Indoor coverage remains a major issue and Small Cell Forum reports that as many as 61% of enterprises have noticeably poor indoor coverage (I’m sure many of us can relate to that!). With 80% of all traffic happening indoor, the end users desire (and demand) for good service is higher than ever. But the number of enterprise femtocells are only projected at 500K, as opposed to millions of Wi-Fi access points. Why is that?
One major reason for this discrepancy is that small cells are much more complex, expensive, and time-consuming to deploy and manage than Wi-Fi solutions.
So how can enterprise solutions reduce their cost and complexity while improving indoor coverage? The two market inflection points of Moore’s Law (where a single system on chip can enable multi-mode enterprise small cells at much lower cost) and virtualization (where any enterprise orchestration and gateway functionality can be virtualized on any COTS server) will drive down this cost and complexity. This infographic shows how an innovative vRAN solution changes the economics of delivering quality coverage to enterprises of any size:
To learn more, view this webinar recording hosted by Intel.
Changing the Economics of Enterprise Cellular with vRAN innovation (sponsored content)
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