Category Archives: Wi-Fi

The borderless business: enterprises await LTE

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Posted on March 26, 2012 by admin

Creating the borderless business is set to become a priority for the enterprise market in the coming years. In February, a report by Informa Telecoms & Media predicted that small cell deployments are set to be dominated by femtocells with the installed base growing from 2.5 million in 2012 to 59 million in 2016 – a 2400% increase. More interesting is the …

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A happy marriage of Wi-Fi and 3G: integrated devices the future for residential femtocells

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Posted on February 23, 2012 by admin

By Robert Mackinnon, NETGEAR This week, we joined forces with Alcatel-Lucent and Broadcom to launch an integrated Wi-Fi and Small Cell router with Femtocell technology. We believe that by bringing femtocell technology into an established fixture in the living room (or study or back bedroom), could boost femtocell usage substantially. Service providers are clearly signalling a need for integrated devices …

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Solving the Capacity Crunch: Small Cells’ role in a 4G LTE Network

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Posted on May 5, 2011 by admin

Mobile operators planning their 4G LTE networks should view femtocells as an integral part of their network architecture. With femtocells, operators can tap diverse new review streams while also delivering on subscribers’ expectations for seamless mobile broadband coverage, wherever they are, whatever they are doing. Few operators expected the staggering growth in mobile internet traffic we have seen since the …

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Monetizing the five-bar lifestyle with femtocells

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Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

By Aditya Kaul Femtocells have been largely seen as a cost effective voice-based coverage solution that works out of the box, helping unfortunate mobile users that suffer with poor coverage in their homes and offices. However, the value proposition of femtocells goes beyond being just a coverage solution, or a ‘churn-reduction’ tool. The end-game for femtocells is about enabling a …

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Network offloading vital, but is Wi-Fi up to the task?

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Posted on January 20, 2011 by admin

By Malek Shahid By 2013, global mobile data traffic will exceed two terabytes a month[1]. Video streaming, social media applications and smartphone signaling are the chief culprits. This data tsunami will swamp mobile network architectures, and operators face the challenge of finding the right way to offload it. An ABI Research study, Mobile Network Offloading, forecasts that mobile data offloading …

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Small cells to infill 4G networks

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Posted on October 15, 2010 by admin

By Stewart Baines Following the recent post about analysts recognizing the gathering momentum in femtocell shipments and service revenues, Yankee Group has also acknowledged that the femto’s time has come. Yankee’s Chris Nicoll, writes: “The current infatuation with 4G networks (HSPA+, WiMAX or LTE at this point) has brought a renewed focus on service profitability and that invariably casts a …

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