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Overview
Ballast Networks built a private wireless CBRS network for Sound Hotel Seattle Belltown. With a budget of $40,000. Ballast Networks was able to improve the hotel’s network services by deploying Airspan radios and Druid core switch.
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Challenges
The number of rooms in Sound hotel is around 140. The hotel’s network services must ensure the visitors’ phones remain connected, enable environmental monitoring, employee communications or video surveillance. Another requirement is to allow the guests to route emergency calls to 911.
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Solutions & Benefits The network runs in the unlicensed 3.5GHz CBRS spectrum band and covers the hotel’s first two floors – or roughly 10,000 square feet. The deployment included four transmission sites using Airspan radios and a core from Druid Software. Ballast also utilized the capabilities Neutral Host Network services by using Multiple Operator Core Network (MOCN) technology to enable the hotel’s guests to connect to their private network.
With MOCN, the guests can also shift onto the hotel’s private wireless network when they were no longer in reach of AT&T’s cell sites outside the hotel. The call routing to 911 also worked.
With Airspan solutions, Ballast proved the efficiency of designing private wireless network using Neutral Host Network technology. This network design is more affordable and requires less bulky equipment which is a practical solution especially for businesses with small spaces.
Ballast’s Neutral Host as a Service (NHaaS)
