Tag Archives: transport communications

Transit Wireless expands cellular connectivity to T-Mobile customers in the Canarsie Tunnel

Additional 5G data and cellular services are now delivered by the wireless infrastructure company on New York’s L-Line Transit Wireless, a BAI Communications company, and leading 5G wireless infrastructure provider, announced today that T-Mobile customers can now access cellular voice and data services in New York City’s Canarsie Tunnel, which connects Manhattan and Brooklyn on the L train service […]

Watch Brendan O’Reilly at 5G Realised talking about how 5G is enabling connected cities

Brendan O’Reilly, Group Chief Technology Officer at BAI Communications, spoke at the 5G Realised Summit about how 5G and advanced technologies are enabling connected cities. In this presentation, Brendan explores three key ideas: Technology supporting cities to be as attractive as possible to live and work in: How 5G connectivity – layered with advanced technologies […]

Working towards a shared vision of smart cities | 5G Live

Brendan O’Reilly, Global Chief Technology Officer at BAI Communications, joined the 5G Live panel “Urban 5G: Working towards a shared vision of smart cities”. He shared his views on collaboration around common objectives and that outcomes are the key to realising the dream of smart cities.

Brendan O’Reilly speaks with Telecom TV on the role of neutral hosts in 5G

Brendan O’Reilly, Global Chief Technology Officer at BAI Communications, speaks at Telecom TV’s 5G Evolution on 13 May 2021. He discusses the role of neutral host operators in the 5G market, including the impact that technological developments such as edge computing and Open RAN will have on the strategies of companies such as BAI. Watch […]

5G marks a definitive shift from competing on coverage to competing on customer experience

The model of shared communications infrastructure is gaining momentum with mobile network operators (MNOs) around the world. The arrival of 5G suggests that the shift away from owning communications infrastructure is now a definite one for towers (a well-established trend over the past decade) and, increasingly, for small cells. On the back of this trend, […]

Improving operational efficiencies during COVID-19

Giving transit operators greater line of sight with Wi-Fi data In 2019, BAI Communications (BAI) developed a solution with the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to monitor station occupancy using anonymized Wi-Fi association data. That technology found an unexpected new purpose with the outbreak of COVID-19, when large crowds suddenly became a public health issue. This […]

The answer is automation

Head of data analytics at BAI Communications in Canada, Jeremy Foran, believes that although automation and machine learning have been the cornerstone of business optimisation, many organisations still underestimate its importance. Read on to understand the business imperative of driving better business operations through automation. It was 2012 in Australia and the stakes were high: […]

Infrastructure in crisis: How P3 can save critical projects in a post-Covid world

Municipal infrastructure development is in crisis. At a time when society is counting on infrastructure essential to the functioning of communities and commerce to get us through the pandemic and its recovery, COVID-19 has left many much-needed projects at risk in its wake. For 2020-2022, the National League of Cities has estimated a USD360 billion […]

BAI Communications successfully tests RADWIN’s mmWave Inter-Carriage link solution, achieving a 1.5Gbps connection between train cars

Source: RADWIN RADWIN, a leading global wireless broadband solutions provider, today announced that BAI Communications (BAI), a designer, builder, and operator of communications infrastructure, successfully attained connectivity speeds of 1.5Gbps between train cars, when testing RADWIN’s TerraBridge Inter-Carriage Link solution on a Toronto subway train. BAI deployed and currently operates a Wi-Fi, cellular and IP network for the Toronto Transit […]

5G and shared infrastructure: the future of public transport connectivity

As the first blog of this series (‘How 5G will transform rail transport’) explored, the next generation of connectivity will deliver advanced network capabilities. These capabilities include 5G wireless and edge computing, which will help provide the connected services people and businesses demand. While most network providers’ 5G deployments have focused on adding more network […]