Master-planned communities are redefining how Americans live, work, and play. Destinations like Lake Nona in Orlando let residents do all three without ever leaving the development. As more master developers embrace the smart-community model, one truth comes into focus: a smart community is only as smart as the telecom infrastructure underneath it. Smart cameras, autonomous shuttles, intelligent lighting, and community-wide Wi-Fi all sit on top of a converged stack — macro tower coverage and distributed small cells for ubiquitous wireless, fiber to every building and home for capacity and low latency, and an on-site edge data center to compute close to where the data is generated.
Join this Digital Infrastructure to Enable Smart Communities webinar for a walk-through of the infrastructure that makes a smart community actually smart: what each layer does, how the layers integrate, and what master developers and their technology partners need to plan for upfront so connectivity scales with the rest of the community vision.
SPEAKER:
Piyush Raj, VP, Connectivity Solution, SBA Communications Corporation
Piyush Raj is Vice President, Connectivity Solutions at SBA Communications, where he leads the company's Connectivity Solutions business, partnering with building owners, developers, andmunicipalities to design and deploy neutral host wireless and fiber infrastructure. He also serves asa Board Member at Andorix, a next-generation in-building connectivity platform.
With more than 20 years in the wireless industry, Raj has built a track record of commercializing emerging technologies (including CBRS), forming strategic industry alliances, and scaling new lines of business. Before joining SBA, he spent nine years at American Tower, most recently as SeniorDirector of Technology Innovation, and earlier in engineering and network planning roles withwireless carriers.
Raj holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, an M.S. in Computer Science (Networking and Telecommunications) from The University of Texas at Dallas, and a Bachelor of Engineering from MANIT in India.
