Cox Partners with Las Vegas to Launch City-Led Managed Private Network

Cox Communications unveiled a new pilot program with the city of Las Vegas to deploy one of the first Managed Private Networks (MPN) launched by a US city to facilitate Smart City use cases. Together, Cox and the city will leverage Citizens' Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) to power Smart City solutions that deliver insights into visitor attendance and after-hours activities at Baker Park through parking lot management, safety detection and trend analytics. The learnings from this pilot will empower Cox and Las Vegas to push the boundaries of how networks of the future can be used to scale and support solutions and services. Leveraging a CBRS private network will allow the city of Las Vegas to ramp up testing and support of smart solutions, beginning with the 12-month pilot program in Baker Park. The network will deliver the private wireless connectivity needed to deploy a myriad of Smart City and lnternet of Things (IoT) solutions. The combination of Cox’s existing fiber network with the city’s infrastructure will accelerate the ability to deploy solutions and will provide an ideal path to a long-term, sustainable solution should the pilot prove successful.