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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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09/04/2012
Events 09/04/12
In anticipation of all the wireless tweeting and Facebooking activity starting today at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Time Warner Cable installed the Ruckus Wireless ZoneFlex family of high-capacity Smart Wireless LAN (WLAN) systems to provide high-speed Wi-Fi throughout the 19,000-seat Time Warner Cable Arena. The new Wi-Fi network replaces the old one […]
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08/30/2012
Events 08/30/12
Distributed antenna systems (DAS) from Corning MobileAccess, part of Corning Incorporated’s Telecommunications segment, have been deployed at 12 major locations in Tampa, Fla., and in Charlotte, N.C., to support the Republican and Democratic national conventions. The DAS in the Tampa Convention Center this week covers the facility’s 600,000 square feet; The convention center serves as […]
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08/20/2012
Survey Sez 08/20/12
Tower-top RF electronics, consisting of active antennas, remote radio heads and tower-mounted amplifiers, will account for an increasing share of the base station market as LTE rolls out and distributed base stations become the norm, notes ABI Research. Ericsson, NSN, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei Technologies currently account for about half of the total market, but new […]
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08/15/2012
Survey Sez 08/15/12
Dell’Oro Group forecasts sales of high-bandwidth-enabling GPON OLTs, DOCSIS 3.0 CMTS and VDSL infrastructure equipment will be the lead growth segments in the access market through 2016, offsetting declining revenue for slower-speed ADSL equipment. The group also indicates GPON will have the highest growth rate, followed by CMTS and VDSL. Comments Steve Nozik, principal analyst/Access, “For CMTS, […]
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07/13/2012
The Future Of Mobile Computers Is Rugged
We are going through a radical shift in the way people work and use computers. Increasing availability and affordability of wireless broadband is giving the global workforce true mobility, for the first time in history. Many of them will use smartly designed mobile rugged computers for their everyday computing and communication needs instead of traditional […]