Densification is more than small cells. Or DAS. Or Wi-Fi. The demand to carry more traffic, to more device types, with more reliability and lower latency creates the need for networks that not only have a higher density of RAN access points, but that...
A conversation about densification with Ken Sandfeld, president of SOLiD America
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Most of large venues have indoor infrastructure. The...
A conversation about densification and small cells with Nivi Thadasina, senior director of 5G and 4G engineering at Samsung Electronics America
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Connected to the Yahoo hack, can users protect themselves from future attacks and will it affect the sale to Verizon/AOL?
I think you’d have to have been living in a cave if you didn’t see any online news stories or live TV news broadcasts about...
A conversation about interference with Tom Elliott, Sr. Product Manager, Anritsu
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Interference identification and management in dense, multilayer networks...
A conversation about densification with Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu, senior researcher at DOCOMO Innovations
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Densification changes the intercell site dynamics. We...
A conversation about densification with Andy Sutton, principal network architect at BT
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Andy Sutton, principal network architect at BT,...
Software again reigns supreme as Apple iWork real-time collaboration is the start of something very important for the enterprise
There certainly was a lot of interesting news from the recent Apple product launch. While the hardware seems to always get the headlines, it’s most often...
How does a densified network change the way carriers test their networks? We discussed this topic with Jeremy Cline, North America Product Manager, and Rob Wattenburg, North America SwissQual Business Director.
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5G, smart cities and IoT were significant themes at the recent CTIA Super Mobility 2016 event and collocated Tower and Small Cell Summit
At CTIA Super Mobility 2016, the entire expo floor was transformed into a fully connected smart city with the entire wireless...
A conversation about densification with a Director of Network Architecture and Strategy at a US-based global manufacturing and retail corporation
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Densified networks are necessary to support increasing traffic loads with the current spectrum allowances. The webinar will assess multiple densification strategies: indoor vs. outdoor; public spaces vs. enterprise; small cells vs. DAS; contribution of carrier Wi-Fi of LTE unlicensed and LWA; neutral-host and infrastructure-sharing...
Traditional TV broadcast generates the most viewers, but video streaming to mobile devices is growing fast
The recently held Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were certainly very exciting with out-of-this-world performances by Michael Phelps, Katie Ladecky, Simone Biles and Usain Bolt just to name...
Innovation in cellular and other supporting technologies as well as in applications will sustain the rate of smartphone improvements
Press and industry analyst response to the recent announcement of the iPhone 7 has been lukewarm. For example, The Economist notes the “main novelty” is it...
Cities across the world face significant challenges stemming from urbanization, demographic change, changing lifestyles and climate change. These challenges, which have ushered in a focus on smart cities and enabling technologies, are illustrated in the UN-Habitat’s World Cities Report for 2016:
Urbanization: The urban...
Recent unlimited data moves from T-Mobile US and Sprint garnered headlines, but don’t expect them to impact churn
The wireless industry in the U.S. recently got all excited – again – about a new range of unlimited plans from T-Mobile US and Sprint. Just as...
The automotive industry is working hard to integrate technology to make the self-driving experience safer and more enjoyable
Earlier this year I wrote about the coming full autonomous vehicle that could be summoned as needed and drive us without a steering wheel was, perhaps, a...
A conversation about DAS and Wi-Fi with James Hammond, Director of Information Technology, Carolina Panthers, and Kevin Schmonsees, CTO, Beam Wireless
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Want to put cellular coverage maps to the test? Take a trip out west
Mobile operators are good at providing coverage maps with lots of bright colors that show extensive coverage across the U.S. In their advertising, they usually flash the maps up for a...
Increased software and services for the tablet market will drive long-term growth
If you look at the last few of Apple’s quarterly reports, it consistently shows the sales of the iPad have been falling from the quarter a year preceding. Thus, the sales of the...
Recent activity from Ericsson and Nokia shows a trough of 4G to 5G migration that is causing pain for all wireless technology providers
These days it’s really tough being a technology supplier to the wireless operators. In the past few weeks, both Ericsson and Nokia,...
A conversation about testing with Todd Cotts, product marketing manager at Ascom Network Testing
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Testing and monitoring in densified networks...
With Verizon acquiring the operating business of Yahoo, the final chapter in the life of a past internet superstar as an independent company has been completed
Back in the late '90s, I started and chaired a company called PortableLife, which was headed by Lou Panetta....
Compass Intelligence takes an in-depth look into the latest quarterly results from Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint, and calls for more IoT insight
Compass Intelligence just completed the final assessment of second-quarter subscribers and connections including comparisons to the first quarter of 2016, in terms of performance...
