RCR Wireless News’ weekly video shows touch on towers, IoT, 5G, NFV and SDN
On this episode of Cell Tower News, host Joey Jackson talks with Trey Nemeth, VP of Operations for Stealth Concealment, about the growing concealed tower market. Towers are increasingly taking root everywhere and, in some cases, in backyards of residential homes. Nemeth discussed how Stealth Concealment hides cellular and wireless sites in areas that have more strict zoning regulations. Nemeth mentioned they work with all sorts of customers throughout the building process, but in the end it comes down to the carriers and coming up with a portfolio of concealment materials that will perform best for the specific site and application.
David Morken, CEO of Bandwith.com, joined this episode of Wi-Fi Now to discuss how technology is developing to support Wi-Fi calling and cellular-to-Wi-Fi two-way handoffs and how it has been a cumulative process. Morken launched Republic Wireless, which is a Wi-Fi first service provider. Fredrik Jungermann of Tefficient is also featured in this episode. Jungermann has studied how carriers across the world are using Wi-Fi to boost their business. Jungermann and host Claus Hetting observe how offering Wi-Fi in whatever form and simply using the word Wi-Fi tends to produce retention value.
This episode of IoT Innovation featured Kevin Lindsay, head of product marketing at Adobe. Host Chris Hare and Lindsay discussed Adobe’s analytics and data driven support for the “Internet of me” and how it is evolving. IoM demonstrates how effective, timely, personalized yet non-intrusive marketing is helping drive the growth in global brands. IoM is actually a bigger topic than the “Internet of Things” as it also encompasses traditional interaction with people though marketing.
On this edition of Inside Telecom Careers, host Karla Macias is joined by Kelley Dunne, CEO of Warriors 4 Wireless; Lucas Shingleton, Veteran Alumni of Warriors 4 Wireless; and RCR Wireless News Editorial Director Jeff Mucci. Dunne discussed how W4W is providing veterans with a roadmap for career advancement, training and certification in the wireless industry. Shingleton explains some of the challenges he and other vets face when transitioning from the military to the civilian workforce. Warriors 4 Wireless had a huge impact on Shingleton and he shares his experience with the program and the tools they gave him to graduate and transition into the wireless industry.
Victor Agreda, host of Coders, welcomed CEO and co-founder of Paradrop.io Dale Willis to this episode. Paradrop.io is a solution for pushing computational power to your router. This type of function is designed to allow for the Internet to function more efficiently for end users by making routers a software platform. Willis also mentioned how companies like Google are seeing the benefit of equipping home routers with more memory and processing power than ever before.
On this episode of HetNet Happenings, host Sean Kinney looked at the first installment of the RCRatx Studio Lounge speaker series. The speaker series featured Franklin Flint, CTO of TIA; and Liam Quinn, VP and senior fellow at Dell. Kinney, Flint and Quinn discussed 5G, Wi-Fi and the Internet of Things.
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, RCR Wireless News Editor-in-Chief Dan Meyer spoke with Sandro Tavares, head of business development for telco cloud at Nokia Networks. Tavares touched on topics including recent successes in NFV and SDN deployments; how mobile operators are approaching the move towards virtualization; challenges still facing the industry; and the impact new technologies and services like 5G, small cells and the Internet of Things are having on deployment plans.
