Enterprise demand for Cisco's networking gear is more than offsetting any weakness in the service-provider segment. The company said yesterday that revenue for the most recent quarter was up 7% year-on-year, while net income shot up 67%.
Cisco sold $11.9 billion worth of products and...
Deploying network in Arizona for governmental entities
Cergon Networks on Feb. 11 announced it was awarded a $4.6 million contract to set up a high-capacity wireless network in Arizona designed for intergovernmental communications.
Ceragon, based in Paramus, N.J., will provide telecommunications vendor GovNET with the network,...
Sigfox investment from industry and telcos
Sigfox, which specializes in "Internet of Things" and machine to machine networking, this week announced a round of funding that brought in $115 million.
The company plans to use the new financing to deploy dedicated IoT networks in Europe, Asia...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) has been chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation for less than a month, but is already setting an ambitious telecom policy agenda.
In a speech to the American Enterprise Institute on Jan. 28, Thune...
As carriers around the world work to commercially deploy voice over LTE on a large scale, ZTE on Feb. 9 announced successful completion of VoLTE testing for industry giant China Mobile.
ZTE, which provides telecom equipment and network solutions, used its IP Multimedia Subsystem to...
The rapid spread of smartphones and many new Cloud services in the last decade has led to explosive growth in mobile data traffic. Simultaneously, the new LTE and LTE-Advanced mobile technologies with faster data throughput are driving dramatic increases in mobile data traffic as well, naturally...
C-RAN, fronthaul and HetNets
Senza Fili's new report “Charting the path to RAN virtualization: C-RAN, fronthaul and HetNets” discusses the market trends, operator requirements and technology opportunities driving the transition to a virtualized RAN, through the deployment of C-RAN and fronthaul, and running in parallel to the densification...
Join Monica Paolini, President of Senza Fili Consulting as she discusses the market trends, operator requirements, and technology opportunities driving the transition to a virtualized RAN, through the deployment of C-RAN and fronthaul, and running in parallel to the densification enabled by small cells,...
iBwave certification is becoming table stakes for RF engineers and technicians who want to work on in-building networks. The software was first developed as a way to integrate the various tools used to design and manage distributed antenna systems. Now it has evolved into...
Verizon Wireless, SK Telecom and T-Mobile US visit labs
Ericsson and Qualcomm are testing carrier-grade LTE-U technology that aggregates licensed and unlicensed spectrum to provide a data-speed boost for small cell.
Representatives from major international carriers Verizon Wireless, SK Telecom and T-Mobile US observed LTE-U, sometimes called...
Testing Wi-Fi offers a set of unique challenges in the indoor environment. Azimuth Systems has been working with a large chipset manufacturer on testing new technology that uses Wi-Fi, rather than the Global Positioning System, for locating an end user device.
GPS signals tend not...
Alcatel-Lucent is adding to its LTE small cell portfolio with a new line of outdoor metro cells that feature both Long Term Evolution and Wi-Fi options.
The Compact Metro Cell Outdoor product is already in trials with "a number of operators" globally, according to the vendor,...
T-Mobile and Sprint make marked improvements
Nationwide mobile networks are being improved by carriers and resulting in improved customer experience, according to test and measurement firm Rootmetrics, which picks Verizon as the best carrier in the United States.
Rootmetrics released its “U.S. Mobile Network Performance Review”...
Download the complete report featuring Fujitsu, ASOCS, SOLiD, Telefonica, Airvana, Radisys, SoftBank, Oi and Orange.
Senza Fili's new report “Charting the path to RAN virtualization: C-RAN, fronthaul and HetNets” discusses the market trends, operator requirements and technology opportunities driving the transition to a virtualized RAN, through the...
Local utilities want more autonomy on network development
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a statement issued Feb. 2, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler positioned himself as a defender of both small business and government regulation.
The issue being considered by the FCC is a proposed order...
Designed for mobile network operators
Canadian test and measurement company EXFO is giving mobile operators more control when a network issue pops up with analytics-driven troubleshooting.
EXFO director of the wireless business unit Alvin Francis explained to RCR Wireless News the difference between traditional troubleshooting and...
Outdoor small cells can deliver the capacity that communities crave, but those communities often don't want to see the small cells. While base station vendors like Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent work to create more and more powerful cells, equipment vendors are helping them find ways...
The TESSCO ONE Innovation Showcase and Conference brought wireless networking industry leaders from around the world to AT&T Stadium near Dallas, Texas, on Feb. 3 and 4 for the annual infrastructure-focused trade show.
The impressive stadium, known colloquially as Jerry World after Dallas Cowboys owner...
Nokia using small cells to increase capacity in dense areas
Network infrastructure giant Nokia Networks has partnered with carrier Bharti Airtel to expand FDD-LTE 4G mobile broadband in six new markets in India.
The 4G deployment will operate on the 1,800 MHz band. In dense areas,...
Shares of wireless infrastructure giant Alcatel-Lucent are trading higher on the heels of the company's fourth-quarter earnings report. Revenue declined, but net income rose as the company reported fixed cost savings of $34 million for the quarter.
Fourth-quarter revenue was $4.1 billion, and net income...
DAS will improve data, cellular by 2016
The city of Santa Clara, Calif., is looking to enhance cellular and Wi-Fi services by installing an outdoor distributed antenna system in busy parts of town.
Projected for completion early in 2016, the DAS is owned by the city...
Verizon tower sale confirmed
Earlier this week we reported the possibility of Verizon Communications selling $15 billion worth of its portfolio to make up for all the money spent in the recent spectrum auction. This sale has now been confirmed, with American Tower entering into a definitive agreement to...
Wi-Fi router comes in three-pack and covers whole home
The new Eero router seeks to create small-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks by foregoing the traditional one-router home setup for a base kit of three routers available on pre-order for $309.
The easy-to-install network is run from a...
A conversation with Philippe Chanclou, team manager Orange Labs
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Philippe Chanclou, team manager at Orange Labs in France, talked to us about how to approach the...
