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  "description": "The company says its new Spectrum AI tool can open up 50 percent more spectrum without deploying new gear",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-18T19:29:53.000Z",
  "site": "https://broadbandbreakfast.com",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, June 18, 2026 – Federated Wireless is aiming to boost shared spectrum capacity without additional airwaves or network gear.\n\nThe company’s new Spectrum AI tool, which it said will be commercially available in mid-July, uses machine learning to judge the guard bands and power limits necessary to avoid interference for a given radio. The more granular simulation, the company says, can open up 50 percent more spectrum in some cases, without deploying any new equipment or bringing in additional spectrum.\n\nLearn about America250 / Telecom150\n\n\n                            Learn about America250 / Telecom150\n                        \n\nFederated is the biggest operator of spectrum access systems (SAS) for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service. The shared band has a tired licensing system, with priority license holders getting protection for those using the spectrum on a free, general access basis. Coastal Navy radars get protection from both.\n\nThat spectrum coordination happens through SASs. Federated has much of the market, managing 85 percent of the more than 450,000 CBRS devices in use, CEO **Iyad Tarazi** said in an interview.\n\nThe Spectrum AI tool will also be available for users of unlicensed 6 GigaHertz (GHz) spectrum too. It’s built on an open-source Nvidia model called Sionna RT, which allows 3D simulation of billions of rays of electromagnetic waves, similar to how the company models visible light for video games. The tool takes in those simulations and other data to quickly produce a more accurate picture of how a given site can operate without receiving or causing interference.\n\nTarazi said the company’s SAS systems have typically assigned channels based on general assumptions about environments and Federal Communications Commission rules, since a site-specific analysis without their new machine learning tool would take many hours or days to complete.\n\n“We basically assumed the worst case for everybody, right?” he said. “In a way, we were wasting spectrum, because we just don’t know what they’re going to use it for.”\n\nThe company has done field testing with Spectrum AI in Philadelphia and Phoenix. Based on that, Federated claims the tool can give CBRS sites five times the network capacity and 50 percent more usable airwaves, without physically deploying any new gear.\n\n“Instead of just giving a channel, I’m actually optimizing it, managing it, watching it,” he said, “and we keep optimizing it as other people deploy next to or on top of you.”\n\nThe tool has been in early deployments with a large mobile operator, Tarazi said, and the company did tests with a large cable operator as well. He didn’t specify which. Verizon was the biggest winner in the CBRS priority license auction in 2020, spending more than $1.8 billion, and both cable giants Charter and Comcast use CBRS for their mobile product.\n\nHe said the Spectrum AI tool should be appealing to operators like those with large CBRS deployments but would be available to fixed wireless and private network users.\n\n“We’re able to pack the spectrum so tightly that we’re able to assign 150 MHz high quality, contiguous spectrum for multiple operators,” Tarazi said. “That’s the equivalent of getting one more operator in these markets, at least.”\n\nAccess to the tool will cost an extra 10-11 percent extra per month, he said, helping to offset the cost of continuously bringing new data into the model and updating it. Once a customer sees a preview of what their performance could look like and opts in, the new management parameters will be remotely implemented in the counties they choose.\n\n### _Timeline_\n\nAbout a year and a half ago, he said the company decided to go all-in on the Nvidia-based system instead of its existing models, Tarazi said.\n\nIt took some time to wrangle the open-source model and various data sources into something usable, which formed the basis of Federated’s network planning tool it launched in March. That uses the same underlying system as the Spectrum AI tool to predict the performance of future deployments.\n\nHe said the cable and mobile operator each later came to Federated asking for help optimizing deployments.\n\n“We ran it through the tools that we created for prediction, and realized ‘Wow, we can actually re-optimize the whole thing with the same tools,’” he said. “We ended up figuring out that there is a real value of creating an optimizer.”\n\nThe company said it was focused on improving CBRS and 6 Ghz ecosystem, but could envision using a similar tool for other shared or unlicensed bands in the future. Tarazi said the company was working on bringing more data in for companies to evaluate the financial potential of future deployments.",
  "title": "Federated Looking to Boost CBRS Capacity",
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-09T21:47:59.300Z"
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