BROWSING: BDA

Rohde & Schwarz White Paper: Detecting & Locating Interference from Bidirectional Amplifiers

Oscillation caused by insufficient path loss between a bidirectional amplifier’s (BDA) donor and serving antennas is one of the most common and most serious forms of interference in cellular networks.   This white paper provides a general overview of how BDAs work, the conditions leading to...

Discovering big data unknowns

Big data analytics often deal with identifying trends in known areas. But what about unrealized and newly emerging trends amid the spam? How do you recognize the big data "unknowns"? Katherine Matsumoto, natural language processing expert and product manager for Attensity, said that amid spam...

Exploring 5 big data training programs

With big data expertise in high demand, both universities and private companies are ramping up their education programs and big data training. Gartner expects that the BDA market will have 4.4 million jobs available by 2015, but only about one-third of them will be filled. So...

Big Data & Analytics: Gartner calls analytics a top trend for 2015

Editor's Note: The ecosystem of big data analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile marketing, location-based services and more. Here is a look at the week's big data news. --...

IBM focuses on big data and executives with Wharton program

Continuing its investment in education programs related to big data analytics, IBM announced a partnership with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for an executive program focused on the use of big data analytics for marketing and customer engagement. Earlier this year, IBM...

Big data and analytics: ABI sees ‘new era’ for location services

Editor's Note: The ecosystem of big data analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile marketing, location-based services and more. Here is a look at the week's big data...

Napatech on big data, SDN and NFV in telecom networks

Napatech's Dan Joe Barry, VP of marketing, discussed big data trends with RCR Wireless News that include software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). Napatech develops appliance accelerators for networks to enable them to keep up with data flows and processing in the telecom...

Big Data Analytics: Teradata acquires Think Big Analytics

Editor's Note: The ecosystem of big data analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile marketing, location-based services and more. Here is a look at the week's news in...

Big Data & Analytics: IBM provides mobile apps, analytics for US Open

Editor's Note: The ecosystem of big data and analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile marketing, location-based services and more. Here is a look at the week's big...

'Exponential ROI,' retail revenue expected from big data analytics

Two new reports on the implementation of big data analytics pinpoint the potential that telecom operators — and many other verticals — are hoping to benefit from by relying more heavily on data to fuel decisions from marketing to business operations to network management. Frost...