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Addressing the deployment challenge
Read Full ArticleThe recently held fifteenth Transport Networks for Mobile Operators conference in London really embraced small cell backhaul. As vice chair, Backhaul SIG of the Small Cell Forum this made TNMO of particular interest to me so I was delighted to be asked to chair the afternoon session on the first day.
The session was called Small Cells to Leverage the Benefits of New Backhaul Solutions — and that very positive message recurred often during the afternoon. It was also quite gratifying to note that many of the concerns — and indeed conclusions — of the recent SCF backhaul white paper and release programme ...
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The Small Cell Industry Awards 2013: a truly astonishing response
Read Full ArticleSince Small Cell Forum expanded its remit just over a year ago we’ve continued to attract new members from a broader diversity of sectors and activity has ramped up within and across our working groups.
In fact, our name change was a response to a groundswell of initiatives that were taking place even before we extended our remit. Femtocells have been joined by picocells, microcells and metrocells in businesses, government buildings, high streets, villages, and even ships and planes in (to name just a few places) Greece, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, the US, the UK at sea and ...
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Join the backhaul conversation
Read Full ArticleThis week sees the publication of the SCF white paper Backhaul Technologies for Small Cells — and yes, the timing is deliberate. This year’s Mobile World Congress has already seen increasing discussion and debate around small cell backhaul and this document aims to offer as definitive an assessment as possible of the state of play in this complex and fascinating area of small cell deployment.
Of course many of us have, for months and even years, been having conversations around the merits (or otherwise) of the technologies examined in the white paper — technologies like millimetre wave, microwave, sub-6 GHz licensed ...
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Cisco buys Ubiquisys for $310m
Read Full ArticleThe global market for small cell infrastructure, excluding micro cells, was worth $1.8bn in 2012, according to Informa Telecoms & Media. Cisco's drive into mobile networking has also included the acquisitions of Israel's Intucell for $475m and the US's
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Maravedis-Rethink Imago: Vendor rankings
Read Full ArticleThese are the first outputs from our Imago offering, which ranks vendors in various key infrastructure categories. A combination of quantitative and qualitative measures are used with different weighting for each.
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The Small Cell Forum Says: Backhaul is NOT a barrier to Small Cell Deployment
Read Full ArticleThe Small Cell Forum has just published Release One, the first in a series which aim to provide “all you need to know” packages to help operators deploy small cells, and for solution providers to understand technology trends and requirements.
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