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LTE PCIPlanning for Pesky Neighbors

While there are challenges associated with building any new wireless network, constructing the Long Term Evolution (LTE) network comes with a bushel of its own issues.One of these challenges is managing neighbor cells. This is a tough task even for traditional mobile networks, and it...

GUTI – understanding the unique ID in LTE

What is the GUTI? In LTE, the GUTI is the Globally Unique Temporary ID, and identifies the mobile device to the LTE network. The GUTI is assigned to the device by the Mobility Management Entity (MME), the access network's primary control node. By allocating a...

LTE Call Flow

Understanding Call Flow In-Depth With Long Term Evolution (LTE) comes a myriad of new and exciting attributes. One of these is the LTE call flow itself. In fact, call flow and signaling is unique for LTE, and is driven by 3GPP standards. Call flow is...

Boingo Wireless responds to pressure for free NYC airport Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi and distributed antenna system provider Boingo Wireless is facing pressure from the New York City Council to offer free Wi-Fi service at the three major New York-area airports, for which the company holds the exclusive right to provide wireless Internet access. The New York...

An in-depth look at LTE-Advanced: What it is and how operators are transitioning toward it

What is LTE-Advanced and how it is being implemented today?

American Tower boasts strongest growth among tower giants

The nation's three largest tower companies continue to benefit from demand for tower space driven by the transition to LTE networks, and by the seemingly insatiable consumer appetite for mobile data. American Tower, Crown Castle International and SBA Communications all reported double digit increases...

Cell Tower News: Supreme Court to hear T-Mobile US cell tower case

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. Tower companies and carriers are certainly getting their day in court lately. Last week it was a federal court debating police use of cell tower...

Defining virtualization and software-defined networking: What's the difference?

Comprehending the differences and connections between SDN and NFV is essential to ensure that they are implemented and leveraged in the most effective manner.

Extreme Networks sees modest revenue growth from Enterasys acquisition

Extreme Networks reported a net loss on its first full quarter of results that include its acquisition of Enterasys. However, the company reported that combined revenues grew three percent on a pro-forma basis, when compared to the prior year. GAAP net loss for the quarter...

HP makes a $1B OpenStack bet

Hewlett-Packard is betting its future on the cloud with a commitment to invest more than a billion dollars in software-based solutions that have the potential to replace HP servers and other hardware. Like many other network hardware companies, HP realizes that its customers are...

LTE is king of the road now, but LTE-A, 5G look ready to challenge

Looking to add some clarity to the burgeoning LTE space, RCR Wireless News spoke with Chris Pearson, president of trade group 4G Americas, to get his view on the launch of LTE services across the Western Hemisphere; the progress of LTE-Advanced; regional challenged to...

Analyst Angle: Disorganized value chain: the story of small cell and DAS

In early April, I had the pleasure of participating in the NEDAS Forum event in New York City. The forum had attendees and speakers covering all aspects of the deployment value chain.

Nokia interest in Alcatel-Lucent seems real to Wall Street

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) stock is up this morning on renewed rumors that Nokia wants to combine forces in order to take on market leader Ericsson. Nokia has a new CEO, a fresh focus on its NSN infrastructure business, and more than $7 billion in cash...

Video Optimization and Monetization for Carriers Feature Report

RCR Wireless News outlines the importance of video optimization for carriers, introduces key solutions vendors, and highlights opportunities for video monetization. Increasing efficiency of video delivery is critical for reducing costs and customer churn for network operators, according to findings from T-Mobile, Opera, and mobile...

Increase in LTE network deployment: Market overview, benefits and challenges

Recent LTE market growth illustrates the rising implementation of LTE technology within the telecom sector.

Study: Virtualization offers big savings to federal agencies

A new report from public-private partnership MeriTalk says that while federal agencies are making progress on some crucial IT programs, they aren't leveraging the full advantage of initiatives in areas including virtualization, cloud computing, remote access, consolidation and infrastructure diversification. MeriTalk focuses on improving the...

Video: Ixia on HetNet deployment

Test and measurement company Ixia has released an e-book on heterogeneous network deployment, compiling strategies and lessons learned from its work over the past couple of years with vendors and operators who have deployed small cells. "It's kinda of a collection of our input of...

HetNet News: Beyond Wi-Fi offload

Beyond Wi-Fi offload As cable operators increase their public Wi-Fi deployments, mobile operators may see some Wi-Fi hotspots reaching out to grab their customers. Last week during The Cable Show, Smith Micro Software launched an over-the-top Wi-Fi "concierge" app for iOS and Android devices. "Wi-Fi as...

Sprint prioritizes safety, Foxconn may target service providers

In wireless infrastructure news this week, Sprint is demanding more accountability of its tower crews, and Foxconn will reportedly target service provider networks with server hardware. Sprint prioritizes tower crew safety and accountability Sprint is making some changes as it wraps up its Network Vision build...

Cell Tower News: Court Mulls Tower Data; Towers No Health Risk

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. Police have used data culled from cell towers for a while now to help in solving crimes, and it has largely been ignored by the general...

Galtronics Webinar: Antenna Evolution – Meeting the Demand for LTE, Small Cell, & DAS Networks

Antenna Evolution - Meeting the Demand for LTE, Small Cell, & DAS Networks Implementations of Small Cell and DAS systems have many challenges; not the least of which is the selection and placement of the antenna elements.  Since these systems deploy antennas close to the users,...

Video: Aruba Networks' new WLAN education training

Aruba Networks announced this week that it has a new training program for building and maintaining wireless local area networks, and the curriculum is already being used by three educational institutions. Texas A&M University in the United States, Technical and Further Education South Australia and Princess...

Huawei and Qualcomm hit 300 Mbps with LTE-A

Huawei has successfully completed an LTE-A Category 6 connectivity test with download speeds reaching 300 megabits per second. The Chinese infrastructure, device and chip manufacturer worked with Qualcomm, and used the Qualcomm Gobi 9x35 LTE modem. Huawei said that during the test it was...

CommScope posts strong quarter

Infrastructure solutions company CommScope (COMM) reported net income of $64 million on sales of $935 million in the first quarter of the year, driven by its wireless offerings and strength in the U.S. market. CommScope's net income boomed to $64 million, compared to $16 million...