Casa Systems is best known in the cable industry, but it has been building on its experience in fixed wireless access (FWA) to develop a 5G offering that will target WISPs and mobile operators (as well as, no doubt, the cable customers that expand into 5G fixed/mobile services in future). A week after it worked with Qualcomm and Ericsson to demonstrate the longest ever distance for a 5G data call in millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum, it has announced a CPE (customer premise equipment) unit for 5G FWA-enabled home broadband. The data call, in 400 MHz of spectrum, was designed to test how far the distance covered by fixed 5G signals in mmWave – with its notoriously short range – could…