Tremendously excited to see that the xRAN Forum (www.xran.org) has adopted IETF’s NETCONF/YANG standard for programmatically configuring and managing its lower layer split RAN architecture. Not only will the use of native YANG models ensure the easie...

Well last week saw the small cell community divided (by the English Channel; with the Femto World Summit meeting in London and the Wireless Broadband Alliance in Paris) but united in the use of small cells for offloading conventional macro RAN infras...

As we have been updating our solutions for Service Provider WiFi, one of the key questions that we needed to answer concerned the assumptions regarding client functionality. The issues raised are perhaps broader than just SP WiFi and key to driving a...

So I finally managed to get around to reading Chris Anderson's "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" [http://www.amazon.com/Free-Future-Radical-Chris-Anderson/dp/1401322905/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261597272&sr=8-1 ] (yes, I paid for the physi...

I spoke at last weeks IDATE Digiworld Summit and was fortunate enough to sit through Antoine Pradayrol's plenary session on "Open Mobile" - Antoine is head of Telco research at Exane-Paribas and you can view his presentation here:http://www.digiworld...