Altera FPGA solution speeds up test and measurement
Altera (ALTR) says its Stratix 10 FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) and SoCs are delivering 2X core performance gain in their designs compared to previous generation high-performance programmable devices. Built on Intel’s 14 nanometer Tri-Gate process, the chips...
Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software”...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net.
Police have used data culled from cell towers for a while now to help in solving crimes, and it has largely been ignored by the general...
Ericsson’s recent restructuring announcement that will see the world’s largest telecom equipment vendor split its networks unit into two groups has at least one analyst predicting the company is set to become a software company.
In a blog post, Maravedis-Rethink research director Caroline Gabriel noted...
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
AT&T's new video venture could lead the carrier into partnerships with some of its direct competitors. The company is teaming up with The Chernin Group in deal that could eventually make AT&T an investor in OTT services that rely in part on the networks...
LAS VEGAS — Cloud and mobile are key growth pillars for IBM. During the opening sessions of this week’s Impact event, held in Las Vegas, IBM executives set a scenario in which enterprises of all industries are going through a disruptive moment in their...
Facebook is set to offer more voice and data services once it completes its planned purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp. WhatsApp is now selling prepaid SIM cards in Europe. Voice calls on WhatsApp were first announced at Mobile World Congress, but at that...
With wireless carriers looking to extract more revenues from their networks through the implementation of more dynamic pricing models, the deep packet inspection market is set to remain robust, according to a new report from Infonetics Research.
Citing potential in the mobile space, Infonetics reports...
Software-defined networking continues to migrate across the technology space, with Big Switch Networks announcing a deal this week that will see computer giant Dell reselling its Big Tap application and Switch Light Operating System across Dell’s Open Networking switches.
Big Switch explained that the deal...
The majority of emergency calls now come from wireless phones, but the people calling for help are difficult to find based on carrier-provided location information, according to a recent survey of managers and dispatchers at Public Safety Answering Points that handle calls to 911.
The survey...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net.
The plague of copper thefts continues for tower companies. This time a thief in the Chattanooga, TN area stole $300 worth of copper from a local...
Qualcomm (QCOM), the leading maker of smartphone chipsets, reported lower-than-expected sales for its second quarter as China's emerging LTE market failed to create the demand Qualcomm had hoped for. Sales were $6.37 billion, up 4% year-on-year, and operating income was $1.99 billion, up 6%...
Wireless trade association CTIA announced that industry veteran and former Federal Communications Commission commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker will take the reins of the trade group effective June 2. Baker will replace current CTIA President and CEO Steve Largent, who announced his retirement plans last...
Although the LTE modem market is still just a fraction of the overall market, it is by far the fastest-growing area, and is the focus of research and development efforts by chip manufacturers.
Qualcomm dominates this market with a 94% share, according to Forward Concepts....
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
LTE represents the fastest-growing part of the cellular baseband market, but 2G and 3G solutions still dominate the market. Just 13% of the cellular modems sold last year were LTE modems, according to the analysts at Forward Concepts.
"LTE is the fastest...
The enterprise-focused telecommunications space is set to consolidation as Birch Communications announced plans to acquire Cbeyond for approximately $323 million. Birch provides communications, cloud and managed services, while Cbeyond provides IT infrastructure, including wholesale wireless services.
The proposed deal will merge the Atlanta-based companies into...
Mobile advertising is coming into its own, and companies that sell advertising are racing to stay ahead of the curve. Google of course intends to be one of those companies. The search engine giant relies on advertising for the revenue that is funding its...
