Network Infrastructure

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net. Ever since the fatalities a few weeks back, the tower industry has been very quiet. …

Software-defined networking technology can offer a number of benefits for telecommunication service providers beyond the ability to provide best-in-class services to their customers.

Network policy control solutions provider Sandvine announced that hosted infrastructure and managed services provider ClearSky Technologies will tap into Sandvine’s virtualized Policy Traffic Switch platform. Let’s just call it “hosted …

Telecoms and government institutions frequently find their paths crossing one another, as a bevy of networking issues often requires the oversight or intervention of a federal institution. This week saw many such instances, ranging from federal officials investigating complaints lodged against one of the nation’s largest telecoms to the U.S. government flexing its muscle on the use of Chinese equipment overseas.

Telecommunications giant Vodafone said it plans to expand LTE roaming into 18 countries later this year at the same roaming rate it charges for current 3G roaming services. The carrier …

In-building wireless solutions continue to attract significant investment from operators and neutral host providers, with the $4.4 billion market projected to almost double by 2019. Alcatel-Lucent and TE Connectivity have …

T-Mobile US expanded its international offering with a new SIM card product targeting the machine-to-machine space. The carrier said the product will eliminate roaming costs for M2M products in the …

IBM and AT&T recently announced a global partnership to develop support systems and solutions for the Internet of Things.

Aerohive Networks, which provides controller-less, cloud-based Wi-Fi, has filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The proposed number of shares and the price range have …

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sent a stern warning to telecom employers in the wake of three recent tower-related deaths, and is working with the National Association of …

Manufacturers of consumer-grade signal boosters will have a little more time to meet the federal government’s specifications as the FCC announced that the deadline for compliance has been been delayed.

NSN base station supports 300 Mbps LTE-A speeds Using NSN’s Flexi Multiradio 10 base station in combination with Broadcom Category 6 LTE-A user equipment, Finnish carrier Elisa has demonstrated speeds …

While enterprises may be able to put off their SDN investments, telecoms need to start taking steps toward deployment now.

VMware recently announced a partnership with F5 to boost end-user products for desktop virtualization infrastructure. VMware’s End-User Computing technologies, in combination with F5’s Software Defined Application Services, can be leveraged for safer, more accessible applications.

The Latin American giant telecom group América Móvil (AMX) posted its fourth quarter and full year results for 2013. While in the 4Q13, AMX’s profit rose 15.7%, when comparing the entire year …

Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (RKUS) had solid fourth-quarter growth that met or exceeded its guidance, and company executives noted particular success in diversifying its customer base, while expressing optimism about the …

China Telecom investors receive encouraging news in our latest telecom capital markets weekly round-up.

Sprint continues to list in the waters of the domestic wireless space, caught between the winds and currents of needing to spend money to improve network operations, while at the …

Huawei and NSN have signed a cross-licensing agreement for OSS (Operations Systems Support), following up on the plan the two infrastructure giants announced last spring. Ericsson is also expected to …