CommScope sees market opportunity, TCO, ecosystem support and convergence all making the case for in-building Open RAN
Reflecting on the typical 10-year cellular generation cycle, as well as the roughly 20-year lifecycle of a G, CommScope’s Luigi Tarlazzi, vice president of engineering, pointed out that...
Nokia is working with Industry 4.0 giant Rockwell Automation to test private 5G in standalone (SA) mode in the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band in the US. Specifically, they are looking at private 5G for control and automation of industrial assets using industrial Ethernet (EtherNet/IP)...
Telecom infrastructure company CommScope reported year-over-year lower sales during the second quarter, with its connectivity and cabling business a bright spot and weak sales in its access network and its Networking, Intelligent Cellular & Security Solutions (NICS) unit.
The company saw improvements in sales from...
Amphenol will buy CommScope's outdoor and indoor cellular infrastructure units for $2.1 billion
CommScope has struck a deal to sell its Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) business unit and its Outdoor Wireless Networks (OWN) unit to Amphenol for about $2.1 billion.
The transaction is expected to...
How can enterprise networks better meet the unique needs of hospitality, education, healthcare and other industries in 2024?
It’s admittedly a tall order. Networks are now expected to address a variety of use cases, each with unique performance demands, while delivering 24/7 accessibility. Engineering the...
CommScope is bringing Open RAN indoors with updates to flagship DAS and small cell product
Ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, CommScope announced support for third-party Open RAN Distributed Units (O-DUs) on its flagship all-digital ERA distributed antenna system (DAS) as well as its...
Under this order, HFCL will provide products and services to BSNL to support 4G and 5G network requirements
Indian telecom gear company HFCL has secured an order worth INR 1.79 billion ($21.55 million) from state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to supply 4G and 5G...
US network equipment vendor CommScope and UK neutral host provider Boldyn Networks have deployed Wi-Fi 7 indoor access points in selected areas of the 65,000-seat Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. They have claimed a 60 percent jump in Wi-Fi throughput, reaching 900Mbps, compared...
Sustainability is fast becoming a business imperative for the telecoms industry, driven by factors such as the UN's Race to Zero Campaign, rising energy costs, complex 5G deployments and heightened customer and shareholder expectations.RCR Wireless News' latest report, a companion piece to Telco Sustainability Forum, deep...
There are 2,900 private LTE/5G networks across the world at the end of 2023, including trial and pilot deployments. So says Berg Insight, which calculates a quarter (700; 24 percent) are based on 5G, with close to half of these in trial mode, but...
AT&T said it is looking at trying to turn some circuits down as users migrate from legacy technologies such as DSL to fiber
Operators are facing the challenge of having to deploy more hardware to meet the appetite of users for more data while at...
A session at Telco Sustainability Forum, hosted by RCR Wireless last week, considered how private networks are a driver for enterprises to drive efficiency and productivity, and reduce their carbon emissions along the way. The panel comprised Amit Kohli, senior solution director and sustainability...
CommScope is currently supplying cables, microwave antennas, filters and switches to Indian telcos Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio Infocomm
U.S. company CommScope said it is currently in talks with Indian state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to potentially secure telecoms contracts with the company,...
Wireless operators are devoting significant attention to deployments of indoor 5G coverage for large venues, transportation hubs, commercial developments and other high-density public or semi-public spaces. Since the majority of cellular traffic originates indoors, this is hardly surprising; macro networks have difficulty penetrating indoor...
Cloud-based AIOps take Wi-Fi from a best-effort art to a highly reliable network science, which is essential for meeting the stringent service-level requirements of digital-age applications.
Wireless networks have evolved into an indispensable part of daily life. Sophisticated enterprise use cases are driving up both...
JTower’s tower sharing business will provide shared access to CommScope’s Mosaic and HELIAX products to network operators
CommScope said it has been selected by Japanese firm JTower, which provides telecommunications infrastructure sharing services, to form a partnership for the provision of greater access to shared...
US telecoms software and services outfit Amdocs has claimed to have developed a bunch of new private 5G use cases at its sandbox lab in Dallas, Texas. The new applications, being prepped for show at MWC in a couple of weeks, include 5G-sprung scenarios...
Go to any busy large public venue, and you’ll be surrounded by people on their mobile devices. No matter if it’s an 80,000-seat open-air stadium, a large theatre presenting a concert, a casino or major hotel, you’ll find thousands of visitors talking, texting, live...
Open RAN has been the subject of earnest development for a number of years and has seen large-scale commercial deployment by three major global operators building new networks with significant commitments from many large brownfield CSPs. Reducing TCO through vendor competition, component commoditization and...
As part of the agreement, the firm will install the CommScope’s ERA All-Digital DAS
CommScope said it has been selected by Spurs Sports & Entertainment (SS&E) to provide mobile connectivity at AT&T Center, home of the San Antonio Spurs basketball team.
Under the terms of the...
The total number of private LTE and 5G networks will increase to 13,500 installations globally by 2026, according to analyst group Berg Insight; this is a 10-fold increase, roughly, from a figure today of “more than” 1,000 private LTE deployments and 200–300 private 5G...
CommScope announced that Vodafone Germany will deploy its Touchstone TG6442 DOCSIS 3.1 cable gateways to deliver Wi-Fi 6 performance to millions of subscribers across Germany.
CommScope said that this deployment will enable Vodafone Germany to improve its customers’ in-home Wi-Fi connections and deliver faster broadband...
CommScope and Meta will develop a mMIMO reference design based on O-RAN Alliance interoperability specifications
CommScope and Meta Connectivity are collaborating on flexible and open reference designs to accelerate the adoption of Open RAN. Working alongside a network of industry ecosystem companies in the Evenstar...
As more people worked remotely during the early stages of the pandemic, operators shifted investment to fixed infrastructure underpinning home broadband connections. Looking to 2022, we’ll see renewed focus on the growth of 4G and time spent on evaluating the most pragmatic ways to add capacity and capability into 5G deployment plans. We see three major trends in the market...
