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On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we talked with Azmir Mohamed, head of product management at cloud infrastructure provider Plumgrid, to discuss the role of OpenStack in the telecom space. Mohamed touched on Plumgrid’s latest Open Networking Suite 3.0 platform …

In this episode of Coders I’m talking to Joseph Hall, Chief Technologist for the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, D.C. He points out some policy items to be aware of when it comes to privacy and building apps, …

RCR Wireless News’ Roberta Prescott interviews Marcelo Kawanami, senior analyst at Pyramid Research, about how Latin American carriers should embrace m-commerce beyond m-payments via mobile merchants

Paolo Marini of Prisma Telecom Testing explains a four-component-carrier Carrier Aggregation demo at the LTE Innovation Summit, plus discusses takeaways from his presentation on VoLTE in stressed network environments.

Bookmark this page to watch Episode 12 of HetNet Happenings this Friday, May 1 at 2:00 PM EST. This week on HetNet Happenings, RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney brings you content from PCIA’s Wireless Infrastructure Show, going on this …

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On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we spoke with Frank Yue, senior technical marketing manager at F5, to garner insight into the importance and challenges facing NFV service orchestration for telecom operators. This has become an important topic as telecom …

If you go to a telecommunications trade show or another event for telecom professionals, you will probably notice the majority of the people that you will see are men. But even though men are still the majority in the industry, …

From towers to cellphones and everything in between, wireless infrastructure is what makes it possible to do everything from checking your Facebook at a football game to calling 911. It is a complex ecosystem where each part feeds the next …

What is Arduino, and why is it important in today’s innovative atmosphere?

On this week’s NFV SDN Reality Check we talked with the ONOS project on the recent launch of its Blackbird SDN platform and spoke with Chris Rice at AT&T Labs on the carrier’s software plans. The Open Network Lab’s Open …

Many buildings are difficult to penetrate with wireless signals. For this reason, distributed antenna systems are a growing trend in wireless infrastructure. Through a network of small antennas inside buildings, DAS helps deal with spots of poor coverage inside buildings that …

Tele2 talks maximizing unlicensed spectrum In this interview, we talked about the role of Wi-Fi and LTE unlicensed in enabling mobile operators use the 5 GHz band. Joachim Horn, EVP and group CTO at Tele 2, talked about the crucial …

Coders: Episode 7

Listen to the HetNet Happenings: Episode 11 podcast: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/202051166″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] On this episode of HetNet Happenings, host Sean Kinney learns how a distributed antenna system (DAS) works and gets an overview of the Wi-Fi Innovation …

Paul Kolesar, Engineering Fellow with CommScope in Richardson, Texas, discusses advancements in fiber optic cabling and multiplexing techniques and attendant data center applications with RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney.

National Instruments has created a special version of its LabVIEW software for 5G research. The tool was used by Nokia to demonstrate wireless speeds of 10 Gbps in the 73GHz spectrum band.

Mark Poletti, leader wireless architect with CableLabs in Louisville, Colorado, talks about the new RF chamber and testing for Wi-Fi devices. From RCR Wireless News.

Jeff Philips of National Instruments thinks that research around massive MIMO and millimeter wave technologies could help enable the application of small cells in higher frequencies.

Alistair Scott, director in the CTO office at JDSU, explains the company’s focus on network virtualization, with a focus on how it approaches service and network orchestration.

Watch this space for the tenth episode of HetNet Happenings, airing April 17 at 11:30AM CST. On HetNet Happenings, Sean Kinney and special guests discuss the latest in heterogeneous networks and wireless infrastructure.

Watch this space for the sixth episode of Coders, airing April 17 at 10AM CST. On Coders, Jeff Mucci and Victor Agreda discuss the latest in software and coding.