The majority of emergency calls now come from wireless phones, but the people calling for help are difficult to find based on carrier-provided location information, according to a recent survey of …
Kelly Hill
Kelly Hill
Kelly Hill reports on network test and measurement, AI infrastructure and regulatory issues, including spectrum, for RCR Wireless News. She began covering the wireless industry in 2005, focusing on carriers and MVNOs, then took a few years’ hiatus and returned to RCR Wireless News to write about heterogeneous networks (remember those?) and network infrastructure. Kelly is an Ohio native with a masters degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on science writing and multimedia. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Oregonian and The Canton Repository. She lives in northern Virginia, not far from Data Center Alley.
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Nuage Networks says it has conducted 30 successful trials of network virtualization around the world in the past year, and that its initial focus on the data center environment is …
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The controversy over over-the-air testing standards – or lack thereof – for LTE MIMO, as well as cost and complexity, are some of the major issues in OTA testing today. …
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Wireless connectivity and distributed antenna provider TE Connectivity reported a strong second quarter performance, with net sales up 6% year-over-year to $3.43 billion. The company’s orders and sales were up …
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Verizon’s annual examination of data breaches around the world found that most of the 100,000 security incidents over the past 10 years fall into one of nine patterns — and …
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Amdocs has released its latest State of the Radio Access Network survey, and the numbers show that data absolutely dominates mobile networks, accounting for 98% of traffic — and that …
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This week in small cell, distributed antenna system and Wi-Fi news: — Time Warner Cable has added HotSpot 2.0 technology on most of the Wi-Fi access points in its national …
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The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless looks weekly at the test and measurement space to …
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Wedge Networks has a new software-based security solution that it says delivers on the promises of software-defined networking (SDN): cheaper infrastructure costs, easy scalability, and performance similar to hardware-based offerings. …
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Voice over LTE has been one of the most highly anticipated network features to come along in recent years. As it stands, LTE is only used for data services, with …
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As fourth-generation wireless technology has been rolled out, lessons learned during previous deployments have been invaluable. Lou LaMedica, former director of Verizon Wireless’ device evaluation lab in New Jersey, told …
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—Comcast said its Xfinity Wi-Fi network now contains one million hotspots around the country, including its outdoor hotspots, hotspots for patrons at enterprises that Comcast includes for free with its business …
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The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless looks weekly at the test and measurement space to …
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Long Term Evolution is indeed turning out to be a technology with a long lifespan, and the telecom industry is only in the early stages of mining the benefits of …
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Report: Infrastructure, including telecom, shapes real estate investment
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillA new report from the Urban Land Institute and EY says that telecommunications infrastructure is one of the top factors that influence decisions on real estate investment and development around the …
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Gogo Inc. said today that it will begin rolling out Wi-Fi service on Air Canada’s entire North American fleet next month. The airline already has two Wi-Fi equipped aircraft, Airbus …
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AT&T has expanded its contract with Transit Wireless to bring wireless voice and data coverage to more New York City subway stations. The two companies have already worked together on …
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EXFO Inc. has purchased the assets of privately-held software company ByteSphere LLC, which focuses on global IT management and network monitoring. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to …
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Radisys Corp. and Broadcom have worked together on an integrated software and chip solution FDD and TDD-LTE small cells, and the technology will be tested in China in the first half …
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Microsoft has selected testing company Ixia as its official testing house for ensuring that mobile devices meet quality expectations when running the software company’s Lync application. Microsoft Lync is a unified communications …
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–Mobile Experts expects that the small cell market will reach $10 billion in 2018. Joe Madden, principal analyst at the firm, said that the deployment of 200,000 small cells in …
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The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless looks weekly at the test and measurement space to …
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TE Connectivity has agreed to buy Seacon Group, which provides underwater connector technology and systems, for $490 million in cash. The Seacon Group serves verticals that do sub-sea work including …
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Broadcom launched a new chipset series this week with software-defined networking and network functions virtualization in mind. According to the company, the XLP500 series has a “quad-issue, quad-threaded superscalar architecture with …
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Cisco is opening up its IP Cameras platform for safety and security applications in order to allow customers to create their own applications that integrate the company’s security cameras and …