A ride-along with Verizon Wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Thomas Pannackal is one of Verizon Wireless’ system performance engineers, and he is driving a Verizon Wireless SUV decked out with half-a-million dollars worth of Comarco test-and-measurement gear. Last week Pannackal gave Telephony a demonstration of what he and hundreds of other engineers do on a daily basis to keep VZW’s nationwide network optimized...
The next small thing in wireless
By: By Dan O'Shea
The success of Wi-Fi, the potential of fixed/mobile convergence, the reality of the mobile substitution trend, the evolution of home networking and the...
Symbian sheds UIQ
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With Sony Ericsson's purchase of UIQ from Symbian, the wireless user interface, or UI, market got a lot clearer. Symbian was in the odd position of developing...
Qualcomm scores BREW win with Telecom Italia
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm has finally landed its long-pursued goal of landing a BREW customer in the GSM world of Europe, announcing today Telecom Italia Mobile will launch BREW-based games over its 3G network...
Aruba lays out FMC strategy
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Aruba Networks today announced an aggressive fixed/mobile convergence strategy today, designed to turn its entire portfolio of WLAN switches and access points into a wireless VoIP supporting full mobility inside and outside of the office...
Qualcomm sells more chips
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm reported Q4 profit increases of 14% off of growing chipset sales. Qualcomm shipped a record 207 million Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chips in fiscal year 2006, up from 151 million in 2005...
Pseudowire key to new cellular backhaul options
By: By Joan Engebretson
A technology originally aimed at carrying different types of data traffic across an IP backbone has found a new application that’s not in the backbone. The technology, pseudowire, is now being deployed in Ethernet-based access networks to support a need we’ve been hearing a lot about lately—cellular backhaul...
Nortel trials collaborative MIMO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Already one of the biggest proponents for multiple smart antennas in the WiMAX kit, Nortel Networks is adding a new facet to its Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) technology...
Verizon Wireless flashes phones
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless is adding Flash capabilities to its mobile applications deck, Get It Now, possibly opening up the platform to a raft of new content...
Sprint begins Rev. A rollout
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today commercially launched its first 3G network upgraded with EV-DO Revision A technology in San Diego, beginning a network-wide rollout that will target 20 more markets...
A Telephony Podcast: WiMAX World 2006
Telephony editors were on site at WiMAX World in Boston last week to cover new developments in the broadband wireless sector. Hear excerpts from live interviews with industry analysts and the WiMAX Forum about recent developments in the WiMAX community and what the future holds...
Infonetics: Mobile backhaul moving to IP
By: By Dan O'Shea
IP-based systems for providing backhaul capacity for mobile networks are expected to account for 45% of mobile backhaul equipment sales by 2009, according to a new study from Infonetics Research...
Sprint reveals CDMA push-to-talk plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint yesterday laid its plans for its next-generation push-to-talk to service, which will bring fully functioning “walkie-talkie” service to its CDMA network as well as link up with Nextel’s successful PTT service...
iPass beefs up remote access portfolio
By: By Kevin Fitchard
iPass today said it has completed the integration of its recently acquired broadband arm, GoRemote, into its network of secure remote access solutions for enterprise, giving it connectivity options ranging from home Wi-Fi to wide area 3G access...
WiMAX World briefs: Proxim sells fixed WiMAX network in Taiwan
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Airspan Networks is commencing shipments this quarter of its new HiperMAX base station supporting both fixed and mobile iterations of WiMAX...
WiMAX World: Nokia unveils WiMAX plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BOSTON--Nokia today shined some light through its until-now opaque WiMAX strategy, revealing a new base station based on its modular Flexi equipment line and a new initiative to pursue Mobile WiMAX handsets focused on a data centric applications...
WiMAX World: Nortel launches MIMO base station
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BOSTON--Nortel Networks commercially launched its smart-antenna powered base station at WiMAX World this week, saying it eschewed the first round of WiMAX Forum certification in order to focus on the more advanced wave of next-generation WiMAX technologies next summer...
ZTE: The Outsider
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ZTE is a mystery. Nobody in this industry is quite sure what the Chinese vendor is up to. It and its fellow countryman, Huawei, have had substantial success in branching outside of their home markets, selling telecom equipment at lower margins to operators in developing countries and even some in the developed world. But otherwise ZTE remains opaque--a shadowy threat from the east. This article is part six of a six-part online series...
WiMAX World: The quiet one speaks
By: By Dan O'Shea
BOSTON--Broadband wireless service provider Clearwire has, by extension but also by its own design, acquired the reclusive reputation of its founder, Craig McCaw. But, with an increasingly aggressive market rollout and extroverted partners like Motorola and Intel, it has no place left to hide...
WiMAX World: Navini mixes beamforming, MIMO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BOSTON--Navini isn’t taking sides in the smart antenna debate. While other vendors tout their Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) and beamforming antenna technologies, Navini is incorporating both technologies into its new Mobile WiMAX gear...
Comptel: Wayport goes beyond hot spots
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--Wayport is probably best known as the company who provides Wi-Fi networks to hotels and airports, but as Wi-Fi becomes ubiquitous, it has plans for much more than hotspots...
Comptel: Rooftop collocation may be next
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--If broadband wireless technology proves more successful in this generation than in earlier versions, the next great frontier for collocation could be building rooftops...
Samsung: The Teacher’s Pet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Like the kid who brings the apple to class and raises his hand at every question, Samsung is doing everything conceivable to draw attention to its WiMAX portfolio. While other vendors set commercial availability dates for their WiMAX base stations, Samsung points to the commercial WiBro network up and running in Korea. This article is part five of a six-part online series...
WiMAX World: Soma to use Sequans chips
By: By Dan O'Shea
BOSTON--Broadband wireless equipment vendor Soma Networks announced today--while 2006 WiMAX World pre-conference workshops were going in advance of tomorrow's show opening--that it will integrate 802.16e-2005 chipsets from Sequans Communications into its Mobile WiMAX products...
Fujitsu does WiMAX infrastructure
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Fujitsu is expanding its interest in WiMAX from chipsets to a complete radio access infrastructure line, unveiling today a Mobile WiMAX base station portfolio targeted at the North American market...
