Start-up Pivotal Commware has made some interesting moves in advanced antenna beam management, with its ‘holographic beamforming’ technology. It has announced its first public deal with a major operator for its Echo 5G subscriber units, incorporating the beamforming system – which LightReading reports is to Verizon for its 28 GHz network. The Echo 5G is a fixed wireless repeater that can be attached to a window to improve indoor penetration by the millimeter wave signal – something that, by all accounts, will be important to Verizon, which has had very mixed reviews for the quality of its 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) services. The window-based unit harnesses Pivotal’s beamforming to counteract mmWave penetration, reflection and structural shadowing signal losses so…