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CommScope gets Italian sailing team’s Wi-Fi connection in shipshape for race

The Wi-Fi network will carry data from onboard sensors and devices to support boats CommScope will connect Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli sailboat team’s 75-foot long AC75 racing yacht with Ruckus Wi-Fi equipment during the PRADA Cup. The Ruckus Wi-Fi network will carry data from hundreds...

Understanding the CBRS coexistence paradigm (Reader Forum)

Most people familiar with the Citizens Broadband Radio System (CBRS) understand the three-tiered sharing model that designates lightly licensed General Authorized Access (GAA) users to the bottom tier with the lowest level of priority. However, CBRS players are often surprised to learn that while the...

Opening the C Band to accelerate 5G deployments (Reader Forum)

Opening the C Band for 5G networks frees up spectrum for a number of years and represents a major opportunity for mobile operators. At 280 megahertz, the C Band is the largest chunk of mid-band spectrum the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has made available...

The year ahead in broadband networks (Reader Forum)

The coming year will see a marked acceleration in several key broadband network trends, brought on by global COVID-related changes to work, education, and entertainment as well as momentum in next-generation network investments.  As we wrap up the year and look ahead to 2021, there...

CommScope acquires Phluido’s vRAN patent portfolio

CommScope exec: 'the acquisition further solidifies CommScope’s position as innovative indoor RAN provider' CommScope has acquired the complete patent portfolio for virtual radio access networks (vRAN) from Phluido, a company specializing in RAN virtualization and disaggregation. According to CommScope, the patents “address key concepts introduced in...

CommScope to power in-home connectivity with 10G broadband

10G promises to deliver speeds up to 100 times faster than what most consumers experience today, says CommScope CommScope demonstrated its vision for 10-gigabit, or 10G, and virtualized networks at this year’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo earlier this week, focusing on the in-home experiences that will...

Well, technically… small cell concealment is much more than putting a radio in a box: CommScope (Ep. 11)

Small cell concealment is much more than putting a radio in a box

Improving indoor connectivity with Open RAN (Reader Forum)

In recent months, the telecommunications industry has been abuzz with news about various initiatives related to Open RAN. Essentially, Open RAN refers to open and interoperable interfaces within and between the various subcomponents of the RAN: the radio, hardware, or baseband unit and software....

Well, technically… 96% of the US is rural: Heather ‘Mo’ Williams, CommScope (Ep. 3)

On this episode of Well, technically... the tech podcast where women do the explaining, Heather 'Mo' Williams, network solutions analyst at CommScope, discusses Wi-Fi 6E, the challenge of bringing connectivity to rural America and her love of honey badgers.

Reducing PIM on cell site towers in the 5G era (Reader Forum)

External passive intermodulation (PIM) has always been a concern when deploying wireless networks. However, PIM has become even more of a challenge with the introduction of new 5G technologies and infrastructure. In the simplest definition, PIM occurs when two or more wireless signals mix together and...

16-fiber MPO provides an attractive path to 400 GbE (Reader Forum)

Nobody ever said the Ethernet Roadmap was a direct route. When the 25G Ethernet Consortium (Arista, Broadcom, Google, Mellanox Technologies and Microsoft) proposed single-lane 25-Gbps Ethernet and dual-lane 50-Gbps Ethernet in July 2014, it created a big fork in the roadmap. Networks had to...

Will 5G Change The World? Farid Firouzbakht, CommScope (Ep. 10)

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change The World? Farid Firouzbakht, CommScope (Ep. 10) Massive MIMO, open RAN and more This week CommScope's Farid Firouzbakht, senior vice president and general manager, discusses some of the distinct considerations associated with 5G at sub-6 GHz frequencies vs. at...

RF Connect, CommScope and Druid team up on private LTE for Covid-19 doctors

A first principle of private cellular in shared or unlicensed spectrum is LTE-based networks can be quickly deployed in emergency scenarios. This is the idea with various network-in-a-box solutions, which can be helicoptered in to crisis zones. Of course, crisis zones have become a feature...

Quarter of private LTE and 5G networks will be managed by smart cities in 2025

By 2025, almost one quarter (23 percent) of all private LTE and 5G networks will be deployed by smart cities, either at local or national government level. Other major industrial sectors to negotiate their own spectrum and manage their own wireless networks will be,...

The role of Wi-Fi in a 5G World (Reader Forum)

Google trends is a fascinating tool that provides unparalleled insight into what people across the world are thinking and doing. A quick glance at the search trend for the term “5G” reveals a growing interest in this wireless connectivity technology  (in case you are curious, here is...

CommScope: ‘2020 will deliver the 5G promise’

5G requires more high-powered, RRUs and, in some regions, a shift to massive MIMO architecture, says CommScope BARCELONA--The implementation of 5G requires more radio units, more cell sites, more power. But at the same time, operators are looking for solutions that have minimal impact on...

Wanted: A converged IoT strategy for the enterprise (Reader Forum)

Smart IoT devices and sensors utilize a wide range of wireless protocols such as Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Z-Wave, LoRa, and BLE. The deployment of smart IoT devices and sensors – each with its own set of requirements – inevitably creates multiple overlay networks that are...

Test and Measurement: Teledyne LeCroy acquires Oakgate Technology

Acquisition expands Teledyne LeCroy's benchmarking and validation testing for data centers, electronic storage Test-focused Teledyne subsidiary Teledyne LeCroy has acquired California-based Oakgate Technology, which focuses on testing, validation and benchmarking for data centers and the electronic storage industry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Teledyne...

2020 is all about bandwidth, edge devices and PoE (Reader Forum)

2019 saw the introduction of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 products, the long-awaited launch of 5G devices and services, the initial commercial rollout of shared spectrum, as well as increased global interest in private networks. In 2020, we expect these new standards, products and services to...

Editorial Report: Spectrum sharing: CBRS and Beyond

If vendors and users can prove out the deployment and business model associated with shared access to the 3.5 GHz CBRS band, the same approach could be applied to other underused spectrum. With GAA deployments in early days and priority access licenses about to...

5G NR-U synchronized sharing for more efficient private networks

3GPP including 5G NR-U for 5 GHz and 6 GHz in Rel. 16 With the forthcoming 3GPP Rel. 16, 5G New Radio will be expanded into the unlicensed 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands. Called NR-U, there are two modes of operation: non-standalone wherein operators...

Where are we today with CBRS and what’s next?

CBRS waiting for FCC on full commercialization and is on evolutionary path to 5G Around the world, the 3.5 GHz band has been tapped by operators as key mid-range 5G spectrum. In the U.S. that frequency, referred to as the Citizens Broadband Radio Service band,...

Spectrum sharing in the mid-bands beyond CBRS

While there’s a lot of focus on CBRS at the moment, there are significant spectrum machinations at a federal level that will impact the future of other valuable chunks of mid-band spectrum. This started with the MOBILE NOW Act, which directs the Secretary of...

CommScope: 2020 will be ‘hugely disruptive’ for network architecture

New network architectures will 'create value in ways that we can barely conceive' In the wake of two major acquisitions, CommScope Chief Technology Officer Morgan Kurk talked with RCR Wireless News about what 2020 has in store for the company as it realigns its business...