Yearly Archives: 2014

Small cell mobile backhaul is a market that although still in its infancy is projected to double annually in coming years as mobile operators continue to battle each other out in the mobile data “arms race.” One technology that has gained a considerable degree of attention lately for small cell backhaul is ‘all outdoor’ millimeter wave (mmW) radios which operate in the 60-90 GHz spectrum....That sounds great, but in practice deployment of these radios is much more challenging than the vendors selling them would have you believe.

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Small cell mobile backhaul is a market that although still in its infancy is projected to double annually in coming years as mobile operators continue to battle each other out in the mobile data “arms race.” The operator that improves coverage, capacity, and quality of experience most successfully can expect to reap rewards in terms of customer retention and luring additional customers away from competitors...One technology that has gained a considerable degree of attention lately for small cell backhaul is ‘all outdoor’ millimeter wave (mmW) radios which operate in the 60-90 GHz spectrum. Due to their compact designs featuring integrated planar antennas, suppliers tout their ability to deploy these radios nearly anywhere. That sounds great, but in practice deployment of these radios is much more challenging than the vendors selling them would have you believe. (more…)

Enhance, Expand, Increase while Going Green. Wouldn't it be great if you could find a way to grow your revenues, improve your competitiveness, enhance your responsiveness to customers, all while also helping the environment? Now you can.  Becoming more "green" means that you save on carbon fuel, save on energy and use more recyclable materials. (more…)

Even these days, a service operator’s Sales team will find that some small and medium business customers (SMBs) are convinced that getting a quality service requires getting service over fiber. If not addressed, that perception could be a barrier to selling Ethernet or Carrier Ethernet services over copper in some accounts. The good news is that this can be easily overcome, because the “push back” is merely the byproduct of having an outdated, point-in-time view based on having been barraged by years of repetitive advertising. (more…)

Having chosen the location of their operations based on cost and convenience, most small and medium business customers (SMBs) are located well outside the fiber footprint. Getting fiber to them is too expensive given the moderate demand that they represent individually, but collectively SMBs represent a huge market opportunity as they drive nearly 70% of the economy worldwide and are starting to use the network and cloud services much more intensively to level the competitive playing field. (more…)

Many operators believe that the majority of small cells will require somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 – 60 Mbps when installed, and understandably they want future scalability as well. This kind of bandwidth is easily available to the majority of outdoor small cell / micro cell locations with EFM over Copper from Actelis today. (more…)