On this week's show we look at how open source is impacting NFV and SDN deployments and top stories from the past week
Open source continues to be a growing influence on the rollout of software deployments across the telecom space, with a greater focus...
A distributed antenna system is a go-to solution for bringing multicarrier cellular connectivity throughout a large venue like a stadium, but the same refined deployment also works for outdoor spaces.
At Soldier Field in Chicago – home of the NFL's Chicago Bears – AT&T and...
Keysight Technologies beat analysts' expectations when it posted fourth-quarter and full-year results this week, with what company officials described as "strong profit in a soft market." In terms of quarterly Keysight results, revenues were down 1% year-over-year and net income was $277 million. Net...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
iPad crashes, union demands and another Cisco acquisition
5 things to know today ...
1. Cisco is buying a video conferencing software company. Acano is a London-based company with a video conferencing platform deeply integrated with Microsoft's Skype for Business. Cisco, of course, has its own...
Think Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Android Pay; details of service rollout are scarce
South Korean company LG, known for its handsets, televisions and other electronics, announced it plans to enter the mobile payment market with LG Pay.
The move is set to allow LG to compete...
In its latest Mobility Report, Ericsson predicts mobile subscriptions across Latin America and the Caribbean will surge from 740 million this year to 850 million in 2021, at which point W-CDMA/HSPA technologies are expected to be the dominant technology accounting for 50% of total...
Investor Marc Ganzi has completed his company's purchase of ExteNet Systems, raising more than $1.4 billion in debt and equity. That amount represents the price paid for ExteNet as well as "dry powder" to invest in ExteNet's business and in future acquisitions.
"We plan to...
Variables such as cable performance, throughput levels, connectivity and passive intermodulation are key indicators of network functionality. Contractors must test and measure all these factors in order for carriers to sign off on a site activation. With the growth of small cells and distributed...
NuVu video subscription on-demand service set to launch in Q1 2016 on Airtel Nigeria network
Continuing its aggressive move into the television content delivery space, Ericsson this week announced a new streaming video on-demand service called NuVu, set to become available next year for some...
Ericsson Mobility Report shows subscriber and data traffic growth
India and China are often thought of as the fastest-growing mobile markets, but the latest Ericsson Mobility Report shows the rest of the Asia-Pacific region growing faster than these two giants combined. Excluding China and India,...
This week, we are focusing on the state of wireline connectivity through the lens of one of the largest U.S. providers, CenturyLink. We’ll also provide some initial thoughts on T-Mobile US’ inclusion of video streaming services in the majority of their plans.
Verizon’s...
Telecom operators have been busy in recent years throwing out diverse rate plans in order to entice increasingly fickle consumers and outmaneuver their rivals. These moves have put tremendous stress on LTE Diameter signaling traffic, which is expected to explode over the next five...
DAS providers are keenly aware of the need reduce the cost and footprint of their systems as they target more enterprise customers. Alcatel-Lucent is keenly aware of the need to keep innovating in high-growth areas as it prepares to merge with Nokia. One answer...
Level 3 looks to NFV and SDN in move to bolster websites, applications; other NFV and SDN news of the week
Recent events around the launch of ticket sales for an upcoming moving that crashed the websites and applications of movie ticker brokers highlight the...
Measurement Computing, which produces hardware and software for data acquisition and logging for test and measurement, acquired competitor Data Translation for an undisclosed sum.
Data Translation focuses on PC-based data acquisition and designs modules compatible with a range of technologies, including USB, PCI, LXI and Ethernet as...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
The expansion of operation support systems and business support systems implementation throughout Latin American was the topic of a recent video interview with Bob Titus, VP of global converged solutions at NetCracker Technology. Titus talked about what is driving the expansion, what carriers are...
Net income declined, according to American Tower Q3 financial report
In a recent earnings call, American Tower executives reported a year-over-year decline in net income, but is betting on a growing market in India with a $1.21 billion acquisition of Viom Networks.
During the quarter,...
Topics for this week's Carrier Wrap include Sprint fighting to shut down its WiMAX network, Verizon Enterprise rumors and Q3 results wrap
On this week's Carrier Wrap, host Dan Meyer and RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney delve into some of the more interesting...
Nuage Networks VSP to support CenturyLink NFV deployments across PSB architecture
Telecommunication services provider CenturyLink signed a deal with Alcatel-Lucent’s Nuage Networks to provide the operator with networking functionality for its programmable services backbone network architecture.
CenturyLink said its PSB architecture is an open, software-enabled platform for...
National League of Cities finds that U.S. metros aren’t taking into account transportation innovations
Smart cities technology, a subset of the "Internet of Things," is making morning commutes, finding a parking spot and arranging public transit, among other things, an easy-to-use process driven by mobile...
1. Ericsson is teaming up with Cisco in a move that should make it a stronger competitor to Huawei and to the combined Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent. The partners said the deal will yield $1 billion in incremental revenue for each company by 2018. Ericsson...
David Cameron announces 'universal service obligation' to push broadband access
As the world becomes increasingly connected, broadband access has evolved from being something that's nice to have to something's that's imperative to live and work in the modern world.
Fostering broadband access is a major priority...
