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Celona is folding Wi-Fi 7, private 5G, public cellular and satellite into one AI-managed platform, targeting the complexity, cost and device shortages that have held back enterprise wireless adoption.<\/p>\n
In sum \u2013 what to know:<\/p>\n
Wi-Fi and 5G converge \u2013 Celona\u2019s new Orion bundle introduces Wi-Fi 7 access points into the private 5G mix, plus public cellular and satellite, and positions Celona also against established Wi-Fi vendors and not just the legacy telco set.<\/p>\n
AI takes complexity out \u2013 The firm\u2019s new Orchestrator AI platform uses Celona\u2019s net-ops AI agents and AI model to automate configuration, provisioning, diagnosis and remediation for faster 5G\/Wi-Fi deployments and simpler management.<\/p>\n
Physical AI ecosystem \u2013 New open-source AerConnect initiative will provide software and developer kits for robotics and IoT makers, with Digi and Telit first up, embedding multi-network connectivity into industrial devices.<\/p>\n
In one go, US private 5G specialist Celona has released a rush of AI integrations and upgrades, plus a new Wi-Fi product line, to solve a trio of problems that have dogged the sector since day one, and which are now rated as critical as enterprises seek to upgrade their comms systems to run physical AI applications: enterprise Wi-Fi versus private 5G, and how to bankroll a brand new system; inherent 5G radio complexity for enterprise IT teams; and a fundamental lack of compatible industrial 5G devices. With the launch, Celona has effectively extricated itself from a straight fight with legacy telco vendors like Nokia and Ericsson in an enterprise market where they hardly exist, to do battle with legacy Wi-Fi vendors like Cisco and HPE in a market where they already thrive. Or so it seems.<\/p>\n
Celona tells it a little differently. But first the news: Celona has introduced a new line of Wi-Fi 7 access points to be bundled with its private 5G solution and integrated with its network-operations (net-ops) platform as a converged system, nominally for new agentic AI and physical AI workloads in industrial (and \u201csemi-industrial\u201d) enterprises. The solution has been rebranded as Celona Orion (from Celona 5G LAN); its cloud-based management platform (Celona Orchestrator) is being offered alternatively as an all-agentic system called Orchestrator AI. The firm\u2019s new line of Wi-Fi 7 access points are Celona-made, like its 5G radios (designed in-house, manufactured by third parties) and are available on the same Orion subscription \u2013 \u201cat no additional cost\u201d officially, as a major \u201cvalue prop\u201d besides.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Public cellular and satellite comms (Starlink, at least; for backhaul at remote and temporary \u2018campus\u2019 sites) can be managed on the same platform, as well. Orchestrator AI, billed as an \u201cagentic OS for converged wireless\u201d, is now riddled with AI net-ops trickery to simplify converged Wi-Fi and 5G management for stretched industrial IT teams. It \u201cpackages\u201d a set of agentic tools, presented as \u201cskills\u201d, into an enterprise\u2019s preferred LLM (\u201cClaude or ChatGPT, or whatever\u201d) to work with a custom net-ops AI model in the platform, called Celona Brain, which codifies its in-house\u00a0 engineering and deployment knowhow to \u201cconfigure, provision, diagnose, and fix\u201d its networks for enterprise workloads. These agents\/skills also \u201ccollaborate with other agents across the\u2026 enterprise\u201d, says Celona.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The firm has something else, a little vague (listening back), called an \u201cagent playground\u201d, which may or may not refer to the reach across the agentic enterprise, that goes to \u201cdefine workflows between humans and agents\u201d. Besides, it is to release open-source software and developer kits, also agent-based, to robotics and IoT makers to embed 5G and Wi-Fi (and satellite) into modules. The initiative is called AerConnect. Digi International and Telit Cinterion will be the first with the new kits. On a call, Rajeev Shah, co-founder and chief, said: \u201cIt allows them to use all the networks \u2013 on any infrastructure. It is not restricted. It is a genuine [acknowledgement] there is a gap in the market \u2013 where devices don\u2019t have the capabilities. We want to be a part of the solution, to grow the market by plugging the gap.\u201d<\/p>\n