VoLTE Has Come a Long Way in a Short Time

Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is making significant progress, and it is making it quickly. LTE was designed as a data-only service. Voice calls fall back onto the existing 3G network. That approach is clearly inefficient, and led to a concerted effort to upgrade LTE to...

Deploy HetNets as Fast and Cheap as Wi-Fi

Parallel Wireless, Inc. has unveiled commercially ready 3GPP-compliant end-to-end virtualized RAN reference designs based on collaboration with Intel. The innovative designs integrate 3G, 4G/LTE, Wi-Fi, real-time network orchestration and resource optimization so that...

Some Stops along the DAS Evolutionary Path

Over the past couple years, discussing 5G in increasingly detailed terms has become a virtual sport in wireless.  But behind all the news and discussion are the real standardization initiatives and research driving the technology forward, which in aggregate has...