Fiber + ngFWA = The Best Recipe for BEAD

The BEAD program is an incredible, once-in-a-generation opportunity for America. Unfortunately, choosing the right access technology approaches in BEAD implementations to ensure success is a real challenge. Fiber is great, but often too expensive to deploy reliably in digital-divide areas. Well-known fixed wireless alternatives (satellites or repurposed 3GPP mobile and unlicensed Wi-Fi tech) have inadequate performance or are outright disqualified by rule.

Fortunately, the now well-proven high performance, ease of deployment, and compelling network economics of Tarana’s G1 next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) platform can make BEAD program goals truly achievable within the boundaries of available funds.