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Nokia has been riding at the top of the mobile handset game for a long long time. So it strikes me as a real shock to read TelecomTV article today "Nokia not prepared for smartphone onslaught" highlighting that Apple may have knocked Nokia out of fi...
So here in the States we just made it past the busiest shopping day of the year - Black Friday - and it got me thinking, why not go mobile?A quick scan online shows I'm not alone in the idea ... Business Week posted an article "Mobile Shopping's Firs...
As operators around the world tap into the huge benefit that IP and Ethernet offer the Radio Access Network (RAN), a question has come up - what designates an IP RAN?I use the IP designation for any RAN or RAN Backhaul network that leverages Ethernet...
OK, so it's an ad, but I want to believe this can and will soon become one of those common, spontaneous, quirky experiences just too good to enjoy alone - something really worthy of streaming live to friends, and to a server somewhere to enjoy again ...
Nice shopping list Jeff.Michael Howard, principal analyst and Co-founder for Infonetics, just released and telling report on a survey for IP/Ethernet Mobile Backhaul Strategies.Survey results reveal that majority of carriers are convinced of and in p...
Thanks Arnaldo.As you point out, IP/Ethernet based networks offer significant savings for RAN Backhaul costs. They're also proven to offer significantly higher capacity. I'll post another discusion to highlight samples of that.I like your point about...
This is fun question. Some peers tell me the term "IP RAN" implies All-IP (i.e., LTE radio)For me, once IP/Ethernet enter any part of the RAN, we're talking IP RAN vs. TDM RANI'm inclined to kick off a new discusion to poll community for opinions on ...
Interesting to note a difference in Tier 1 vs Tier 2 approach. I'd have expected all operators to look at the full network, trying to assure balanced dimensioning. Strikes me as peculiar that a Tier one would focus exclusively on the radio ... sounds...
