Executive Summary
The telecommunication industry has experienced unprecedented change over the past 10 years. The emergence of connected devices, over-the-top (OTT) applications, and the Internet of Things (IoT) has resulted in the exponential growth of communication services, data traffic, and cloud applications. Enterprises, with increasingly...
With the rapid roll out of tower mounted radios and deployment of C-RAN network architectures, new installation and maintenance methods have to be developed to reduce installation and maintenance costs. The use of costly tower climbing crews needs to be minimized resulting in new...
There is no way around Voice over LTE (VoLTE). It is the future of voice communications via wireless networks. A recent study on how it compares to its contender, namely OTT VoIP services (that’s over-the-top Voice over IP for the layman), against the backdrop of...
IP circuit monitoring, reporting makes or breaks success with carriers
The explosive growth in mobile data traffic is steadily adding complexity to how service providers deliver backhaul. Multi-faceted service level agreements ideally ensure that bandwidth is supplied in a reliable manner that gives mobile carriers...
The coaxial transmission lines that move RF signals from the base station to the top of the tower are one of the most critical components in an RF site. Once properly installed on the tower, they can move high levels of RF power with...
IWCE’s Network Infrastructure Forum is a new event co-located with International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) that brings together the industry’s wired and wireless players to examine the communications technology infrastructure. Targeted to service providers, tower owners, public safety, government, utilities and transportation professionals, the...
Worldwide, carriers are looking for solutions to cope up with the ever growing demand of mobile data. While Wi-Fi accounts for more than half of the traffic on mobile devices, carriers have traditionally used Wi-Fi for cellular data offload for residential, enterprise and hotspots....
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For industry veterans, working in the mobile ecosystem can feel like a never-ending series of conferences, exhibitions and meetings. Not only can these events become costly in terms of time and money, they often don’t...
Third generation (3G) mobile telephony included built-in security from the handset through the service provider’s core network. Fourth generation (4G) long-term evolution (LTE) is an IP-based system and, as such, brings with it long standing IP-based security weaknesses. From the beginning, standards bodies for...
Directory search listings have come a long way, but the way they’re managed now, competitors can take your data and resell it. It’s time to update the management model and reap those benefits for yourself. Neustar's new ebook, Striking a Better Balance, shows you how...
Today’s threat landscape demands the use of a complex array of proactive network security systems and monitoring solutions. What are the most common and useful network security solutions you should consider - next-gen firewalls, web-application firewalls, intrusion prevention systems?
Many of these security tools require...
In order to meet the ever-increasing needs for bandwidth in mobile networks, regulatory agencies often reallocate or "refarm" spectrum which had previously been used for other communications services. In many cases this refarmed spectrum must be cleared of both existing users and sources of...
Fiber-to-the-tower and fiber-to-the-home deployments require trained technicians
In addition to moving indoors with a ramp up of small cell deployments, carriers are expanding 4G LTE mobile networks into rural parts of the country, while adding capacity in dense metropolitan areas.
As the demand for mobile data...
Tewksbury, Massachusetts, USA – December 14, 2015 – Altiostar announces the general availability of its game-changing Virtualized RAN solution for the LTE and LTE-A market based on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and open source software. A year ago, Altiostar announced its unique C-RAN solution with...
Telecom vendors are gaining a competitive edge over other service providers by getting their own Siterra implementation. More than 50,000 users manage over 1 million sites and 1.7 million global projects using Siterra’s suite of SaaS-based software. Many of those users that previously only...
Operators now have multiple technology options available when it comes to deploying in-building wireless services. Options include passive Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), active DAS, Distributed Radio Systems (DRS) and Distributed Small Cells (DSC). When multiple operators / multiple technologies are deployed indoors sharing common...
Indoor video performance on mobile devices requires a dramatic shift in benchmarking and network optimization
The current carrier landscape is marked by price wars aimed at giving customers new devices and more monthly data for far less money. From a consumer point of view, what...
Today we find our mobile phones as devices we simply cannot live without. They are our camera, video recorder, email device, social media access device, text messaging device, book, newspaper, gaming device, and oh yeah... our mobile telephone. We expect these devices to work...
Synchronization is the “invisible” foundation to any nation’s communications fabric from cell phones, to Internet, to power grids, to networking. With higher-accuracy synchronization, the wireless networks can deliver better performance, higher data throughput, more efficient spectrum use, higher subscriber loads, and faster transaction processing.
Precise,...
A holistic approach to designing a visibility architecture allows IT to respond to the immediate and long-range demands of growth, management, access, control, and cost issues.
Download Ixia’s eBook to learn about:
Why complete visibility is important and how to obtain it
How to build a visibility...
Close your eyes and imagine: You’ve booked a trip to exotic Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh, in India. Now, you need to book a hotel and choose between an authentic modern Indian-style hotel, a local hotel chain or a youth hostel. What would you choose and...
This white paper expands the foundation of 4G Americas’ view of 5G recommendations that was published in the October 2014 white paper titled, 4G Americas’ Recommendations on 5G Requirements and Solutions.
The increasing reliance on wireless technologies makes it vital for spectrum users to monitor and control the RF operating environment. Interfering signals can degrade the capacity of communications networks, and illicit transmissions in the vicinity of prisons, national borders and critical infrastructure may represent...
Walk test measurements are needed in most cases to verify in-building deployment. In-building measurements are time consuming and expensive. In order to be efficient, both the data collection and following analysis needs to be executed professionally to ensure the number of visits to the...
