Celona Presents at Mobility Field Day 13

What’s New at Celona – The Celona Whole Product Offer

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Mehmet Yavuz provides a recap of Celona’s growth over the past year, including customer and partner expansion across the globe, the release of Celona Aerloc security architecture, the launch of our Celona Frequency Community, and the expansion of Celona Neutral Host with AT&T.

In his presentation at Mobility Field Day 13, Celona CTO Mehmet Yavuz highlighted the company’s movement in scaling its private 5G solutions worldwide. He emphasized Celona’s focus on providing a turnkey enterprise-centric 5G LAN offering that contrasts with traditional operator-first network solutions. Celona’s platform, comprising edge OS, radios, and a cloud-based orchestrator, has enabled large-scale industrial deployments that demand reliable, high-power outdoor coverage and seamless mobility for mission-critical devices such as AMRs and AGVs. These capabilities have supported industries such as refineries, ports, and logistics centers where traditional connectivity solutions fall short.

Yavuz outlined Celona’s expansion not just in the U.S. but globally, as CBRS-like spectrum access and strategic operator partnerships open doors in regions such as Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia. Celona’s collaboration with major global systems integrators like Capgemini and the addition of AT&T to their neutral host offering demonstrate the company’s commitment to integrating into both carpeted and industrial enterprise environments. He also introduced the Celona Aerloc security feature, which allows for deeper firewall integration and enhanced enterprise-grade security.

A notable highlight of the presentation was the launch of the Celona Frequency Community, which is an initiative to foster collaboration and knowledge-sharing among leading customers and partners about the evolution of private wireless. Dubbed the “frequency freaks,” this community aims to discuss real-world deployment challenges and emerging use cases. Looking ahead, Celona continues to innovate with its Orion AI-driven lifecycle management platform and ageless enterprise solutions that simplify on-premise footprints–addressing direct customer demands. Though the session was time-limited, the presentation conveyed a clear trajectory of rapid growth, product maturity, and a focus on scalable, intelligent connectivity.

Personnel: Mehmet Yavuz

Celona Neutral Host – Reliable Performance in the Real World

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Mehmet and Vanlin present an overview of Celona Neutral Host, describe the benefits of a neutral host model, and demonstrate performance results at our Stanford Health Care deployment.

In this presentation, Celona CTO Mehmet Yavuz and Director of Research Vanlin Sathya outlined how Celona’s Neutral Host solution addresses the growing problem of poor indoor public cellular coverage, which is being exacerbated by higher-frequency 5G bands and energy-efficient building materials that block signals. Enterprises are increasingly dependent on consistent mobile connectivity for staff, customers, and critical applications like E911, making reliable indoor cellular essential. Celona’s solution now supports both T-Mobile and AT&T and features cloud-managed, dual 4G/5G access points (AP20) operating over CBRS, enabling rapid and cost-effective deployments without the complexity of traditional distributed antenna systems (DAS).

The speakers highlighted three main customer scenarios: new building projects, DAS replacement or upgrades, and buildings previously underserved due to cost or size. They emphasized how Celona’s turnkey model streamlines the onboarding process with operators and automates provisioning, helping customers go from interest to service activation within weeks. The system integrates with existing IT infrastructure, including switches, firewalls, and policy servers, while supporting a wide range of devices from smartphones to scanners and medical equipment. The healthcare sector, in particular, has become a strong use case, with deployments like Stanford Health Care demonstrating significant improvements in signal coverage and reliability compared to legacy DAS and Wi-Fi setups.

Through real-world deployment data and performance comparisons, the presentation demonstrated that Celona’s Neutral Host consistently outperforms macro signals, Wi-Fi, and DAS in terms of coverage, throughput, and voice quality, especially in loaded and mobile scenarios. In a live demo, Celona’s APs delivered reliable signal strength across hospital floors, elevators, and critical care areas, enabling seamless roaming and robust voice services. The synergy between neutral host capabilities and private 5G functions allows healthcare customers to solve immediate connectivity issues while laying the foundation for advanced applications like staff communications, patient monitoring, and IPTV, all without overloading the Wi-Fi network. This dual-purpose infrastructure is quickly proving to be a transformative investment for enterprise environments.

Personnel: Mehmet Yavuz, Vanlin Sathya

Celona New Edgeless Architecture – Streamline On-Premises Footprint for Scale

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Puneet provides an overview of our next breakthrough in Private 5G design — the “Edgeless” architecture, and MJ delivers a killer demonstration.

In this Mobility Field Day 13 session, Puneet Shetty introduced Celona’s new “Edgeless” architecture, a significant evolution in private 5G deployment aimed at reducing complexity and hardware overhead for enterprise customers. Traditionally, private 5G setups required on-premises appliances to host core services, resulting in racks of hardware and a heavier deployment model. Celona had already simplified this with a centralized Edge appliance, but the team identified that even this created friction. The Edgeless architecture eliminates the need for that appliance by redistributing essential services directly onto the access points and into the cloud. Critical data path functions, including L2/L3 integration and firewall/NAC interfacing, remain on-site at the access point, while cloud-based services handle control plane and spectrum management.

