Articles tagged with: Base Stations and Play

Femto Forum Outlines Case for LTE Femtocells

The femtocell trade body, the Femto Forum today outlined the case for LTE femtocells at the LTE World Summit in Berlin. The principal performance benefit that femtocells bring to LTE, cited by the Femto Forum, is that they will ensure more users receive peak data rates more of the time, especially inside buildings where the vast majority of mobile broadband data is consumed and where the service quality is lower than outside. Femtocells achieve this by maximising spectrum re-use and by ensuring power, and therefore network capacity, is not wasted by trying to penetrate buildings.  more

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Alvarion Delivers Turnkey WiMAX Network in Burkina Faso

Alvarion says that it has been chosen by Burkina Faso's Ministry of Posts and Information Communication Technology for the country's first 802.16e WiMAX deployment. Alvarion initially deployed a network in the capital city of Ouagadougou to connect administrative offices with data and voice services over WiMAX. Based on the successful results, the Ministry of Posts and Information Communication Technology decided to award an expansion contract with full turnkey services to Alvarion.  more

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Vodafone Trialling Microwave Ethernet for 3G Backhaul

Vodafone is trialling new microwave technology that it expects to quadruple current backhaul capacity in channelling voice and data traffic away from base stations. Vodafone has carried out a series of trials investigating the potential of Ethernet microwave which is capable of greatly enhancing the performance of existing microwave backhaul technology.  more

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