Worldwide LTE network connections will pass 100 million this week, according to estimates by 4G Americas and Informa Telecoms and Media, with about 57 million of those coming from the United States and Canada. 4G Americas reported that there are now 172 operators in 70 countries with existing LTE networks around the world, in various [...]

Third-generation and “4G” wireless networks are facing a severe capacity crunch caused by massive data demand created by smart phones and tablet devices. Deployment of macrocells will not solve the problem since most of the demand is generated indoors. Service providers are moving towards heterogeneous solutions (3G/4G/Wi-Fi) consisting of a dense network of femtocells, picocells and metrocells [...]

Telecom analytics is one of the most exciting areas in the wireless business. In a very competitive environment, carriers have to give a deeper look at how they manage all data they have in order to give them advantages and monetization opportunities. Information without any intelligence is just data. In this scenario, analytics tools for [...]

A competitive assessment by ABI Research ranked Nokia Siemens Networks first in macro base station vendors, with high scores in ABI’s innovation and implementation categories. Ericsson came in second, but had the best score in the implementation category, with the most LTE deployment contracts and subscriber potential. Alcatel-Lucent ranked third overall, but was ranked the [...]

The explosive growth in smartphones and the proliferating demand for mobile internet and mobile video threatens to overwhelm current network infrastructure and leaves the industry at the cusp of a new frontier. A new kind of wireless network platform is needed that can handle multiple sources, heavy traffic, mixed technologies and can deliver data throughput [...]

Sonus Networks is targeting both service providers and enterprises with two new session border controllers that are designed to simplify network design and add advanced communications features in unified communications environments. In March, the company was noted in an Infonetics Research report as the vendor with the fastest-growing SBC portfolio, gaining an additional 7.3% of the market [...]

Samsung says it has found a way to transmit data in the millimeter-wave frequencies, offering the promise of speeds several hundred times faster than those of current “4G” networks. The company says it has known for years that “5G” communication will require more frequencies, but that until now the millimeter-wave frequencies seemed out of reach [...]

 Ixia announced new products for validating and testing the resiliency of enterprise networks, including the ability to simulate a data center rack of virtualized servers. The company’s new RackSim is an industry first, according to Ixia, and simulates all the complexities of a rack of virtual servers in one box. Virtualization of data centers improves [...]

According to a new report from ABI Research, the evolution toward “4G” networks with flat, distributed architectures has significant market implications as wireless operators seek to improve performance by changing the foundation of how their networks are designed. Traditionally, the approach to mobile networks has been based on a hierarchical and centralized core network, ABI [...]

Aruba Networks, Inc. said that that it expects its revenues for the quarter ended April 30 to fall below its guidance, citing delays in customer orders. “In April, we saw a push out in customer orders across the Americas, Europe and Asia,” said Dominic Orr, president and CEO of Aruba. “We attribute this weakness primarily [...]