BROWSING: RAN

Increasing spectral efficiency in the RAN by optimizing transmission in the core

A conversation about RAN optimization with Ofer Gottfried, CTO, Flash Networks Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the Getting the best QoE report Policy is a crucial driver for operators to meet QoE targets, to allocate their existing network resources efficiently, and...

VoLTE calls drop 3-4 times as much as 2G/3G, Amdocs finds

Voice-over-LTE users can encounter three to four times as many dropped calls as they experience on legacy voice systems, according to Amdocs' annual State of the Radio Access Network report. The call drop numbers are an average, cautioned Graham Wright, product marketing manager with Amdocs,...

Analyst Angle: Combined RAN market share for the ‘new’ Nokia

Is it three or two? With the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent now completed at Nokia, we believe that a review of the RAN market share for the combined new company is in order. We will have our updated 2015 radio transceiver (TRx) and base station market...

Ushering in the Dawn of a New Era in Radio Access Network (sponsored content)

Tewksbury, Massachusetts, USA – December 14, 2015 – Altiostar announces the general availability of its game-changing Virtualized RAN solution for the LTE and LTE-A market based on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and open source software. A year ago, Altiostar announced its unique C-RAN solution with...

Reader Forum: Mobile edge computing moving into closer RANge

The emerging mobile edge computing ecosystem and value chain are complex with diverse technologies and a mounting number of companies – large and small – entering the MEC arena seemingly every day. Mobile edge computing is an up-and-coming advancement in the wireless industry that,...

Using QoE to optimize network performance? Not trivial, but necessary

The desire to optimize the mobile network is a no-brainer. Who could possibly not want to extract the best performance, the most revenues out of the existing, already deployed mobile network infrastructure? Indeed, mobile operators have been optimizing their networks from the beginning, trying to pack as...

Feature Report: The smart RAN – Trends in the optimization of spectrum and network resource utilization

This report on smart RAN will provide an overview and assessment of new technologies and solutions that optimize mobile traffic management to deliver a better performance and QoE, by improving network resource utilization. The report will discuss how real-time traffic management and virtualization will...

Analyst Angle: Tuning the RAN in real time to optimize end-to-end performance

A conversation with Vicent Soler, CTO RAN Optimization, Astellia Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the smart RAN report At Astellia, troubleshooting, monitoring, automation and geolocation are the three pillars to support RAN optimization. With Vicent Soler, CTO RAN Optimization of...

Analyst Angle Webinar: RAN Optimization

This webinar provides an overview and assessment of new technologies and solutions that optimize mobile traffic management to deliver a better performance and QoE, by improving network resource utilization. What you will learn:  RAN traffic optimization, SON and HetNets, interference management, Densification and emerging topologies: small...

Analyst Angle: Automation, small cells, and CA to increase network resource utilization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d13wjFG_T0Q A conversation with Stephen Howell, General Manager, Wireless Network, Engineering Department, Telstra Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the smart RAN report Telstra has been very proactive in moving towards automated RAN optimization, small cells, and carrier aggregation (CA). In...

Analyst Angle: The evolution of RAN optimization in a C-RAN environment

A conversation with Femi Adeyemi LTE Solutions Architect, Fujitsu Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the smart RAN report The transition to C-RAN and fronthaul has started with operators gradually moving to the new architecture to realize a better utilization...

Analyst Angle: End-to-end, real-time solutions to optimize RAN performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N89YK4rDnS8 A conversation with Kashif Hussain, Solutions Marketing Manager, Viavi Solutions Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the smart RAN report In our conversation with Kashif Hussain, Solutions Marketing Manager at Viavi Solutions (until recently JDSU), we talked of how RAN optimization is...

Analyst Angle: The evolution in RAN optimization to improve QoE

A conversation with Ian Miller, director of radio access networks, Telefónica Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the smart RAN report The complexity of mobile networks is increasing as their performance and capacity improve. This makes the task of optimizing the radio...

Analyst Angle: Taming traffic spikes at the edge for better customer experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM7L_fVvW48 A conversation on customer experience with John Reister, VP of marketing and product management, Vasona Networks Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the smart RAN report Data traffic is typically very spiky. Even during congestion periods, wireless network transmission alternates...

Analyst Angle: The evolution in RAN optimization tools for small cells, C-RAN and IoT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq_g9vmcqJ4 A conversation with Said Mokbel, VP of wireless technology development, chief technology office, TELUS Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the smart RAN report The way mobile operators optimize the radio access network and maximize RAN resource utilization is changing as mobile...

Analyst Angle: Real-time RAN performance and QoE metrics to optimize the RAN dynamically

https://youtu.be/203yzYqrPtA A conversation with David FitzGerald, director of the office of the CTO, Ascom Network Testing Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive The smart RAN report How does the way we optimize the radio access network change in a network environment...

HetNet Gateway: Conquering the complexity of multi-vendor, multi-technology HetNets

The term “HetNets” refers not only to heterogeneity across network technologies, but also to the variety of backhaul technologies and packet cores. As a result of this network variability, there is a need for easy and cost-effective orchestration of all this complexity. HetNet Gateway (HNG)...

Reader Forum: Dissecting the 5G RAN where flexibility and fine integration will be king

In this third of our “5G is coming!” series of articles, we look at the radio access network and its transformation projected in the “5G” era. As outlined in our first article, 5G is about supporting the Internet of everything and has therefore the...

RAN virtualization explained

Hardware vs. software is one of the biggest questions wireless network architects face as they design networks that can handle not only today's traffic but tomorrow's as well. There is no shortage of purpose-built hardware for mobile networks, and there is also no shortage of...

Reader Forum: The road to 5G begins in the cloud (RAN)

There is agreement in the telecom industry that the future of wireless networks is “5G.” However, ask anyone in the industry to define 5G and you’ll get many different answers. As the industry works out what the next generation of wireless technology will ultimately...

Tale of two markets: network backbone and RAN

Telco equipment spending is posting double-digit gains, driven by purchases of network backbone equipment and data center solutions as the radio access equipment market levels off. U.S. telecommunications network equipment spending rose 8.9% to $279.3 billion, according to the Telecommunication Industry Association's annual ICT market...

EMEA: Vasona Networks and Telefónica UK team up to ease RAN congestion

Vasona Networks has announced that it is teaming up with Telefónica UK for a pilot deployment of its platforms for mobile network capacity, resource management and intelligence. The deployment follows successful trials allowing for real-time network traffic visibility resulting in active session management across individual...

EMEA: Amdocs state of the RAN

Amdocs has released its annual State of the RAN report this week, which looks at the implications of increasing data usage growth and LTE as a solution to that challenge. The methodology for the report takes a global view on those topics with a focus on busy city locations....

Reader Forum: C-RAN – virtualization of the radio access network

Network virtualization in the data center and the wide-area network became a mainstream trend in 2014. Discussions around how the network would adapt to support the highly virtualized compute and storage infrastructure in data centers has given rise to network solution vendors – old...