Building out a wireless network is expensive, and most of the CAPEX is related to the radio access network (RAN) segment, reaching as high as 80% of total network cost.
For decades, operators have been “locked in” to legacy RAN vendors, like Huawei, Ericsson and...
The mistakes companies make over time put them in the crosshairs of the U.S. government for antitrust and monopoly action. Suddenly the heat is being turned up for successful tech firms like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Twitter and others. While being a monopoly is...
Terragraph uses 60 GHz band for high-speed wireless
As it continues to develop wireless network solutions via the Telecom Infra Project, Facebook is building momentum around its Terragraph solution. At the TIP Summit in London this week, it appears Terragraph is gaining momentum as operators...
Elefante Group wants FCC to open 5G spectrum in 22 GHz, 23 GHz, 26 GHz, 70 GHz and 80 GHz bands
Startup The Elefante Group wants to provide wide area 5G coverage from "airships" located 65,000 feet above earth. The firm, which is working Lockheed...
From metro rings to long-haul and subsea transmission, the world's networks--wireless and wireline--depend on fiber optic cable. And, given the costly nature of fiber deployments, it's essential to maximize the efficiency and capacity of existing assets.
To that end, dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) has...
BARCELONA, Spain – Following weeks of rumors, Samsung finally unveiled its latest flagship smartphone just ahead of this week's Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain. As predicted, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, but what no one expected was the...
Cloud providers Amazon.com, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are driving demand for white box servers
The explosion in demand for streaming video content – to both homes and mobile devices – has set the stage for cloud-based content delivery, supported by constantly expanding server-packed data centers.
In...
Some new numbers make two important points about social media giant Facebook: Facebook apps are driving user engagement, and mobile is driving Facebook.
A new report from telecom analytics firm Mobidia, in partnership with ABI Research, looked at data from millions of smartphone users and...
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