RCR Wireless News takes a deep dive into the current small cell space as it relates to LTE deployments, talking with carriers, analysts and equipment and technology providers on how the market is currently playing out and where they expect the market to be headed in the coming 12 months. The report tackles the subject [...]

BroadSoft recently released a global survey of worker attitudes toward mobile unified communications, showing that users are not just willing to adopt UC solutions, but demanding them. In a video interview, Leslie Ferry, Broadsoft’s VP of marketing, explained that this attitude is due to the change in mobility at work. She also noted that LTE [...]

Companies are changing their business processes to take advantage of mobile and consumer technologies in the workplace. Avanade’s latest global study of consumer and mobile technologies’ impact on enterprises shows that 71% of companies have changed at least one business process and 20% have changed four or more business processes. This new trend was one [...]

How can IT departments quickly support new devices brought in by employees? How can IT teams allow users to adopt these devices within their existing infrastructures? Addressing many of these questions, Opus Research recently published a report noting five rules for survival in the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era. The report and the challenges raised by BYOD [...]

Forget about the convergence of telecommunications, enterprise communications and information technology. We are entering the era of multi-industry convergence according to Fernando Belfort, team leader for IT at Frost & Sullivan. ”Seventy-five percent of disruptive innovation is generated in the white spaces between industries,” Belfort said. Still, the question remains: how to monetize emerging opportunities? Discussing [...]

Cable and Antenna Test: Introduces measurement and calibration techniques for cable and antenna testing (CAT). Measurement examples are provided for cable insertion loss, return loss, VSWR and distance-to-fault (DTF) testing. Antenna measurements are also discussed and several examples of return loss and antenna-to-antenna isolation are provided. This white paper is presented by Agilent Technologies.

It is no secret that financial institutions, along with telecom companies, are heavy information technology (IT) users, spending more on IT, including software, hardware and services, than other firms. This year won’t be any different. Two recently released surveys point out that banks’ IT spending is increasing worldwide. Ovum forecasts that retail banks spending on [...]

Oracle agreed to acquire Acme Packet, which makes network solutions to deliver voice, video, data and unified communications services and applications across IP networks. Under the agreement, Oracle will pay $29.25 per share in cash representing a fully diluted equity value of $2.1 billion. Net of cash this represents an enterprise value of $1.7 billion. [...]

Mobile technologies ranked second among CIOs’ top 10 technology priorities for 2013. The first priority was analytics and business intelligence solutions, according to the latest Gartner executive program survey. The survey shows that CIOs’ agendas are dominated by digital technologies, and CIOs see these technologies as disrupting business fundamentally over the next ten years. Gartner [...]

Enterprise adoption of cloud computing has been a game-changer for those that know how to take advantage of hosting data in the cloud. Now companies are moving beyond cloud experimentation to broader-based implementations. In addition, the cloud computing market has been impacted by vendor alliances, such as AT&T/IBM and Sprint/CSC. According to the research firm [...]