This week on HetNet Happenings, host Sean Kinney, managing editor at RCR Wireless News, discusses network planning and optimization solutions with Yann Le Helloco, CTO for software provider InfoVista.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRMwIxlD0HQ
Paris-based Le Helloco serves as both the CTO and SVP of research and development for InfoVista...
Hetnets are heterogeneous networks, wireless networks that combine different technologies in order to maintain the user experience indoors or in crowded urban environments. Operators may use small cells, Wi-Fi and/or distributed antenna systems in combination with macro cells to keep users connected. In deploying...
Wireless network complexity
Wireless networks are becoming more complex. This raises a question: Are we nearing a point where network complexity is moving beyond the capability of humans to manage? Are we already there?
Let’s look at just two data points to get a feeling for...
Nokia Networks provides some reality into NFV and SDN deployment plans
The world of telecom network virtualization has been active as vendors, operators and standards bodies have been working feverishly towards equipment, services and technology taking advantage of network functions virtualization, software-defined networking...
The feds want to detail how wireless infrastructure upgrades will impact historic buildings
The Federal Communications Commission has solicited public comment on how it should consider deployment of small cells and distributed antenna systems in historic buildings.
Specifically, the FCC wants comments by Sept. 28 based...
Sprint said this week that it plans to deploy tens of thousands of small cells as part of its network upgrade. The carrier said it will use network diagnostics to pinpoint the perfect spot for each small cell "down to the street corner level."...
Fiber-to-the-tower expansion supports carrier move toward network densification
Fiber, backhaul and infrastructure services provider Zayo Group this week announced it has sold fiber-to-the-tower services applicable to 800 macro and small cell sites in the past 18 months.
The company estimates the services will yield a more...
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Episode 11 of "IoT Innovation" aired on Aug. 13, featuring Jason Marcheck, service director for Current Analysis. This episodes focused on...
This week on HetNet Happenings Sean Kinney, RCR Wireless News managing editor, discusses trends in the small cells space with Current Analysis Service Director Jason Marcheck.
With major carriers like Sprint eyeing small cell rollouts that analysts predict could hit 70,000 units, Marcheck agreed that...
Tower companies appear to be outspending carriers
U.S. carriers have been selling their tower portfolios to raise cash for spectrum purchases and deployment, and the move away from infrastructure ownership may extend to small cells and distributed antenna systems as well. Two of the three...
Just ahead of releasing its latest quarterly results, Sprint revamps its leadership
In a strange move just hours ahead of its latest quarterly results, Sprint announced a major revamp of its leadership, including a new CFO, COO and CTO.
Current CFO Joseph Euteneuer is set to...
Boingo is a global provider of Wi-Fi, distributed antenna systems and small cell services with access to more than 1 million Wi-Fi hot spots in more than 90 countries connecting more than 22.8 million users. The company deploys its network in multiuser venues such...
This week on HetNet Happenings, RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney discusses network densification with former FCC commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, the current president of PCIA, the Wireless Infrastructure Association.
The pair, joined by RCR Wireless News CEO and Editorial Director Jeff Mucci, discuss challenges...
Still no details of Sprint’s 'Next Generation Network' initiative, which is expected to favor small cells
Speaking this week at the Converge Tech Conference in Hong Kong, SoftBank President Nikesh Arora said the Japanese service provider is committed to making Sprint, its U.S. subsidiary, a...
TIRAP provides DOL-credentialed apprenticeship programs
What is the Telecommunications Industry Registered Apprentice Program? Watch the latest episode of Inside Telecom Careers, hosted by Karla Macias and Jeff Mucci, as they discuss and view a recent interview with Jonathan Adelstein, CEO for PCIA - The Wireless Infrastructure Association.
While details...
Super Bowl, usage growth prompt Verizon rollout of small cells in San Francisco; carrier uses C-RAN architecture
Verizon Wireless said it negotiated the right to place small cells on 400 San Francisco light poles and utility poles by moving "the brains of the network" to...
Samsung has set the date for its next product launch. The world's leading smartphone maker will unveil its new products on August 13 -- in plenty of time to get out ahead of Apple's next launch, which is expected this fall. Samsung has not...
Carriers look to small cells to densify network coverage, particularly in metro areas
With small cells emerging as the go-to technology for carriers looking to densify mobile networks, Verizon Wireless is making moves this week by adding a dozen small cells to Grant Park in...
Huawei has demonstrated a small cell running Wi-Fi and LTE in unlicensed spectrum. The demonstration, conducted with NTT DoCoMo, showed Wi-Fi and licensed-assisted access both operating in the 5 GHz band. Listen-before-talk was used for LTE.
Listen-before-talk is a protocol usually associated with Wi-Fi that...
Verizon Wireless and ExteNet Systems are preparing to deploy more than 400 small cells in SF
Hundreds of San Francisco residents are getting a lesson in small cells this summer, as Verizon Wireless and ExteNet Systems prepare to deploy more than 400 nodes on poles...
Educational training, specifically fiber splicing training, is a key element of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood Electrical Workers (IBEW) negotiated agreement with mobile operators including Verizon and AT&T
Watch RCRtv - Fiber splicing training for CWA and IBEW workers from APT...
ExteNet Systems, a builder and operator of DAS and small cell systems, is set to become part of Digital Bridge Holdings, the investment group that owns Vertical Bridge and Mexico Tower Partners. Along with Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, Digital Bridge is set to buy out...
Analysts say Sprint could bring on a network partner, air concern over vendors keeping pace with operator small cell needs
The much-hyped Sprint network upgrade, which is expected to favor small cells with some estimates predicting 70,000 being deployed, apparently has financial investors and analysts...
Recapitalization to Fuel Long-Term Growth in Rapidly Expanding Small Cell Market
Marc Ganzi, former CEO of Global Tower Partners, which sold to American Tower for $4.8 billion in 2013, assumes role of chairman as part of Extenet Systems' restructuring.
Below is press release announcing the Extenet...
