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An Alternative 5G for Rural Communities
I recently presented my personal vision of an alternative 5G for rural communities on behalf of Parallel Wireless at the IEEE 5G Summit in Glasgow. I believe that the next few years are going to be...
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Telefonica and open source
An interesting presentation by Patrick Lopez, VP Networks Innovation, Telefónica at NFV & Zero Touch World Congress 2018 about how and why Telefónica is moving to open source. Slides and video...
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An Introduction to ONF and CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter)
Continuing on the theme of Open Source from last week's post from Telefonica, lets look at the CORD by ONF.The CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter) platform leverages SDN, NFV and Cloud...
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Summary and Analysis of Ericsson Mobility Report 2018
Ericsson Mobility reports always make a fantastic reading. Its been a while since I wrote anything on this topic so I thought lets summarize it and also provide my personal analysis. Please feel free...
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5G and IoT Security Update from ETSI Security Week 2018
ETSI Security Week 2018 (link) was held at ETSI's Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, South of France last week. It covered wide variety of topics including 5G, IoT, Cybersecurity, Middlebox, Distributed...
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Free Apps for Field Testing - Part 2
The last time I wrote about the free apps for field testing, many people came back and suggested additional apps that are much more commonly used. In fact we got the following comment when 3G4G...
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Terahertz and Beyond 100 GHz progress
There seems to be a good amount of research going on in higher frequencies to see how a lot more spectrum with a lot more bandwidth can be used in future radio communications. NTT recently released...
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Minimum Bandwidth Requirement for 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) Deployment
I was attending the IEEE 5G World Forum live-stream, courtesy of IEEE Tv and happen to hear Egil Gronstad, Senior Director of Technology Development and Strategy at T-Mobile USA. He said that they will...
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5G Synchronisation Requirements
5G will probably introduce tighter synchronization requirements than LTE. A recent presentation from Ericsson provides more details.A nice presentation by Ericsson from #WSTS2018: Sync in 5G: What is...
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Multicast Operation on Demand (MooD) and Service Continuity for eMBMS
Many regular readers of this blog are aware that back in 2014 I wrote a post looking critically at LTE-Broadcast business case and suggested a few approaches to make it a success. Back in those days,...
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Automating the 5G Core using Machine Learning and Data Analytics
One of the new entities introduced by 3GPP in the 5G Core SBA (see tutorial here) is Network Data Analytics Function, NWDAF.3GPP TR 23.791: Study of Enablers for Network Automation for 5G (Release 16)...
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ITU 'Network 2030': Initiative to support Emerging Technologies and...
Source: ITUAs per this recent ITU Press Release:The International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technology (ICT), has launched a new...
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Changes in LTE pricing strategies
Its been a while since I blogged about pricing strategies (see old posts here, here and here). I recently enjoyed listening to Soichi Nakajima, Director of "Digital Telco and OTT" at IDATE DigiWorld...
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Telefonica: Big Data, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
Earlier, I wrote a detailed post on how Telefonica was on a mission to connect 100 Million Unconnected with their 'Internet para todos' initiative. This video below is a good advert of what Telefinica...
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LiFi can be a valuable tool for densification
LiFi has been popping up in the news recently. I blogged about it (as LED-Fi) 10 years back. While the concept has remained the same, many of the limitations associated with the technology has been...
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Introduction to Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)
We have just produced a new tutorial on Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). The high level introductory tutorial looks at what is meant by Fixed Wireless Access, which is being touted as one of the initial 5G...
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End-to-end Network Slicing in 5G
I recently realised that I have never written a post just on Network slicing. So here is one on the topic. So the first question asked is, why do we even need Network Slicing? Alan Carlton from...
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Base Station Antenna Considerations for 5G
I first mentioned Quintel in this blog three years back for their innovations in 4T8R/8T8R antennas. Since then they have been going strength to strength.I heard David Barker, CTO of Quintel at...
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5G New Radio Standards and other Presentations
A recent Cambridge Wireless event 'Radio technology for 5G – making it work' was an excellent event where all speakers delivered an interesting and insightful presentation. These presentations are all...
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Multi-technology :The future of IoT geolocation
In the big world of IoT, location tracking is the next frontier!. Location tracking for humans is already an integral part of our lives especially for navigation. Traditional technologies enabling...
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