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AeroMACS: A common platform for air traffic management applications
In this white paper, "AeroMACS: A common platform for air traffic management applications," sponsored by the WiMAX Forum, I looked at wireless applications that support the ground segment of air traffic management. AeroMACS is the technology that can bring broadband connectivity in airpo...
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LTE in unlicensed spectrum and Wi-Fi: Looking beyond coexistence
The first time I heard about LTE in the 5 GHz license-exempt band, my reaction was: “Why do we need it? Wi-Fi works well, it’s cheap, and it’s in every device.”
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The importance of physical location in a virtualized world
Virtualization in the RAN and in the core frees mobile operators from restrictions about physical location – they can locate and distribute functionality across the network as they see fit. This is not because physical location is no longer important. Quite the opposite, it is precisely becaus...
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Reports
New report
Charting the path to RAN virtualization: C-RAN, fronthaul and HetNets
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Report topics
- Where does RAN virtualization fit in?
- The emergence of a new RAN topology. From distributed RAN to C-RAN and virtualized RAN
- From local to advanced C-RAN. Multiple types of C-RAN to target different environments
- Picking the right C-RAN architecture. Assessment of multiple tradeoffs crucial to successful C-RAN deployments
- The path to virtualization. The role of the RAN within the NFV platform
- Fronthaul, the great enabler of C-RAN and vRAN architectures. A bottleneck or a requirement to meet?
- Fronthaul beyond CPRI. CPRI alternatives attract operators’ attention
- Tradeoffs can ease the way to RAN virtualization. Functional split options to facilitate or enable the transition to C-RAN
- Drivers to a virtualized RAN: cost. Cost dynamics in the short term and in the long term
- Drivers to a virtualized RAN: mobility and interference management. Toward a more efficient use of network resources in densified networks
- Drivers to a virtualized RAN: statistical multiplexing. Leveraging uneven traffic distribution to optimiz
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resource utilization
- Implications: The death of the cell? Moving baseband processing to the cloud erases RAN boundaries
Interviews included in the report:
Airvana, ASOCS, Fujitsu, Radisys, SOLiD, Oi, Orange, Softbank and Telefonica
Download the interviews and request a copy of the full report
Register for the webinar that will discuss the report findings
Senza Fili events
Upcoming conference participation:
World ATM Congress, WiMAX Aviation 2015,10-12 March, Madrid, Spain
GigaOM Structure Data,18-19 March 2015, New York, USA
HetNet North America, 5-6 May, 2015, New York, USA
What's new
The evolution to C-RAN and V-RAN to support indoor and outdoor HetNets. Webinar presentation.
Backhaul or fronthaul for small cells? Conference presentation
The evolving requirements for next-generation small-cell backhaul. Conference presentation.
Increasing network efficiency with traffic management. Slides from FierceWireless webinar.
The emergence of the NFV ecosystem: Laying the foundation for a new way to run mobile networks. Analyst report in collaboration with RCR Wireless. Full report, slide deck
Fronthaul or backhaul for micro cells? A TCO comparison between two approaches to managing traffic from macro and micro cells in HetNets
. White paper sponsored by
EBlink
From dumb pipes to smart services: Adding intelligence to the core network with L4–L7 networking devices.
White paper sponsored by F5
Enabling the next generation in air traffic management with AeroMACS. White paper sponsored by the WiMAX Forum
The economics of small cells and Wi-Fi offload. Senza Fili analyst report
Backhaul for small cells. Finding the right cost/performance tradeoffs to meet the backhaul challenge. Senza Fili analyst report
Unlocking the power of context to manage network growth. A shift to better subscriber experience and network utilization.
White paper sponsored by F5
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