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*cell backhaul
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10/25/2012
Survey Sez 10/25/12
“Steady, albeit slow, growth is in store for the macrocell mobile backhaul equipment market,” notes Michael Howard, principal analyst/co-founder of Infonetics Research. “While Verizon Wireless and AT&T are winding down their first big wave of LTE deployments and their spending is slowing, this is a large market and there’s still room for growth. We’re expecting […]
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10/24/2012
New Stuff 10/24/12
The LTE Patent Pool managed by VIA Licensing combines the patent portfolios of 10 companies, and it now has the backing of the NGMN Board. “The NGMN Board has consistently stated that patents are an important part of standardized technologies like GSM, UMTS and LTE,” it says. “The NGMN Alliance published the first requirements for […]
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10/23/2012
Deals Of The Day 10/23/12
FiberLight LLC deployed Ciena’s industry-leading packet networking solutions to build mobile backhaul networks for two unnamed “major” U.S. wireless operators. In West Texas, FiberLight is building a dedicated, fiber-optic backhaul network for a LTE wireless provider that needed to increase bandwidth at each tower to 100 Mb/s, with the option to scale up; the solution […]
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09/19/2012
Survey Sez 09/19/12
During 2Q12, a Calix report indicates Internet traffic generated by rural consumers grew 53 percent quarter over quarter as subscribers migrated to faster broadband speeds and streamed more Internet video. More than 22 percent of end users generated more than 50 GB of traffic in the second quarter, up from 14.9 percent in the first […]
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09/12/2012
New Stuff 09/12/12
NYC-area business Ethernet provider Optimum Lightpath is expanding its managed services product portfolio to include a managed, flat-rate Wi-Fi offering with no upfront costs…Semiconductor maker Broadcom Corporation unveiled new AutoGrEEEn Plus technology dubbed the BCM54210E PHY family, which it says is the world’s smallest-footprint, lowest-power, single Gigabit PHY that delivers as much as 70-percent savings […]
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08/30/2012
Survey Sez 08/30/12
Turnkey managed video platforms (MVPs) will grow faster than will well-known content delivery networks (CDNs) from such providers as Akamai and Limelight and from such online video platforms (OVPs) as Brightcove and Ooyala. Synacor, MobiTV and QuickPlay lead the MVP pack, says ABI Research, and each has its own focus. “MVPs distance themselves from the […]