Some football fans who work for Crown Castle, TE Connectivity, Galtronics, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile US will be watching the Super Bowl carefully this weekend. They'll be checking out the crowd shots and watching the fans who are glancing repeatedly at their laps....
Mobile operators and service providers are deploying thousands of small cells and Wi-Fi access points in an effort to improve network capacity, close coverage gaps and enhance the customer experience. If small cells are poised to solve many of the issues facing the industry...
FCC enforcement advisory follows $600,000 Marriott fine
Hotel operators cannot block guests from using Wi-Fi hot spots rather than the hotel’s network, according to a strongly worded “enforcement advisory” published by the Federal Communications Commission.
The advisory comes following an Oct. 3 FCC order that fined Marriott...
CommScope confirmed today that it has agreed to buy TE Connectivity's telecom, enterprise and wireless businesses for roughly $3 billion. Together, the two network infrastructure giants had $5.8 billion in revenue during the fiscal year ended last September.
Investors gave the deal a standing ovation...
A conversation with Mike McFarland, senior director of product management and marketing, Airvana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwl0YzzHo-Q
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Airvana has worked on small cells for a long time, historically focusing on...
Another possible Google Fiber expansion announcement later this year
As expected, Google Fiber is coming to 18 new cities in four metropolitan areas, according to a Jan. 27 announcement from the company.
The high-speed Internet and HD television service is planned for the Atlanta; Nashville, Tenn.;...
Today, everyone connects effortlessly to the Internet via Wi-Fi technology when at home or in coffee shops, or on the move via the 3G or 4G networks used by smartphones and tablets.
Fifteen years ago, everyone was literally tethered to the Internet via a cable,...
Ericsson said today that a slowdown in the North American market weighed on earnings, and the company expects more of the same in the months ahead. CFO Jan Frykhammar said that spectrum auctions and acquisitions are consuming carrier capital, and that spending on mobile...
Atlanta, Nashville, Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte in the mix
Google Fiber is poised to expand to four more U.S. markets, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with company plans.
Google already offers the Gigabit fiber optic-based Internet service in Austin, Texas; Provo,...
A conversation with Javier Lorca Hernando, Project Manager for the RAN, Telefonica R&D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpcw37W4UeM
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The operators’ view on C-RAN – Telefonica, Spain
Telefonica has been and continues to...
Sites for small cell, Wi-Fi, towers
Melody Wireless Infrastructure on Jan. 26 announced the acquisition of 908 locations. The relatively new independent wireless infrastructure player controls more than 2,000 locations nationwide.
Greenwich, Conn.-based Melody Wireless, part of financing firm Melody Capital Partners, completed the transaction with...
A conversation with Renuka Bhalerao, Senior Product Line Manager, Radisys
http://youtu.be/R6DxBOaN5q0
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Radisys brings its expertise in developing application software and high-performance hardware to support C-RAN architectures. Radisys...
Chinese manufacturers are six of top 10
In 2014, smartphone sales totaled some 1.167 billion, an increase of 25.9% from 2013, according to a new report from market research and analysis firm TrendForce.
TrendForce’s Global Smartphone Analyst Avril Wu points out in the report, released Jan....
Glendale-area stadium, hotels, convention centers get new hardware for big game
In the run-up to the biggest football game of the year, international telco AT&T has upgraded the distributed antenna system at the University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale, Ariz., while also dropping some 23...
SK Telecom and Nokia aim to build 5G technologies
SK Telecom and Nokia announced they will work together to develop fifth-generation mobile network technologies. The two companies will research and develop core 5G network technologies such as cloud-based virtualized base station technology.
A major focus of...
AOptix uses lasers for wireless communications
Michael Klayko, former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, was tapped as new CEO of California-based AOptix Technologies.
AOptix uses laser radio technology to support high-capacity wireless data transport.
“AOptix’s highly differentiated product offerings have positioned the company to revolutionize the wireless...
A conversation with Hiroshi Kawai, director, technology development department and wireless technology department technology division, SoftBank
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As part of our upcoming report “Charting the path to RAN virtualization: C-RAN,...
Cloud computing, OTT video drive data demand
Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong are the latest locales in which Verizon Communications has deployed a 100G fiber network, adding some 11,681 miles of cable to the carrier’s global high-speed backhaul footprint.
Verizon already controls more than 40,000 miles of...
Long before the Internet and Wi-Fi were mainstream, prestigious hotels provided complimentary Wi-Fi service in public areas, such as the hotel lobby, and wired Internet connections in guest rooms. As the Internet and Wi-Fi became part of everyday life, existing solutions – which required...
AT&T DAS networks supported more than 100 terabytes of mobile data used in the 2014 season
AT&T distributed antenna systems provide cellular coverage at dozens of college football venues. And with the college National Championship in the rearview mirror and the season over, AT&T customers...
3-D printing drives R&D velocity
The AT&T IoT Foundry in Plano, Texas, which specializes in "fast-paced" research and development of "Internet of Things" connected devices, relies on 3-D printing to bring concept to reality without typical slowdowns associated with third-party fabrication.
In a recent tour of...
End-users expect to be able to access their desired content – fully personalized social media such as Facebook, YouTube videos or Netflix – on whatever device they happen to be using, wherever they are, whenever they want. Increasingly, those devices are smartphones and tablets.
According to Adobe’s...
Network security is big business for Cisco, and each year the company provides updates on potential new threats and the evolution of existing security loopholes. Cisco's annual security report this year highlights three trends, and also offers insight on the changing nature of countermeasures.
Snowshoe...
The operators’ view on C-RAN – A conversation with Alberto Bonaventura, Technical Consultant, Oi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCkCN0rQOes
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Oi has been active in trialing C-RAN solutions to study the impact they have...
