Articles tagged with: Base Stations and Intel

Averting radio spectrum saturation, opportunistically

Mobile users want better video calls, streaming television and faster downloads, placing more demands on the limited radio spectrum available to operators. Could handsets that intelligently sense their radio environment and opportunistically grab free bandwidth be a solution? more

Despite the Naysayers WiMAX Subscriber Revenue Will Boom in 2009

Any reader who believed all the recent headlines would feel confident that the WiMAX market is being crushed by LTE. Nortel has left the WiMAX market and Alcatel-Lucent has "backed off" from WiMAX; and these developments supposedly dealt a blow to Clearwire, which had so far chosen neither as an infrastructure vendor. But that's not quite the whole story. more

Actix unveils Self-Optimizing Network solution for LTE networks

Actix says that it plans to deliver the world's first commercial Self-Optimizing Network (SON) system for LTE networks during 2009. SON virtually eliminates human involvement for network planning and optimization and is a central element of the vision advocated by both the 3GPP and the Next Generation Mobile Networks Group, enabling a new way of managing the performance and maintenance of 4G radio access networks. more

Related Tags: 3g, base-station, eu, ict, lte, ran, 3gpp, actix, radio-access-network, 4g, son, bandwidth, network-planning, true

Alcatel-Lucent Deploys 3G Network in Reunion

Alcatel-Lucent says that it has successfully deployed a 3G network for the mobile operator SRR in the island nation of R�union. The first phase of this UMTS/HSPA wireless network deployment was made in 2008 mostly in R�union's Saint-Denis commune and in the island's main towns. more

LTE-Advanced Relaying Demonstrated in Germany

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced that it has successfully demonstrated Relaying for LTE-Advanced, which will enable operators to install additional relay stations without the need for extra backhaul facilities. more

T-Mobile Tests Hydrogen Powered Base Station

T-Mobile Hungary has commissioned the first base station in the country to be operated with hydrogen based PEM cells. T-Mobile (Magyar Telekom) says that the only other trials of hydrogen based PEM cells to power base stations have only been carried out with a few base stations in Sweden so far. more

Related Tags: t-mobile, base-station, telekom, emergency, Hungary

Huawei Wins Indonesian Network Contract

Huawei has been chosen by AXIS, Indonesia's newest GSM and 3G operator, as a key partner in rolling out its full service national network. Under the agreement, Huawei will design, build, deploy and manage AXIS' 2G/3G network within the island of Java, Bali, Lombok, Kalimantan and Sulawesi for a period of three years to 2010. Specifically, Huawei will be responsible for close to 4,000 sites across the country, on GSM and 3G radio access, optical and microwave transmission. more

Relays pass baton to next-gen broadband networks

The ideal of affordable wireless broadband for all, and as an added bonus better quality services in urban areas, is a lot closer thanks to recent advances made by European researchers. more

Related Tags: wi-fi, eu, backhaul, wireless-broadband, bwa, hotspots, laptop, ieee, son, ofdma, mesh

Nortel Providing WiMAX Kit for Moscow Network

Russia based Comstar has selected Nortel equipment to develop the first mobile WiMAX network in Moscow. 160 base stations are expected to be built in Moscow by the end of 2008. The overall investments in the project are expected to amount to approximately US$20 million in 2008. more

Related Tags: mobile-wimax, sitronics, nortel, comstar, moscow, 802.16e, airspan-networks, ieee, Russia

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