HetNet Happenings: Episode 5 – MWC 2015 HetNet recap and podcast

HetNet Happenings: RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney and Jeff Mucci, RCR CEO and editorial director, round up some of the news from Mobile World Congress 2015.
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The telecom veterans discuss trends in the small cell space, including the work carriers and vendors do to effectively disguise network infrastructure in existing streetscapes like lighting poles.
Nokia and CommScope are among the vendors highlighted; both companies are aggressively moving into the densification of metropolitan networks.
Nokia and other companies and analysts peg consumer demand for data traffic as growing 1,000-fold by 2020.
Carrier Alcatel-Lucent at Mobile World Congress showcased an aggregation solution that uses Wi-Fi and cellular in complimentary capacities using a combination of licensed and unlicensed spectrum.
Essentially, Wi-Fi can be used to boost weak cellular and cellular can be used to boost weak Wi-Fi.
Another looming tech improvement came from San Francisco, Calif.-based Kumu Networks, a company that started as a doctoral project among Stanford electrical engineering students.
At Mobile World Congress, Kumu announced major carrier deals with SK Telecom and Telefonica. The companies are adopting Kumu’s self-interference cancellation technology, which can double spectral efficiency by eliminating transmission interference.
For more news and multimedia content from Mobile World Congress, visit the RCR Wireless News website and YouTube channel.
HetNet Happenings, hosted by Sean Kinney, is a weekly look at all things DAS, Wi-Fi, small cell and much more.