AUSTIN, Texas – Industry panelists at the IEEE GlobeCom show pointed to 100G data capacity speeds in dense metro areas as a quickly emerging HetNet trend.
Buddy Shaw of Windstream Communications said carriers are working hard to keep up with the data capacity demanded by...
UPC Business, a major Irish network services provider, announced the acquisition of operator Bitbuzz, which provides Wi-Fi hot spots to hotels, airports, pubs and other locations.
Terms of the Dec. 4 deal have not been made public.
Bitbuzz Managing Director Shane Deasy said the acquisition “will...
Fiber infrastructure expansions from Zayo and Southern Telecom are poised to bring better connectivity options to three American markets.
On Dec. 4, Zayo Group Holdings, a publicly traded bandwidth infrastructure provider based in Boulder, Colo., announced an acquisition of IdeaTek Systems.
IdeaTek is a fiber operator...
Claudia Bacco, managing director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those...
Small Cells Americas is underway in Dallas, and Wi-Fi is a major theme at this year's event. The show kicked off yesterday with a Wi-Fi monetization workshop, and today ABI Research is moderating a panel entitled "Carrier Wi-Fi and Small Cells" with panelists from...
As the "Internet of Things" expands its reach, consumer goods companies are finding themselves with wirelessly connected devices and reams of data that offer new insight into how their products are used and where their customers are – if they can make use of...
Orbcomm, a New Jersey-based machine-to-machine network solutions provider announced a public offering designed to raise $72 million toward the company’s planned $130 million acquisition of SkyWave Mobile Communications.
Canada-based SkyWave provides M2M services using the Inmarsat global L-band satellite network; the company has some 250,000...
Sweden-based Bahnhof AB, an Internet service provider, is taking advantage of the climate and population density in Stockholm to turn ventilated data center heat into usable energy.
Bahnhof CEO John Karlung recently showed RCR Wireless News around its data center in Sweden’s capital and explained the...
In HetNet news this week, Ericsson shares its outlook for small cells, Devicescape partners with Open Mobile, and underground data use surges in London.
HetNet News 11/4/14
Ericsson stays the course on small cells
Small cells have not gained traction with mobile operators as quickly as many...
Like San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner, the wireless network at San Francisco's AT&T park put in some major-league overtime during the World Series. The carrier said its customers used an average of 447 gigabytes per game during the three World Series games played...
Insatiable demand for mobile data has prompted wireless carriers to invest heavily in distributed antenna systems (DAS) to add in-building capacity to their networks. DAS equipment vendors say they see no end in sight, but at least one analyst who follows the market thinks...
The pace of technology evolution in mobile networks is happening ever more rapidly, and this panel from the HetNet Expo 2014 explores some of the major changes happening in networks today as well as what the future may look like.
John Bramfeld of Advanced RF...
Smart buildings, smart assets was a smart name for the first panel on Day One of last week's HetNet Expo in Chicago. Panelists explained the enterprise view of in-building cellular infrastructure, effectively setting the stage for the more in-depth discussions that followed.
"Wireless has really...
The HetNet Expo is the successor to DAS in Action, and the show stays close to its roots by focusing on distributed antenna systems more than on other heterogeneous network technologies. DAS, of course, is still more widely deployed than small cells, and in...
Social capital, as John Feland explains, looks at the strength of the relationship between people and their devices or products. Feland, who founded Argus Insights, became interested in the metric when online reviews were the primary source for examining what people loved and hated...
The Federal Communications Commission is set to consider rule changes this month that will expedite wireless infrastructure deployment. The new initiative singles out small cells and distributed antenna systems, noting their "minimal effects on the environment."
The goal of the rule change is to make...
With the continued rise in data demands, operators are considering small cell deployments to address coverage and capacity needs in dense urban areas. There are different ways to approach small cell implementation, but not all approaches offer the same results. No matter what approach is used,...
The University of Phoenix Stadium, which will host the 2015 Super Bowl, is getting ready for February with an upgrade to its distributed antenna system (DAS). Most of the largest sports stadiums and convention centers in the United States already have a DAS, but...
ABI Research names CommScope, TE Connectivity, Axell, Corning, and SOLiD as the top vendors of distributed antenna systems (DAS) based on implementations. More than half of all DAS deployments to date are in North America, and four of the five companies are based in...
The cost of upgrading legacy networks to LTE can be prohibitive for the so-called tier-three operators. Next-generation small cells operating in a distributed network core may offer an alternative.
SDN enables networks within networks
Software-defined architectures enable network functionality to migrate away from the core, increasing...
Outdoor small cells are needed in highly trafficked urban areas — often the same areas in which zoning and construction can be the most challenging. Equipment makers and service providers are addressing the challenge with creative "double duty" structures that can house small cells...
Ericsson joined Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Networks in launching a new small cell solution at Super Mobility Week, describing its tablet-sized RBS6402 as a "plug-and-play" solution that can be live on an operator's network within 10 minutes. The infrastructure giant wants its small cell solution...
Alcatel-Lucent will start reaping the benefits of its partnership with Qualcomm when it launches a new enterprise small cell early next year. The company's upcoming solution will use carrier aggregation to support 3G and LTE on a single chipset, Qualcomm's FSM9955.
At launch, Alcatel-Lucent's 9962...
Location-based services and companion context-aware services are possible at a scale and a cost that was impossible before.
Employers and retailers can use low-cost small cell 3G coverage systems to provide location-based services in order to improve employee effectiveness and customer service. In normal retail...
