Articles tagged with: Ran and Lte
KDDI Awards LTE Contracts to Motorola and NEC
Japanese mobile network operator, KDDI has awarded LTE deployment contracts to both Motorola and NEC. Motorola is to provide network infrastructure, including ran/base stations, while NEC will be providing base stations. more
Related Tags: nec, motorola, kddi, base-stations, base, Japan
Actix predicts coordinated future for radio network engineering and status management
Network Status Management vendor, Actix is predicting that with the arrival of LTE, network managers will have a sharper focus on the delivery cost per data bit. A better co-ordination between radio network engineering and status management, Actix has found, can drive a reduction of almost 30% in day-to-day ran engineering costs. more
Alcatel-Lucent Offers Converged RAN for CDMA Networks Migrating to LTE
Alcatel-Lucent says that it has expanded its wireless networking portfolio to inlcude a Converged ran" (radio access network) which enables mobile service providers to offer both 3G CDMA and LTE services using a common network infrastructure. One of the key elements of the Converged ran is the software defined radio (SDR) technology which has been available on the current Alcatel-Lucent base stations for a number of years already. more
Related Tags: 3g, base-station, tim, alcatel-lucent, cdma, ovi, base-stations, sdr
LTE Cannot Come Soon Enough for Some Operators
For some operators, LTE cannot come soon enough, states the latest report from Analysys Mason, which details how wireless data traffic will grow tenfold in developed markets in the period to 2015. However, there are many roads to a data-optimised ran and LTE is only one component. more
Related Tags: mobile-data, w-cdma, cdma, hspa, gsm, play, life
FMC and femtocell equipment markets poised to take off in face of downturn
..markets to thrive during the current economic downturn for a number of reasons. First, Orange and T-Mobile, and Rogers Wireless now as well, are driving the UMA market and do not plan to slow down their deployments; in fact, they see the slowdo more
Related Tags: orange, t-mobile, 3g, nokia, apple, driving, iden, vas, rogers-wireless, infonetics-research, femtocell, fmc, rogers, radio-network-controller
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, intel, eu, ict, 3gpp, actix, base-stations, radio-access-network, 4g, son, bandwidth
Ericsson launches Evo RAN for sustainable radio networks
..operating a radio access network. Evo RAN combines GSM/EDGE, WCDMA/HSPA, LTE, IP-based transport systems and its common Operational Support System in a fully optimized RAN Ulf Ewaldsson, Vice President and Head of Product Area Radio at Ericsson, more
Related Tags: base-station, wcdma, edge, cdma, hspa, ericsson, radio-access-network, gsm, tdd
Alcatel-Lucent Wins Hungarian Mobile Backhaul Contract
..Technical Officer of Pannon. "In anticipation of even more growth we decided to transform our RAN Backhaul towards cost-efficient packet technology. Alcatel-Lucent's solution gives us the resiliency, scalability and outstanding service performa more
Related Tags: pannon, base-station, alcatel-lucent, hspa, mobile-broadband, mobile-internet, base-stations, backhaul, gsm, long-term-evolution, villages, 4g, bandwidth, Hungary
Nortel's bankruptcy filing enables radical change, and not just at Nortel
..sition to remind customers that Nortel can no longer give assurances of continued development of any specific products, which will surely impede Nortel's ability to bring in new business. …but it highlights how the macroeconomic meltdown will pu more
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..or new software capability. That in turn translates to greater sustainability, as single multi-tenanted IT services have much lower carbon footprints than if all customers ran their instances separately on premises. Sustainability wil more
