by John Hayes - DASpedia | Apr 3, 2015 | News
The report “Small Cell Backhaul Market by Access Technology Generation (2G, 3G, and 4G/LTE), by Backhaul Technology (Copper, Fiber, Millimeter wave, Microwave, Sub-6 GHz, and Satellite) – Worldwide Market Forecasts and Analysis (2014 – 2019)”defines...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Apr 2, 2015 | News
CORNING, N.Y. -Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) announced today that it has acquired iBwave Solutions, Inc. The terms of the acquisition agreement were not released. Based in Montreal, Canada, iBwave is an industry leader in design software for in-building wireless...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Apr 1, 2015 | News
Analysis Finds Cloud RAN Small Cells Save 69% of Costs vs. DAS Airvana, a leading provider of small cell solutions, and Real Wireless, independent expert advisors in wireless technology, today announced a study revealing that a Cloud RAN small cell solution can reduce...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 30, 2015 | News
With commercial availability of 5G cellular networks projected for 2020 – the same year analysts expect there will be some 50 billion connected devices – Ericsson is ramping up investment in research and development that looks beyond LTE. Ericsson on March 25...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 28, 2015 | News
Intel is reportedly in talks for a $10 billion-plus takeover of basestation chipmaker Altera. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday afternoon that Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) is in talks to buy Altera Corp. (Nasdaq: ALTR). Terms and timing on the deal are not...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 26, 2015 | News
In-building distributed antenna systems (DASs) are used to enhance cellular coverage within buildings, providing wireless customers better coverage and/or capacity while indoors, thereby greatly enhancing the user experience. They can be designed for a single wireless...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 26, 2015 | News
Can G.fast play a role in the backhaul strategies of major telcos? BT Group plc (NYSE: BT; London: BTA) clearly thinks so. The UK incumbent operator, which has already made public its plans to deploy G.fast technology in its fixed broadband access network, is one of a...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 24, 2015 | News
While almost entirely theoretical at this point, 5G has already captured the telecom industry’s imagination. Although the technology isn’t expected to make an appearance in networks until around 2020, early 5G research and contemplation has begun, and some experts...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 24, 2015 | News
In-building cellular systems vary in complexity and capability. Wireless solutions are often more cost effective and faster to implement and maintain which augment the scalability and flexibility of several processes.
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 20, 2015 | News
In looking at the consensus numbers, the sell-side analysts covering the stock have a mean target price of $136.5 for SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:SBAC). This number is the mean estimate from the 8 research brokerages that recently issued reports on the...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 19, 2015 | News
T-Mobile only closed its first deal for 700MHz low-band spectrum with Verizon 12 months ago. Since then, it’s acquired more band 12 airwaves from a number of small, mostly independent companies and has enough to now cover 190 million people. And it has set itself a...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 17, 2015 | News
Fastback Networks and Sub10 Systems are merging to try to address the need for new backhaul capabilities for LTE and future 5G networks. In the cellular world, the backhaul portion of the network connects the cell sites to the backbone network. As 3G and 4G have...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 16, 2015 | News
AUSTIN, Texas – AT&T has deployed a super cell on wheels equipped with a Luneburg Lens, which is designed to provide 10 times the capacity of the more common single-beam antenna, to keep those attending Austin’s annual South by Southwest event connected. The...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 13, 2015 | News
OpenSignal, a London based company published its “The State of LTE report” based on its findings on the major 2 criteria : speed and coverage of 4G LTE for different countries. The report was based on its huge data base received from its “crowdsourced sensor network”...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 12, 2015 | News
Gilat Satellite Networks and Intelsat have joined forces to provide Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) with a 2G/3G cellular infrastructure solution with the aim to better serve rural regions. The companies expect the network to enter service in 2016.
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 11, 2015 | News
Apple will reportedly turn to Intel’s new XMM 7360 LTE modem when it launches a special next-generation iPhone model in 2016, suggesting the company is looking to diversify baseband chip suppliers.
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 10, 2015 | News
In wireless technology electromagnetic waves carry information in the form of a signal over a communication channel or path. Cellular phones, GPS (global positioning system), home-entertainment-system control boxes, cordless telephone sets, remote garage-door openers,...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 9, 2015 | News
Analysts at Wall Street financial firm New Street Research said that AT&T Mobility (NYSE: T) is preparing to begin building out a network running on its WCS spectrum licenses. The firm also said that AT&T likely will ramp up its spending on its network after...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 7, 2015 | News
Lumos Networks CEO Tim Biltz says the company expects to see more requests for proposals (RFPs) from its wireless carrier customers for small cell backhaul and dark fiber. Speaking to investors during the fourth-quarter earnings call, Biltz said that through...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 6, 2015 | News
Avea, a new entrant to Turkey’s mobile scene is leveraging NEC’s small cell gateway solution to boost mobile connectivity at home and work. Avea will use NEC’s small cell gateway to manage its residential femtocells and enterprise-grade indoor small...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 3, 2015 | News
Google Inc. wants to make the wireless industry less exclusive by facilitating the use of cheap airwaves to lower the barriers to entry, a top executive said Tuesday. The comments by Google executive Milo Medin came a day after the company acknowledged it plans to...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Mar 2, 2015 | News
Radisys® Corporation (NASDAQ: RSYS), the services acceleration company, and Benetel, an innovative small cell eNodeB hardware platform company, today announced that they have partnered to deliver a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) targeted base station platform. The...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Feb 27, 2015 | News
To address the increasing demand for mobile data, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is extending LTE to unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U), and today announced that it has integrated the technology into its latest small cell...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Feb 25, 2015 | News
Sprint might be prepping the addition of 9000 LTE sites to its network if a report from S4GRU.com are to be believed. Citing anonymous sources from inside Sprint, S4GRU reports that the new sites will include the lighting up of 1,100 decommissioned iDen sites; 1,600...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Feb 24, 2015 | News
The city of Los Angeles Department of Transportation is looking to help keep riders connected by deploying cellular and public Wi-Fi solutions in city buses and subway tunnels. The city is currently testing Wi-Fi deployments on just nine city buses. Officials are...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Feb 19, 2015 | News
Verizon is putting aside $500 million for network densification, led by small cells, in certain markets, the carrier’s CFO said Tuesday. Speaking on an investor call outlining its recent $10.43 billion spend on AWS spectrum in the Federal Communications...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Feb 18, 2015 | News
SAN DIEGO — Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has introduced four new Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processors aimed at enhancing user experience and connectivity for high-performance and...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Feb 18, 2015 | News
CommScope unveils a new distributed antenna system (DAS) portfolio for the European market. CommScope’s new ION-U, unified, low and high power DAS, supports five frequency bands common to Europe, and can be used to extend wireless coverage and capacity in many...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Feb 13, 2015 | News
TESSCO Technologies Incorporated (NASDAQ: TESS), a leading provider of the product and value chain solutions required to build, use and maintain wireless systems, announced today that it will distribute multiple power products from GE’s Critical Power business (NYSE:...
by John Hayes - DASpedia | Feb 12, 2015 | News
Study predicts peak hour smartphone use will increase 50% and over-the-top video will triple mobile bandwidth requirements in the next three years