One take away from the recent Competitive Carriers Association Fall 2013 event was the desire by many rural operators to move into the LTE space, both to cater to customer demand as well as to tap into the spectrum efficiencies inherent in the LTE...
Cisco has packed 4 billion transistors onto a single chip in an effort to create the world's most scalable and programable network processor. The company says it is targeting the Internet of Everything (IoE) with its nPower X1, which it calls "the first generation...
AT&T has opened its fourth Foundry location for established companies and start-ups to develop new products and services. The Foundry location in Atlanta is hosted by Cisco Systems, and will focus on connected home technology. mobility and the Internet of things.
Paul Mankiewich, CTO and...
Cisco has opened a center of innovation in Rio de Janeiro. The center will integrate Cisco’s portfolio with technology from local players to create solutions that meet the needs of the Brazilian market. During the ceremony, Robert Lloyd, Cisco’s president for development and sales,...
Earlier this month, BlackBerry announced that it was considering a number of strategic options including selling the company. My first reaction was sadness – similar to the time when I heard that
Infonetics said this week that Huawei has earned the top spot in its 2012 Telecommunications Equipment Vendor Leadership Scorecard. Ericsson was a very close second, followed by Cisco. Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Solutions and Networks and ZTE round out the top six telecom vendors. Infonetics says...
Spectrum spat
AT&T came out swinging this week with a hard-hitting response to T-Mobile's proposed "dynamic market rule" for upcoming 600 MHz spectrum auctions. T-Mobile U.S. wants to limit the amount of spectrum any carrier can acquire in a given market, with caps gradually increasing...
Cisco (CSCO) is clearly in the process of transforming its business, and the changes are prompting the networking giant to shift its workforce. CEO John Chambers says that in order to "rebalance" its employee base Cisco will lay off 4,000 people, or 5% of...
Security consultants at iSEC Partners have demonstrated a security breach in femtocells made by Samsung and sold by Verizon Wireless. Although both companies say the breach has now been fixed, ISEC believes the problem may not be unique to one product or one vendor,...
Cisco recently announced a new core router with 10 times the capacity of the original equipment in the series, aiming to support the traffic demands that operators are facing.
The Carrier Routing System-X (CRS-X) is a 400 Gbps per slot system that can be expanded...
Some interesting news came out of last week's Small Cell Summit 2013: half a dozen companies have formed a small cell wireless backhaul ecosystem around Cisco's unified RAN backhaul offering, which is a vendor-neutral support for any access technology.
The companies include Blinq, DragonWave, Fastback...
Vodafone, SK Telecom and Cisco were among the operators and vendors honored for their small cell innovation efforts by The Small Cell Forum, an industry and operator association. Awards were presented at a recent gala in London.
The awards, judged by an independent panel of...
Cisco has been boosting its portfolio in the heterogeneous networks arena with a series of recent acquisitions, aiming to become a star player in the small cell space.
The company has purchased Intucell for self-organizing network software that reduces interference in small cell deployment, BroadHop...
MetroPCS has rescheduled its shareholder vote on the proposed merger with T-Mobile USA. The meeting originally scheduled for today will take place on April 24 in order to give shareholders more time to consider the sweetened offer made this week by Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile...
Cisco continued its move into mobility this week with the purchase of Ubiquisys for $310 million. Ubiquisys is a British developer of small cell technologies with several major carrier and vendor customers, including Google, T-Mobile USA and Softbank.
The acquisition highlights Cisco's growing focus...
Clearwire appears to want the best of both worlds. The company says it's still talking to Dish Networks about a possible buyout, but it can't resist Sprint Nextel's cold hard cash. This week the company borrowed another $80 million from Sprint, taking it one...
Alcatel-Lucent demonstrated interoperable voice and data technology for the FirstNet board this week in Boulder, Colo., showcasing how voice over LTE and presence information might be used by first responders who are expected to adopt service over the future nationwide LTE public safety network...
RCR Wireless News spoke with Daryl Schoolar, principal infrastructure analyst at Ovum, to get his impressions of the recent Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain. Schoolar noted that with some relief a number of topics he predicted would garner attention at the show...
Network virtualization is on its way.
If nothing else was clear from MWC 2013, it’s that networks are on the road to becoming less hardware and more software. Vendors and mobile operators are setting up for a radical change in how they conceive and build...
Earnings news, product announcements and the latest from FirstNet. RCR Wireless brings you up to date on the week's news.
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Wi-Fi is increasingly important to mobile operators and their customers, with 50% of smartphone usage already occurring on Wi-Fi networks, according to data from Cisco. Service providers recognize Wi-Fi as a way to relieve network congestion and improve service quality.
As devices and networks become...
Sometime between 2015 and 2016, 3G connections will surpass 2G in Latin America. After that point, 3G connections could rise to reach 58% of total accesses by 2017; 2G will still represent 37%, while LTE will account for 5%. These projections were showed at...
Cisco reduced the predicted increase in Brazilian mobile data traffic in this year’s Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, which gives the company's predictions for the period of 2012 to 2017. Brazil’s mobile data traffic is now expected to increase 12-fold from...