MJ demonstrated the new deployment model live, showcasing a fully functioning private 5G network powered by nothing more than a single PoE++-powered Celona access point plugged into a standard Ethernet connection. The hardware was designed with sufficient processing power to handle the additional microservices now required locally. This controllerless model echoes the familiar evolution of enterprise Wi-Fi, which transitioned from centralized controllers to fully cloud-managed, autonomous access points. The goal is to offer the same level of simplicity and scalability to private cellular networks, enabling quick deployment without additional on-premises infrastructure.

Celona expects this architecture to be especially attractive to large distributed enterprises managing numerous sites, each requiring just a few access points for coverage. By eliminating the need for local appliances, the Edgeless model simplifies management, cuts deployment timelines, and reduces friction without compromising security or performance. While advanced use cases like high-speed mobility may still warrant appliance-based edge deployments, the new architecture significantly broadens Celona’s addressable market. It aligns private 5G with the ease of Wi-Fi, and early customer feedback suggests growing interest and adoption. As Shetty noted, many potential clients are already delaying POCs to wait for Edgeless availability, viewing it as the future of enterprise private wireless.

Personnel: Mark Jimenez, Puneet Shetty

Celona Orchestrator with AI – Automated Service Management

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Puneet delivers an overview and a demonstration of how Celona is applying AI to automate network operation tasks, from bringup to monitoring to troubleshooting and remediation.

Puneet Shetty and Mark Jimenez present how Celona is integrating AI into its Celona Orchestrator platform to automate network operations, from deployment to monitoring and troubleshooting. They demonstrate how a minimal private 5G LAN setup, consisting of an access point, connected devices, and cloud components—can be brought online with minimal infrastructure. The goal is to simplify deployment by eliminating the need for a local edge device and integrating core network functions directly into the access point. This design reduces friction and complexity, enabling rapid setup and data routing with local breakout capability, all managed through Celona Orchestrator.

During the live demonstration, two devices, a Zebra TC78 and an iPhone 16 Pro, are connected to the Celona access point to illustrate service provisioning and connectivity monitoring. The devices initially receive IP addresses from Celona’s default range, but the demo shows how Celona Orchestrator can dynamically change device profiles to integrate with enterprise DHCP services, providing corporate-assigned IPs. This local breakout approach means data traffic remains within the enterprise network, avoiding latency and privacy concerns associated with public cellular providers. The presenters also show system resiliency by temporarily disconnecting the WAN, demonstrating that the network quickly recovers with minimal disruption.

In discussing broader deployment implications, Shetty highlights how private 5G networks are gaining traction in industries like oil and gas, manufacturing, and logistics, particularly for outdoor environments or critical applications requiring high reliability. Celona has streamlined eSIM provisioning using MDM and APIs, allowing zero-touch deployments at scale, essential for managing hundreds or thousands of devices. The session also addresses spectrum availability worldwide, noting that while CBRS is unique to the US, similar enterprise-use spectrum bands are increasingly available globally. Celona’s strategy includes partnerships with operators to facilitate international deployments, and in the US, their use of the SAS system ensures reliable and coordinated spectrum usage even in dense industrial areas.

Personnel: Mark Jimenez, Puneet Shetty

What’s Next for Celona – Bigger, Better, Faster Next-Gen RAN

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Mehmet shows how all these previous elements come together in our platform, and provides a glimpse into what to expect from Celona over the next year, including our next-generation RAN portfolio.

At Mobility Field Day 13, Celona introduced “Orion,” a major advancement in AI-based automation for private 5G networks. Orion is designed to oversee the entire network lifecycle, from deployment and configuration to ongoing operations and troubleshooting. Drawing on data from over 150 customer deployments, Celona is feeding real-world issue patterns and internal troubleshooting playbooks into Orion’s AI engine. This enables the platform to automatically detect network anomalies, conduct root cause analysis, and either recommend or autonomously implement remediation steps. Orion’s integration into the Celona Orchestrator, displayed as a Kanban-style interface, allows real-time tracking of issue resolution–shifting more tasks from human-led to machine-led.

The system handles a wide variety of scenarios, including interference issues, DHCP failures, SIM misconfigurations, and security anomalies like unauthorized device swaps. Orion evaluates network performance from multiple angles–device, access point, frequency–and flags relevant issues with contextual analysis and resolution pathways. Celona emphasizes that this automation isn’t a static product but a dynamic capability that will evolve to eventually include design (day -1), provisioning (day 0), and full operational (day N) automation. Feedback from early customers has been strong, and Orion already supports both private and enterprise network troubleshooting, integrating with external systems like ServiceNow for enhanced workflow automation.

Looking ahead, Mehmet Yavuz outlined Celona’s innovation pipeline, highlighting commercial readiness of the Azure-based architecture and a new, enterprise-friendly two-node high-availability Kubernetes model. The company is also investing in Zero Trust IT/OT security with enhanced features like Airlock and expanding its global footprint via partnerships with regional operators. A major focus is Celona’s next-generation RAN, which continues their all-in-one AP design philosophy with integrated 4G/5G modems and onboard compute for local breakout and edge processing. This new RAN promises higher bandwidth, 4×4 MIMO, improved timing precision, and simpler installation with features like internal GPS. Celona remains committed to delivering a plug-and-play private cellular solution that matches the simplicity of Wi-Fi while advancing enterprise-grade capabilities.

Personnel: Mehmet Yavuz