Telecom vendors are gaining a competitive edge over other service providers by getting their own Siterra implementation. More than 50,000 users manage over 1 million sites and 1.7 million global projects using Siterra’s suite of SaaS-based software. Many of those users that previously only...
Operators now have multiple technology options available when it comes to deploying in-building wireless services. Options include passive Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), active DAS, Distributed Radio Systems (DRS) and Distributed Small Cells (DSC). When multiple operators / multiple technologies are deployed indoors sharing common...
Indoor video performance on mobile devices requires a dramatic shift in benchmarking and network optimization
The current carrier landscape is marked by price wars aimed at giving customers new devices and more monthly data for far less money. From a consumer point of view, what...
Today we find our mobile phones as devices we simply cannot live without. They are our camera, video recorder, email device, social media access device, text messaging device, book, newspaper, gaming device, and oh yeah... our mobile telephone. We expect these devices to work...
Synchronization is the “invisible” foundation to any nation’s communications fabric from cell phones, to Internet, to power grids, to networking. With higher-accuracy synchronization, the wireless networks can deliver better performance, higher data throughput, more efficient spectrum use, higher subscriber loads, and faster transaction processing.
Precise,...
A holistic approach to designing a visibility architecture allows IT to respond to the immediate and long-range demands of growth, management, access, control, and cost issues.
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Close your eyes and imagine: You’ve booked a trip to exotic Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh, in India. Now, you need to book a hotel and choose between an authentic modern Indian-style hotel, a local hotel chain or a youth hostel. What would you choose and...
This white paper expands the foundation of 4G Americas’ view of 5G recommendations that was published in the October 2014 white paper titled, 4G Americas’ Recommendations on 5G Requirements and Solutions.
The increasing reliance on wireless technologies makes it vital for spectrum users to monitor and control the RF operating environment. Interfering signals can degrade the capacity of communications networks, and illicit transmissions in the vicinity of prisons, national borders and critical infrastructure may represent...
Walk test measurements are needed in most cases to verify in-building deployment. In-building measurements are time consuming and expensive. In order to be efficient, both the data collection and following analysis needs to be executed professionally to ensure the number of visits to the...
Test and measurement leader Anritsu debuts certification programs for active, passive DAS
In-building wireless connectivity—be it from a small cell or distributed antenna systems (DASs)—is an essential mentioned by many consumers in the same breath as water and electricity.
In addition to the current red hot...
Preferred Communication Systems, Inc. and North Sight Communications, Inc., have agreed to jointly offer their Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands 800 MHz spectrum in an open public auction scheduled to begin December 1, 2015. The two companies together hold 9.15 MHz of...
Forward-looking telecom providers are undertaking cloud mitigation as the next major evolution in networks and services. For good reason: being untethered from purpose-built hardware offers the tantalizing prospect of more efficient, responsive and elastic networks. This has prompted most operators to either commit to,...
Radio equipment at conventional cell sites is located at the base of the tower, transmitting RF signals via coax to antennas at the top of the tower. However, these coax-based feeders produce most problems in cell sites due to their inherent loss and susceptibility...
Join Nokia for an exciting discussion on the current status of carrier cloud deployments across the globe and in the U.S.. Mobile broadband operators face many challenges and exciting new opportunities to build profitability by using cloud transformation.
In this webinar, Nokia will examine which operators...
Industry experts will discuss the evolution from 4G LTE to 5G mobile networks and more
The telecommunications industry, now more than ever, is evolving. LTE networks are evolving to support new, innovative services like VoLTE and VoWi-Fi, and, simultaneously, the foundations are being laid for...
The communications industry's big push towards virtualizing network equipment, services, functions and applications is certainly much more than a fad.
Telecom carriers, cable operators and other service providers are increasingly seeking ways to trim capital and operating expenses, improve customer service,bring products to market quicker...
The In-Building Wireless market is expected to grow from $4.83 Billion in 2015 to $16.71 Billion in 2020, at a CAGR of 28.1% during the forecast period, according to a June 2015 market research report by MarketsandMarkets titled, "In-Building Wireless Market by System Components (Antennas, Cabling, DAS,...
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 well in the past, but with the coming of market price pressures, LTE, and...
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 is a need for easy and cost-effective orchestration of all this complexity.
HetNet Gateway (HNG)...
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 was a clear impetus to study SON—networks were becoming larger and more complex, and...
Ultra Mobile brings the world to stores nationwide connecting millions of people around the globe. Ultra’s cost-effective plans and industry leading customer service puts them at the forefront of the pre-paid telecom space.
With $118.2 million in total revenue for 2014, Ultra‘s three-year growth was...
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 viewing VoLTE as something they will migrate to over time. However, there are some...
Spectrum monitoring is a powerful tool that can be used to ensure that the RF communications we all depend on for both civilian and defense applications work, and work well. The need to make more effective use of our RF spectrum comes from a number...
