Live or progressive? Which codec and compression rate? All these factors and more impact end user QoE and operator’s bottom-line.
By 2020, more than half of all mobile data will be video driven, according to industry projections. As consumer demand for mobile video continues to explode, service providers...
RF interference can reduce coverage, capacity, and throughput by desensitizing receivers, increasing noise floors, and lowering signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). These conditions can prevent the use of higher modulation coding schemes and efficient resource block allocation as LTE schedulers attempt to avoid impacted spectrum. Detecting...
Kontron’s Symkloud converged infrastructure platform future-proofs data centers with modular design and integrated compute, storage, and switching for wireless, video and IoT/data analytic workloads
Communications service providers know it’s imperative to adopt network functions virtualization and software-defined networks, but it’s a difficult transition given the...
Sequans is first to market with LTE Cat M Monarch chipset
The massive scale of the Industrial Internet of Things—billions of connected devices and sensors seamlessly communicating—is enabled only by low-cost components able to run in the field for years without requiring maintenance.
To support that...
Three major trends currently shaping the telecom industry -- the mobile data tsunami, cloud computing and software-defined networking -- are all fueled by availability of bandwidth. As service providers evolve their network architectures to support these trends and enable the promise of network virtualization,...
The telecoms industry has always been open to innovation and new ideas. The industry spends money and resources, encouraging incubators and innovators to develop new ideas in digital innovation. This innovation has seen incredible leaps forward since the advent of the Internet, with mobile...
2016 is an interesting year in mobile networks. Maybe for the first time, we are seeing tangible signs of evolution from digital services to mobile-first. As it was the case for the transition from traditional services to digital, this evolution causes disruptions and new...
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The cable industry has been playing an increasing role in advancing wireless technologies as fixed and mobile networks are converging. Today the cable industry provides wireless customers with the largest footprint of wireless hotspots in an environment of increasing...
Mobile operators face the challenge for supporting networks with a spurt of increase or decrease of traffic. For e.g., if there is some rugby or football event, then the need for bandwidth increases. So the area near the stadium needs to support much higher...
Seize the Opportunity While You Still Can
The ongoing transformation of business communications presents significant opportunities for wireline and wireless carriers, but also great risk. The revenue opportunity is enormous. Carriers who don’t act to seize this opportunity risk losing it to a growing competitive...
Service providers should regard signaling as a competitive advantage that fosters innovation, rather than a source of frustration
As the Internet of Things takes shape and 5G use cases bring into focus the sheer amount of network complexity and capacity that will be needed in...
Looking back, cell tower power used to be treated a lot like the electrical grid: essential, reliable, taken for granted, a tad dull. But today, cell tower power is a different story. It is an exciting source of technical and business innovation running at...
CHICAGO, IL -- Today, NextGen Global Resources will announce that it's broadening its offerings to include capabilities for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Evolution. Since opening its doors in 2009, NextGen has done things a little differently from traditional staffing firms. Specializing in...
Seattle, WA and Vienna, Austria -- Kapsch CarrierCom and Opanga Networks are pleased to announce today the formation of a new strategic partnership to bring the next generation of network optimization solutions to mobile operators throughout Europe. Kapsch CarrierCom is a leading, global producer,...
Seattle Washington -- Opanga, the leader and pioneer of Traffic Densification Technology™ (TDT), is pleased to announce today the commercial availability of its second generation product, Network Coordinated Super Scheduler™ (NCSS), providing mobile operators with a unique, disruptive network optimization solution and game-changing economic value.
Building...
Altiostar to showcase its vRAN solution at Mobile World Congress, 2016 in Barcelona
Tewksbury, Massachusetts, US – February 18, 2015 – Altiostar announces its participation and demonstration of its industry leading carrier-grade Ethernet-based virtualized RAN (vRAN) solution that implements LTE-Advanced features and brings intelligence to...
Redefining real time mobile communications with disruptive, cloud-based solutions from GENBAND
Powerful cloud-based software solutions, coupled with increasingly virtualized network functionality, will define the next wave of disruptive innovation. These tools, if strategically deployed, allow communications service providers (CSPs) to rapidly bring new applications to...
In 2016, analysts project that 400K Enterprise cellular nodes will be shipped, but over 12 million Wi-Fi APs will be used in the Enterprise LAN. We all know that Wi-Fi cannot provide the quality of service and security that enterprises need, but enterprises are...
Drive network agility and cost efficiency through IP monitoring
Consumer demand for mobile data, driven by a constant stream of new applications and advanced services coming to market, creates numerous challenges for network operators. Our all-IP world puts competitive pressure on service providers working to...
Leverage big data to enable agility and transformation
Some see it as a threat to business, others see it as a huge business opportunity: digital disruption. But what does digital disruption mean?
It describes the digital developments in technology that impact existing products, services and business...
At the RAN USA conference in San Francisco at the end of January, Chih-Lin I from China Mobile reminded us ETSI its Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) framework span the entire network, from the core to the RAN. The RAN is an essential part of...
Juniper helps Orange Business Services overcome a business challenge
Orange Business Services has always had a close relationship with its customers and in 2013, one of its in-depth surveys found that many were looking for greater agility from their network services. “Our customers are asking...
The introduction of new cellular technologies has significantly improved spectral efficiency; however, data demand has outpaced the spectral efficiency benefit. Cellular spectrum holdings cannot keep up with mobile data growth. For operators to meet data demand and retain profitability despite a falling cost per...
It’s almost time for the doors to open on the world’s biggest annual mobile tech event: Mobile World Congress. And this year the Mobile World Live team is ramping up its TV broadcast with some major new program launches. This year we’ve expanded our...
