Shared infrastructure should not mean shared conflict.
FederateWave was born from a simple observation: as wireless spectrum becomes densely shared across cable operators, ISPs, and enterprises, interference disputes are inevitable. Yet every platform we saw for managing these disputes involved bilateral negotiation, manual war rooms, and vendors taking sides.
We built FederateWave on the conviction that operators deserve a platform that holds no allegiances, imposes no vendor lock-in, and operates by cryptographic guarantee rather than trust. Our mission is to make cooperative interference resolution as automatic and universally relied upon as DNS resolution — invisible when working, globally expected, and structurally neutral by design.
Three operators, one spectrum-sharing nightmare, and a whiteboard.
FederateWave's founding team met in 2022 while working on a multi-tenant spectrum deployment across three cable markets in California. The region had four major operators sharing overlapping frequencies in DOCSIS 3.1 upstream, CBRS, and unlicensed bands. Every interference incident required a war room call that could stretch across two days of back-and-forth negotiation.
We realized that what was needed wasn't better negotiation tools, but a fundamentally different architecture — one that automated detection, correlation, and proposal generation, then let operators vote on outcomes through an open, verifiable protocol. We sketched the first version of the quorum gateway on a whiteboard over coffee in a San Francisco café.
Three months of development led to a private beta with 12 operators. Within six weeks, interference resolution times dropped from 19 days to 4 hours. We knew we were onto something. We incorporated FederateWave in Q3 2023 and have been scaling globally ever since.
Four principles guide every decision we make.
No operator gains platform privilege. Quorum governance distributes authority structurally. Our code is open to audit. Our gateway infrastructure is geographically distributed and operator-run, never vendor-controlled. We take this seriously because we know that if any operator perceives bias, they'll revert to bilateral negotiation and we've failed.
Anonymized identifiers and zero-knowledge proofs ensure no tenant data ever crosses another tenant boundary in raw form. Operators can't reverse-engineer competitor topologies or configurations. Device discovery happens over privacy-preserving protocols. We use cryptographic hashing, not just contractual promises.
Core protocol specifications and adapter interfaces are published as open standards, encouraging ecosystem-wide participation. We don't lock APIs behind IP. Operators can audit our mediation algorithms and challenge our classifications. We participate in IEEE standards bodies and regulatory working groups.
RF engineers, distributed systems researchers, and spectrum policy veterans.
Our founding team comes from carrier network operations (Comcast, Charter, CenturyLink), academic radio frequency research (Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley RF labs), and open-source distributed ledger development (Ethereum, Hyperledger). We have deployed infrastructure in CBRS GAA environments, contributed to IEEE 802.11 working groups, authored three peer-reviewed papers on spectrum sharing, and built consensus protocols used in production financial systems managing billions in daily volume.
We are 18 full-time engineers as of January 2026, hiring for senior RF engineers, compliance specialists, and solution architects. We operate quorum infrastructure across three continents and support tenants in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Our team is diverse by design — we believe that building fair, neutral systems requires diverse perspectives and lived experiences. Gender, background, and national origin do not determine who thrives here. Excellence and humility do.
FederateWave team at our San Francisco office
Annual team offsite in Yosemite
Building in public, learning in real time.
Q3 2022: Founding team meets during multi-tenant spectrum deployment crisis. Initial problem identified: no platform exists for neutral, automated interference mediation.
Q4 2022 – Q1 2023: First prototype built. Quorum gateway architecture designed. Private alpha with 3 operators in California markets.
Q2 2023: Series Seed funding ($2.5M) closes. Team expands from 4 to 9. Observer tier launches publicly.
Q3 2023: FederateWave Inc. incorporated. Mediator tier (full AI-driven mediation) launches. 12 operators in beta. First 100M events mediated.
Q1 2024: Arbitrator tier (enterprise with dedicated quorum clusters) launches. Expansion into Europe and Asia-Pacific. Series A funding ($12M) closes.
Q4 2024: 4.8B events mediated. 340+ active tenants. 99.99% uptime on Arbitrator tier. Partnership announcements with major industry standards bodies.
Q1 2026 (today): ISO 27001 certification achieved. GDPR and CCPA fully compliant. Enterprise deployments across 12 countries. Series B fundraising in progress.
We believe in building trust through structural transparency.
We publish our uptime and incident reports monthly. Our mediation algorithms can be audited by any operator. Our cryptographic protocols are peer-reviewed. We maintain a public security policy and submit to annual third-party penetration testing. We participate in regulatory comment periods on CBRS and unlicensed spectrum rules. We support open-source development of RF simulation tools used to train our interference detection models.
We also acknowledge our limitations. Spectrum mediation is a hard problem. We get interference classifications wrong sometimes. Our allocation algorithms can't optimize for every operator's business constraints. When we fail, we say so publicly, we share the root cause, and we iterate. This radical transparency isn't nice-to-have — it's the foundation of the trust that makes our platform work.
If you have security concerns, regulatory questions, or want to audit our systems, reach out directly. We take these conversations seriously. Email [email protected] to connect with our security and compliance teams.