Losing contact in modern society — physically, digitally — is a new kind of scary. We’ve seen this before: five years ago, Hurricane Sandy’s floodwaters and winds downed communications networks for one of every four people on the Eastern Seaboard. During the recovery, the...
With commercial 5G radios targeting mobile applications being a probable reality by 4Q18, both new entrants and existing vendors are ramping up their R&D efforts in the hope of capitalizing on the impending shift from 4G to 5G. Ambitions are high not only because...
Working with municipal stakeholders cuts costs, increases speed of rural deployments
Of the more than 30 million people in the United States without access to the internet, some 6 million of them are students, Skyler Dithfield, CEO of service provider Geolinks, told RCR Wireless News...
Airports, subways, etc...a good fit for CBRS small cells
The 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band is the subject of much attention in the telecom community. As the U.S. Federal Communications Commission works toward formalizing a three-tiered spectrum access systems to divvy up...
The role of wireless infrastructure in the enterprise has been steadily expanding since the introduction of Wi-Fi – so for about two decades. In some Asian countries, operators have deployed in-building infrastructure in the enterprise for a long time, driven by high indoor usage...
Analysts see growth for equipment providers regardless of FCC decision
Companies from inside and outside the wireless industry are excited about the Federal Communications Commission's plan to make more spectrum available in the 3550-3700 MHz band. Citizens broadband radio service, or CBRS, could deliver the...
A conversation with Ken Sandfeld, President, SOLiD America, SOLiD
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As the enterprise relentlessly moves to wireless as the default communication modality in all locations, the role of wireless connectivity changes and performance requirements grow. Wi-Fi continues to be the fundamental technology for indoor data traffic, but cellular and other technologies play an increasingly...
A conversation with Werner Sievers, CEO, Nextivity
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Most enterprise wireless infrastructure is indoors – offices, warehouses, factories, retail outlets. The big venues are mostly covered, and they...
A conversation with Asha Keddy, Vice President of Next Generation and Standards, Intel
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A conversation with JP Compagnucci, Market Development Global Leader in Enterprise Mobility, CommScope
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A conversation with Jan Geldmacher, President, Sprint Business Sprint: A deeper reach into the enterprise.
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The Federal Communications Commission has been working for several years on freeing up access to 150 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz CBRS band. Those frequencies are currently used by Department of Defense radar installations and for fixed satellite services. The current plan...
The United States is big--around 3.8-million-square-miles--and has widely varied geography. As such, providing true nationwide broadband service is a heavy lift. And, naturally, service providers only have so much money to invest in network builds meaning that population centers take priority over rural areas....
CBRS focus often on private LTE for enterprise and industry, but what what the fixed wireless access use case targeting rural broadband deployments?
The rugged Sierra Nevada foothills, which range to the northeast and southeast of Sacramento, Calif., are a difficult place to provide reliable...
As CBRS awaits the regulatory go-ahead, operator and vendor interest continues to pick up
In the 5G future--ideally at least--we'll see dynamic radio support for any blend of licensed, unlicensed and shared spectrum. To that last point, in the U.S. the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband...
Spectrum Access System admin says spectrum controller is an industry first
Federated Wireless, one of the Spectrum Access System administrators for the 3.5 GHz ecosystem, says it is bringing spectrum sharing closer to reality with the commercial availability of its cloud-based spectrum controller to enable...
This paper addresses LTE radio performance in the 3.5 GHz band and how it compares with TDD band 40 (2300-2400 MHz). Experiments have been carried out for throughput Range versus Rate, CQI variation, MCS distribution, and SINR on different path loss. Based on these...
Nokia product launches focus on digital transformation for the enterprise
Cellular connectivity is essential for an always-on enterprise whether it's supporting a global sales team or internet of things-type deployments in a smart factory. As operators look to better support enterprises, private networks built on...
Spectrum sharing looks beyond exclusive-license models for spectrum use
Spectrum is a finite resource, and regulators and the wireless industry are always looking for ways to open up additional bands for wireless service use in order to address capacity issues. However, the general consensus is...
The CBRS test used four-channel carrier aggregation
Verizon and Ericsson today announced a joint test of a Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) small cell using four-channel carrier aggregation combining licensed spectrum with two 20 megahertz channels in the 3.5 GHz CBRS band. Qualcomm provided an...
Neutral host provider ExteNet Systems is looking to incorporate CBRS technology into its distributed network approach. Integration of spectrum support for the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service is, as currently envisioned, based on a three-tiered priority approach, which could potentially allow new entrants...
Shared access to the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadcast Radio Service (CBRS) band is getting a lot of attention lately with Nokia asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to demo CBRS small cells in Philadelphia for Comcast, and, now Verizon asking the FCC to...
In April cable and media powerhouse Comcast launched a branded wireless service to customers under the moniker Xfinity Mobile, a mobile telecom service delivered on the Verizon Wireless network under the terms of a mobile virtual network operator agreement struck as part of a...
