The OnGo Alliance, a leading industry association focused on advancing mobile broadband technology and services in the 3.5 GHz CBRS band, gathered this week in Chicago for their twice-annual members meeting. A highlight of the event was Tuesday night’s 4th annual OnGo Alliance Awards ceremony, recognizing companies that made significant contributions to the OnGo ecosystem over the past year.
The awards span several categories, celebrating everything from groundbreaking technical achievements to successful real-world deployments unlocking the potential of CBRS spectrum sharing. A new category, Excellence in Device Innovation, was created to recognize “creative and impactful applications of OnGo technology that demonstrate exceptional innovation in shared spectrum utilization.”
As OnGo solutions gain momentum across manufacturing, hospitality, education, and more industries, these awards spotlight the trailblazers driving adoption and innovation.
The 2024 winners include:
- Pente Networks (with Baicells and Local2U) won the Excellence in a WISP OnGo Deployment award for providing fixed wireless broadband connectivity to underserved areas of West Virginia using a CBRS-based network solution.
- John Deere (with Multi-Tech Systems and Nokia) received the Excellence in an Enterprise OnGo Private Network Deployment award for deploying a private CBRS network across factories in Illinois and Iowa to enable process automation, IoT connectivity, video analytics, and wireless mobility.
- JMA Wireless (with Sherpa 6, Druid Software, and Dell Technologies) won Excellence in OnGo Technology Innovation for their open RAN-based nomadic private 5G mobile network solution designed for military battalion deployments. JMA Wireless is the only company to win an OnGo award each year it’s been offered, previously garnering recognition for Technology Innovation, Education Deployment, Municipality/Smart City, and Service Delivery.
- Blue Arcus (with Leax, coreNOC, and New J) took home the OnGo in State, Local, and Education award for a private 4G/5G network, increasing internet access, telehealth services, and public safety in rural Washington.
- Druid Software (with Kajeet) won the OnGo Neutral Host Architecture/Solution award for a multi-operator campus network using CBRS, ensuring seamless mobile coverage for a large university community.
- CTS received the Device Innovation award for SiteNet, a modular CBRS/Wi-Fi communication system enhancing productivity and safety at construction sites. CTS won in the category of Excellence in an OnGo Neutral Host Architecture/Solution last year.
- The Judge’s Choice award went to InfiniG (with Cox) for their neutral host-as-a-service solution extending public cellular coverage indoors using shared CBRS spectrum at Arizona State University.
“As a judge for this year’s OnGo Alliance awards, I was tremendously impressed by the maturity and diversity of CBRS use cases we evaluated,” said Ashish Jain, CEO at KAIROS Pulse and co-founder of PrivateLTEand5G.com. “The submissions showcased how OnGo delivers real business value across multiple verticals. We saw compelling private LTE & 5G networks optimizing industrial connectivity, enabling seamless mobility experiences for enterprises, and enhancing fixed wireless access in underserved areas. These deployments’ innovative spirit and tangible ROI underscores CBRS’s disruptive potential. OnGo’s ecosystem has made remarkable progress relatively quickly, and these awards are well-deserved recognition of that momentum.”
As the OnGo Alliance awards demonstrate, the CBRS ecosystem continues rapidly advancing and delivering novel use cases that unlock immense value across industries. This year’s winners showcase the creative and impactful ways OnGo technology is being leveraged – from enabling private 5G networks for industrial automation and mobility, extending seamless cellular coverage in enterprise venues, and bridging the digital divide with fixed wireless broadband in underserved areas.
The awards also spotlight pioneering innovations like breakthrough neutral host solutions that allow venues to offer enhanced in-building cellular connectivity. As CBRS deployments proliferate, these trailblazers are paving the way for further advances in spectrum utilization, network performance, and next-generation application possibilities.
With the awards ceremony capping highlighting a productive member’s meeting, it’s clear the OnGo Alliance’s collaborative efforts are rapidly driving shared spectrum into the mainstream. CBRS’s momentous impact across the wireless landscape will only accelerate from here as use cases and ecosystem members continue expanding. The 2024 award winners represent the vanguard of this transformation, and their accomplishments provide an exciting glimpse into OnGo’s boundless potential.
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