Tag: wireless

June 26, 2018

Seamless cross-access convergence enables service providers to run their networks more efficiently, offering customers a better quality of experience and greater reliability. Growing customer demands for flexible services, alongside developing trends such as the internet of things, network as a […]

June 19, 2018

Today we are announcing our intent to acquire July Systems, a privately-held company headquartered in Burlingame, California with offices in Bangalore, India. We are excited to welcome July Systems and its cloud-based mobile experience and location services platform to Cisco […]

June 6, 2018

I’m with the Desktop Platforms team. We manage the fleet of Windows devices, Macs and Linux machines provided and supported by IT at Cisco. Our team has tried a number of approaches to driver updates on the Windows side over […]

April 4, 2018

Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 kicked off this week in Barcelona, featuring cutting-edge telecommunications, mobility, and IoT technologies from more than 900 exhibitors from all over the globe. U.S.-based wireless leaders AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon made their presence known, […]

April 3, 2018

Wi-Fi has enjoyed a quasi-monopolistic usage of the 5 GHz in the last few years but that is changing as Multefire and LTE Unlicensed in general are making inroads in once considered “Wi-Fi” bands. We thus feel it is about time […]

March 30, 2018

In a keynote presentation this week at the Deutsche Bank 2018 Media, Telecom and Business Services Conference, AT&T SVP and CFO John Stephens likened the carrier’s build out of FirstNet to building a house and leaving room to add 5G. […]

March 28, 2018

Carriers have invested heavily in the R&D that will result in the launch of commercial 5G services as soon as later this year. Seeking ROI on those investments, the industry-wide goal is rapid commercialization with the first use case shaping […]

February 26, 2018

With the non-standalone 5G New Radio (NR) specification approved by 3GPP in December 2017, the telecom ecosystem is rapidly conducting standard-compliant interoperability testing to prepare for commercialization as soon as the second-half of this year. The non-standalone 5G NR standard […]

February 23, 2018

Ciena has unveiled a range of new 5G Network Solutions to help operators scale their current 4G networks, while simultaneously preparing for the impending evolution toward 5G. Ciena said the 5G Network Solutions are designed to provide the scale and automation operators […]

February 6, 2018

One of the biggest challenges for 5G fixed wireless access is bringing millimeter wave signals from the outdoors to the inside. The short wavelengths at those high frequencies mean that mmWave is very susceptible to being blocked or reflected by […]