One of the exciting features the recently finalized 3GPP Rel. 16 brings to 5G is the support for Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB). IABs have the potential to be a game-changer, especially for millimeter Wave (mmWave) deployments by solving the key challenge of backhaul. However,...
Full-duplex is something of a white whale for the wireless industry; Kumu Networks has developed the tech for self-backhauling small cells
Full-duplex communications would allow a node to send and receive data at the same time in the same channel. This would essentially double the...
A startup that grew out of Stanford, Kumu Networks has gradually gone from raising eyebrows and capital, to making major carrier deals, and now is reaching an inflection point, according to Steven Hong, co-founder and director of product at the company.
Kumu said its...
The full duplex relay trial was carried out in the city of Turin
Italian mobile operator TIM carried out what it claims to be the world’s first test of the full duplex relay technology, which doubles the transmission capacity of the current LTE network and...
Bay-Area startup Kumu Networks, which specializes in increasing spectral efficiency with full duplex chip-based technology, raised $25 million in an investment round including Cisco Systems, Verizon Communications and Deutsche Telekom among others.
Kumu says it has developed technology that cancels self-interference, the excess energy that leaks into a...
Ericsson, Duetsche Telekom, China Mobile and others eye the future
As carriers continue the research and development that will inform the next generation of 5G mobile networks, Deutsche Telekom recently announced its new innovation lab, the “5G haus.”
Germany-based DT has partnered with the Stanford University's...
Kumu Networks in business with Telefonica, SK Telecom on path to 5G
BARCELONA, Spain – Kumu Networks, a Bay Area-based company that started as a doctoral project by Stanford University students, announced major carrier deals with players Telefonica and SK Telecom.
Kumu specializes in self-interference cancellation,...
