Each outdoor deployment is a learning lab for operators and vendors, and this report digs into the specifics of site acquisition, network design, equipment selection, installation and testing. Metro deployments that are in both the planning phase and the installation phase are discussed, as...
Wi-Fi is a decades-old technology, but it remains as relevant as ever because it continues to evolve in ways that benefit vendors, service providers and their customers. The Wi-Fi Alliance’s 2015 annual report is a convenient opportunity to look back and forward at some of the...
RCR launches an enterprise decision maker's source for insights, analysis, use cases and networking with inaugural sponsors including InterDigirtal, Anritsu and Nokia
Austin, TX – RCR Wireless News, a leading communications industry information, database and marketing services company, has expanded its digital portfolio with the launch of...
Internet of Things VoLTE applications
Voice over LTE, or VoLTE, is in some ways the final frontier for LTE. Most voice calls still use 3G networks, but mobile operators are expected to transition more and more voice service to LTE in the years ahead....
Aiming to reduce Wi-Fi network troubles in the home, Spirent Communications today launched a new Wi-Fi service assurance solution for automating installation and troubleshooting of in-home networks.
Many industry experts expect in-home Wi-Fi networks will start to look more like enterprise networks, with multiple access...
CommScope tapped for Sprint small cell deployment
Sprint has chosen CommScope for a significant indoor small cell deployment designed to support LTE and Wi-Fi. The carrier plans to use CommScope's S1000 small cell, one of the assets CommScope acquired when it bought small cell specialist...
A conversation about expanding voice and video with Gordon Mansfield, VP Radio Access Network and Device Design, AT&T
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Gordon Mansfield, VP Radio...
DOCSIS 3.1 expanding over extensive Comcast copper network
With the buzz around fiber-to-the-home provided by the likes of Google Fiber, Verizon FiOS and AT&T GigaPower, there's a clear trend toward increasing home Internet speeds. But fiber networks are expensive to build, and, at least in...
LTE-Advanced service available in 976 cities across Japan
Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo’s "Premium 4G" service is currently available in 976 cities across Japan, according to a company presentation. The service, which was launched in March 2015, offers downlink speeds of up to 225 megabits...
Washington, D.C., elected officials are considering empaneling a task force to explore provisioning of a public Wi-Fi network geared toward closing the so-called digital divide.
Led by city council member Vincent Orange, there's a meeting set for Wednesday to further discuss putting the task force...
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, in a post to the company's web site, laid out an internal transformation from a PC company to a cloud company poised to support the Internet of Things (IoT) and ultimate commercialization of 5G.
Krzanich laid out five "core beliefs that...
Indoor coverage remains a major issue and Small Cell Forum reports that as many as 61% of enterprises have noticeably poor indoor coverage (I’m sure many of us can relate to that!). With 80% of all traffic happening indoor, the end users desire (and...
A conversation with Michael Campbell, Director of Service Assurance, EXFO
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Ensuring a good voice quality experience with VoLTE requires a robust...
Broadband is changing. It runs at ultra-fast Gigabit speeds and is getting faster and stronger as more companies jump into the new space. Today the leader by far is AT&T GigaPower. They offer ultra-fast Internet in the largest number of markets nationwide to date,...
Wi-Fi standards are focusing not only on faster and more efficient Wi-Fi (although that continues to be part of the standard’s evolution), but in expanding Wi-Fi’s use in different spectra and for specific use cases.
Wi-Fi standards originate with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics...
Multi-user multiple input, multiple output, or MU-MIMO, is an advanced features for 802.11ac Wi-Fi, part of Wave 2 features that are in some cases, already on the market and will start being certified for interoperability by Wi-Fi Alliance soon.
The technology enables multiple devices to...
With the advent of LTE-U and LAA, Wi-Fi may face radical change -- or will it? RCR looks at the status of the ecosystem and its near-term future, from the latest standards work and increasing speeds to the use of Hotspot 2.0/Passpoint for automatic...
Top 5 smartphone makers, American Tower earnings, CWA vs. T-Mobile
1. In another good sign for the U.S. tower industry, American Tower beat Wall Street's expectations with its first quarter earnings report. Total revenue was $1.29 billion and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization...
With the advent of LTE-U and LAA, Wi-Fi may face radical change -- or will it? RCR looks at the status of the Wi-Fi ecosystem and its near-term future, from the latest standards work and increasing speeds to the use of Hotspot 2.0/Passpoint for...
I just returned from the well-organized and well-attended Wi-Fi Now conference in Washington, D.C. Topics at the three-day conference included enterprise applications, home security, innovations, leadership, carriers, spectrum, LTE-U, the "Uber-ization" of the wireless industry and the disruptive role of Wi-Fi. There was less talk about...
The hottest seats in the house at the Wi-Fi Now conference last week were those of the panel members debating the impact of LTE on Wi-Fi as the cellular system moves into unlicensed spectrum at 5 GHz. Wi-Fi Alliance is hosting a workshop today...
Add capacity with off-the-shelf hardware to maximize spectrum resources
Spectrum is an inherently limiting factor to communications service providers; it’s expensive, there’s a finite amount available, and regulation mechanisms can make coordinated spectrum deployments a challenge.
For carriers this means it’s fundamentally important to make the...
With predictions of billions of new devices with wireless connectivity over the coming years, the "Internet of Things" is expected to have a major influence on multiple verticals and consumers' everyday lives. And it turns out that already, everything from dog dishes to stuffed...
Industry leaders discuss the importance of involvement in 5G standards process
There’s a lot of industry excitement around 5G and associated use cases, but, as it stands, there’s still a lot of work to be done in locking down the definitions and features of an...
