Network Infrastructure

AUSTIN, Texas – Focused on enabling business transformation and enterprise agility, Dell and Microsoft announced an integrated hybrid cloud solution during Dell World. More specifically, modular Dell infrastructure will include …

AUSTIN, Texas – This year’s Dell World opened with the buzz of Dell’s proposed $67 billion merger with IT giant EMC still ringing in everyone’s ears. The acquisition makes it …

Analyst Jake MacLeod discusses the future of 5G and fundamental pieces including NFV, SDN and self-optimizing networks With standardization of the waveform set for a 2020 release, Jake MacLeod, founder …

UK telco targets 14 million LTE subs by the end of 2015 U.K. mobile operator EE said it ended the third quarter of 2015 with 12.6 million LTE subscribers, posting …

Verizon Communications’ decision to sell wireline assets to Frontier Communications seems to have freed up more capital for investment in wireless. During the telecom operator’s earnings call, the company said wireless …

A conversation with David FitzGerald, director of the office of the CTO, Ascom Network Testing Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive The smart RAN …

Although I missed many interesting sessions while attending customer meetings at the recent Wi-Fi Global Congress, I feel the industry is maturing and many vendors are rethinking their strategies to …

Traditionally, line sweep, PIM, and OTDR traces have been individually processed in stand-alone PC based programs that work with one trace at a time. This repetitive, labor intensive process worked …

Wi-Fi will support voice, IoT and more. Will it be regulated? The future of unregulatd Wi-Fi could depend on the work underway in an Austin office park. Nestled between a …

For the last few years small cells have been looked at as the answer to fill coverage gaps at the edge of networks and keep up with increased network demands …

Targeting 2016 test, Ericsson partners with América Móvil and Brazilian government In coordination with the Brazilian government and carrier América Móvil, Swedish ICT and telecom vendor Ericsson plans to test …

The term “HetNets” refers not only to heterogeneity across network technologies, but also to the variety of backhaul technologies and packet cores. As a result of this network variability, there …

The Indian telco has completed its LTE network rollout across the country Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio Infocomm said it plans to launch commercial 4G LTE services in fiscal year …

5G radio demo has already been conducted Nokia Networks and United Arab Emirates mobile operator Du signed a memorandum of understanding on a set of common objectives for the development and …

WASHINGTON – Wi-Fi over the last few years has gone from being something hotels say they have that doesn’t quite work right – but costs a lot – to a …

Self-organizing networks (SON) have interested the cellular industry for many years. Work in this area started in 2006 at 3GPP with initial studies on the general concepts and requirements. There …

1. Nokia appears to have cleared the last major hurdle in its $17.6 billion purchase of Alcatel-Lucent. Today, China’s Ministry of Commerce gave conditional approval to the merger, which has …

From automotive applications to virtual reality, millimeter wave spectrum could support data hungry applications AUSTIN, Texas – Millimeter wave spectrum has gone from being a moonshot technology to a likely …

Texas Wireless Summit attendees hear massive MIMO essentials and benefits AUSTIN, Texas – Service providers last year spent $41.3 billion on U.S. spectrum. Full realization of massive multiple-input/multiple-output antenna technology …

Swedish telecom equipment vendor Ericsson has signed onto the GMSA Humanitarian Connectivity Charter, which aims to use technology to bolster crisis response in afflicted areas. The GSMA established the program …

After Comcast failed to block a municipal fiber broadband network, the city of Chattanooga, Tenn., via EFB Fiber Optics, will offer what it bills as the fastest home Internet connection …

South Korea, Japan and North America to lead future deployments of 5G While the telecommunications industry still needs to fully define standards for “5G” development, and 4G LTE has room to …

The operator aims to offer access speeds of up to 375 Mbps Turkish mobile operator Turkcell expects to launch LTE-A services in the country in 2016. Atac Tansug, the company’s …

Voice over LTE (VoLTE) has the fastest technology adoption of all wireless technologies, yet only 28% of wireless subscribers are expected to be using VoLTE by 2020. Many companies are …

In an attempt to streamline the application process for cell site upgrades, California signed Assembly Bill 57 into law, setting a “shot clock” for applications to be accepted. The new …