Quickly identify and isolate RF interference with the broadband log periodic antenna
The Viavi Solutions® broadband log periodic antenna is an extremely cost-effective solution that works with an AntennaAdvisor handle and CellAdvisor base station analyzer to let technicians at any skill level quickly identify and...
5G is much more than higher peak rates—it needs to enable new classes of services, connect new devices and industries, and empower new user experiences while fully leveraging 4G investments. The envisioned unified platform needs to support all spectrum, below 6 GHz as well...
Westek’s focus on technicians and quality helps streamline operations and reduce costs
Driven by the move from LTE to 5G, macro builds, metro fiber deployments and in-building wireless solutions are ushering an evolution in the telecom industry. Underpinning this increasingly complicated network environment are the...
What do you think of when you hear “Internet of Things” (IoT)? Controlling your thermostat remotely with your cellphone? Getting a break on your auto premium using a monitoring dongle in your car? There are plenty of gee-whiz IoT applications out there, but there...
Delivering a Gigabit service to the front door only frustrates the consumer even more when all they get inside the home is a couple megabits over Wi-Fi or no service in the room where they need it. Today over half of all customer service...
CommScope has comprehensive and in-depth experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining fiber and FTTH networks around the world. The FTTH Architecture Series is a complete set of white papers that explore the key issues and decision criteria for building best-in-class FTTH networks.
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Gap Wireless, a leading stocking distributor of mobile wireless solutions, has added industry-leading drones, sensors, software and UAV support services to its roster of available products and solutions. The solutions – from top vendors in the UAV marketplace – enable everything from deployment of...
The Roman Empire developed a network of complex and highly efficient roads that provided new opportunity, additional revenue, and faster delivery. Two thousand years later, 5G holds the same promise. And although new roads may lead to 5G, there are many paths to get there and...
The Roman Empire developed a network of complex and highly efficient roads that provided new opportunity, additional revenue, and faster delivery. Two thousand years later, 5G holds the same promise. And although new roads may lead to 5G, there are many paths to get there and...
More than 80 percent of mobile data traffic today originates or terminates indoors, and with the explosive adoption worldwide of both 4G and Wi-Fi technologies, ABI Research predicts that, by 2020, in-building mobile data traffic could increase to 53 exabytes per month.
Today more than...
The journey to virtualized networks and cloud services that are chained together in real time will further increase the demand for new tools that can provide highly accurate and automated proactive analytics. Customer experience and network analytics go hand-in-hand for communications service providers (CSPs)...
As service providers continue to grow their RF network footprints, they are under tremendous pressure to reduce deployment time to meet constant network demands and reduce OpEx. Fiber to the antenna (FTTA) sites offer significant coverage and capacity benefits, but at the same time...
Quickly locate RF interference sources with advanced interference hunting techniques.
With RF spectrum proliferation, interference issues are inevitable. Interference can reduce coverage, capacity, and throughput by desensitizing receivers, increasing noise floors, and lowering signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). All of this has a major impact on user...
To meet an increasingly diverse set of usage profiles, mobile network operators are building heterogeneous radio access networks that combine macro, small cell and WiFi technologies from different vendors across 2G, 3G and 4G. The level of diversity in subscriber requirements and the surging...
Field Dailies software for field crew management helps monitor expensive operational resources during increasingly complex network rollouts
In an era of exploding demand for mobile data, service providers around the world are constantly investing in network rollouts ranging from fiber-to-the-home for consumer internet to LTE...
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is one of the most significant current developments in wireless networks, with immense promise to transform the economics of dense data networks and to enable new services and revenue streams driven by a broadened ecosystem. By providing a cloud IT...
As backhaul becomes more flexible and complex, make SLA monitoring simple
The consensus is there will be a “5G” radio access standard by 2020. However, 5G networks will be much more than just radio access. There will be a foundational change as these future networks...
Verify installation, configuration and operation prior to commissioning with virtual baseband unit
In the tower industry, it’s important to get the job done right the first time. Unanticipated truck rolls and tower climbs drive up opex, which in a capital expenditure heavy business, can hurt...
No matter what industry sector you operate in—health, insurance, safety, government, or consumer discretionary, etc.—it’s unlikely that the Internet of Things (IoT) hasn’t become your market’s latest must-have. A key part of IoT is how the things connect to the Internet. Since the answer...
No matter what industry sector you operate in—health, insurance, safety, government, or consumer discretionary, etc.—it’s unlikely that the Internet of Things (IoT) hasn’t become your market’s latest must-have. A key part of IoT is how the things connect to the Internet. Since the answer...
The Internet of Things depends on three pillars, the silicon (in the device itself), the software (in the application that uses it) and the communication (providing the connectivity that allows it all to work). A look at the used cases across industry verticals reveals...
Suddenly, on a Monday morning around 9:30 am, we started to get calls at the NOC of high dropped calls near a strip mall; this continued till 6 pm. Everything was working fine last week; we did not make any changes to the network,...
Despite all the hype about small cells, digital repeaters are still the easiest, lowest cost, and most reliable solution for improving in-building wireless coverage for all carriers. I am not talking about the broadband signal boosters that are not carrier-authorized, which can potentially interfere...
