BROWSING: RAN

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...

2015 Predictions: C-RAN small cells set to take center stage in 2015

Cloud RAN, sometimes abbreviated C-RAN, has been a topic in macro mobile networks for several years now. Wikipedia describes C-RAN as “a centralized, cloud computing-based new radio access network architecture.” Vendors began actively promoting macro C-RAN products this year, and a new company, Altiostar,...

Reader Forum: Virtualized RAN – bridging the network architectures of today and tomorrow

Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we maintain some editorial control...

Reader Forum: Small cells increase venue coverage and capacity through open-RAN

Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we maintain some editorial control...

SPONSORED: SpiderCloud Wireless in the NFV ecosystem – NFV lands in enterprise small cells

A conversation with Art King, Director of Enterprise Services and Technologies, SpiderCloud Wireless Download a transcript of the complete interview now and be the first to receive the complete report when finalized. SpiderCloud takes NFV to the edge – in carrier-driven small-cell deployments in the enterprise,...

Nokia Liquid Radio expands capacity and performance

Nokia Networks announced a wide-reaching set of portfolio enhancements today in support of their Liquid Radio portfolio. As these announcements are touching on many different aspects of the portfolio, I will try to group them into sub-classifications. Carrier Aggregation In order to increase density in metro...

EMEA: CDN in the RAN with Saguna and Akamai

Saguna Networks announced today its work with Akamai to deliver content for mobile subscribers from 4G mobile base stations. The solution will be jointly demonstrated at 4GWorld/CTIA next week. The demonstration will show a content delivery network (CDN) operating within a mobile base station. In...

Empirix acquires RAN real-time analytics company, Verios

Empirix has acquired real-time analytics company Verios Software & Systems for a big data approach to radio access network management and the user experience, with an eye toward creating what it called "the first service operation center (SOC) management solution," and an end-to-end solution...