post by ACAVJW4H » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

Open Source software stack to run private LTE/5G with SDR https://github.com/srsran/srsRAN

Re: AWS Private 5G

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Post by ethanpil » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 5:42 PM UTC

I wonder if this is a product that was built on top of something they needed to use internally. Makes me wonder how Amazon is using this technology for themselves... Anyone care to speculate?

Re: AWS Private 5G

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Post by jack_riminton » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 5:42 PM UTC

I feel like this has come off the back of Amazon creating their own 5G for their warehouses and robots. Can any Amazon employees confirm this?

Re: AWS Private 5G

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Post by the_arun » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 5:43 PM UTC

ethanpil wrote: post #18

I wonder if this is a product that was built on top of something they needed to use internally. Makes me wonder how Amazon is using this technology for themselves... Anyone care to speculate?

I see a potential use of it from IoT devices. An eg. a tractor wants to communicate with a central server for commands.