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Blinq Networks has unveiled a new adaptive non-line-of-sight (NLOS) backhaul system for small cells that aims to solve several of the challenges of small cell deployment: support for multi-standard small cells, with quick deployment and low cost. Radu Selea, CTO of Blinq Networks, said...
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Cisco: Mobile data traffic up 81%, operators offload 45%
Cisco released its closely watched Visual Networking Index, scaling...
Extreme Networks (Nasdaq: EXTR) saw its revenue jump 94% year-over-year in its most recent quarter, which included two full months of ownership of networking company Enterasys, which Extreme acquired in October.
Chuck Berger, president and CEO of Extreme, noted that the acquisition of Enterasys made Extreme...
It is with a heavy heart we bring you this week's cell tower news. It was a devastating weekend, with two tower tragedies in different parts of the country that claimed a total of four lives.
The first was in Clarksburg, W.Va., where two towers...
Cisco has released its closely-watched Visual Networking Index report, and while the networking giant continues to predict double-digit growth rates for mobile data traffic, it is scaling back its forecast somewhat. Cisco forecasts global traffic of 2.6 exabytes per month for 2014, down from...
American consumers continue to buck the global trend, passing over popular Chinese brands in favor of handsets made by Apple and Motorola. The latest report from ComScore found that of the estimated 156 million Americans who own a smartphone, 41.8% own an iPhone. The...
AT&T Mobility’s Aio Wireless brand modified its offerings, providing more separation between recent changes to the mother ship’s rate plans and that of the prepaid-focused Aio plans. The new plans include lower prices and increased data buckets and follow up on comments made last...
Already we’ve heard from Apple and Samsung that their future is not as rosy for smartphones as investors had hoped. In reality it is like expecting early automobile dealers to continue to grow sales
Samsung Electronics America announced that beginning Feb. 13, U.S. customers will be able to purchase the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 and the Tab Pro 10.1 and 8.4.
The OpenDaylight Project, an open community focused on software defined networking and virtualization solutions, recently announced the availability of its first open source software called Hydrogen.
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Tower providers, fiber players, integrators and others are focused on capturing business from the next round of U.S. mobile infrastructure expansion – small cells.
All H-Block spectrum licenses up for bid in the ongoing Federal Communications Commission Auction 96 are now in play with all 176 “economic area” licenses now having received at least a minimum bid. The last to fall was the 10 megahertz EA license covering...
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National Instruments announced that it is the first vendor with a manufacturing test license agreement with Broadcom, which will allow NI to provide testing solutions to Broadcom original equipment and design manufacturers.
Broadcom's MTL program is a new one which allows test equipment vendors to...
Rumors of Sprint’s interest in acquiring smaller rival T-Mobile US seem to be hitting a regulatory wall as reports indicate little support for such action from government officials.
Reuters reported that current Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has “expressed expressed his skepticism about...
AT&T Mobility has reportedly stopped offering to pay current T-Mobile US customers up to $450 to switch their mobile service, an offering the carrier began making just last month.
According to The Wall Street Journal, an AT&T spokesman said the offer ended Jan. 31, noting...
Ericsson executive vice president Johan Wibergh became head of the company's networks business in 2008, just before the global recession and the emergence of low-cost Asian competitors delivered something of a one-two punch to the largest part of Ericsson's business. But the company's networks...
Telecommunications infrastructure giant Ericsson announced plans to launch a new lab in support of the OpenDaylight Project community, which is looking to propel the development, testing and verification of software defined networking services. The Ericsson lab, which will be run in conjunction with the...
