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By Ernest Worthman… Presently mobile phone networks are required to determine and report the location of E911 emergency calls from phones that are located mostly outdoors. In March, the FCC regulators announced plans for new rules to report, accurately, the location of emergency calls made from smartphones inside buildings. The current E911, Phase 1, rule… Continue »
By Ernest Worthman… Roughly 45 percent of global wireless traffic was offloaded to Wi-Fi hotspots or femtocells.in 2013, according to Cisco Systems, and this data will continue to increase each year until offloaded traffic surpasses that which stays on the mobile network. By 2017, Wi-Fi will account for 48 percent of the global IP traffic… Continue »
Steve Perlman, Artemis Networks founder and CEO, recently went back to his alma mater, Columbia University, to demonstrate the pWave technology that his company and PureWave Networks have been working on together. Ten years in development, the personal cell (pCell) technology is a software-defined radio C-RAN connected through fronthaul to radios distributed throughout the coverage… Continue »
An industry report predicts a $10 billion market for small cells in 2018, and provides a scientific formula for the tipping point when mass deployments may occur. Small Cells 2014 from Mobile Experts provides analysis of small cells in mobile networks, highlighting the technical and economic factors that drive the use of femtocells, picocells and… Continue »
By Ernest Worthman… Radisys has struck a deal with Broadcom to integrate its Trillium TOTALeNodeB 2.0 small cell software with Broadcoms 617xx Series dual-mode system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. This integrated product enables mobile operators to deploy a dual-mode LTE-FDD/LTE-TDD small cells. What makes this interesting is that the solution can add needed bandwidth and coverage for… Continue »
If there was any question about cable involvement as a Wi-Fi service provider Comcast should have put that to rest this this week as it surpassed one million Wi-Fi hotspots across the nation. Access to the Xfinity Wi-Fi network to customers is a priority for Comcast, according to Marcien Jenckes, executive vice president of Consumer… Continue »
