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Small Cells Summit in Dubai: 5 things you should know
By Lisa Garza, Service Provider Mobility Marketing Manger The annual Small Cells event for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) took place this week. It featured regional innovators like Saudi Telecom, Etisalat, Zain and du, in addition to the global small cell pioneers like AT&T and SoftBank. He…
How Are You Weathering Industry Storms? Five Ways To Help SPs Turn Disruption into Transformation
Service providers (SPs) have been wracked by wave after wave of disruption, creating new winners and losers on every front. Traditional carriers continue to look for ways to make up for lost voice revenues; over-the-top (OTT) players have redefined the ways video is delivered and consumed; exponenti…
BT and the Invisible AP
The Small Cell Industry has gathered in London again – last week for the Small Cells World Summit, and this week for the Wireless Broadband Alliance Wi-Fi Global Congress. The explosive growth of these two events over the past few years is a testament to the vital role that both licensed and unlice…
The Heartbeat of the Small Cell Network
We were pleased to accept a Small Cell Industry Award last night for small cell design and technology innovation for the Cisco Management Heartbeat Server (CMHS). We were particularly pleased because the CMHS is an example of a solution our engineering team developed in response to some real world i…
Closing the Small Cell Loop
Folks, We are in the midst of exciting times. As the small cell industry gathers here in London for the annual Small Cells World Summit, I’m delighted to welcome the world-class team from Ubiquisys into Cisco. At the same time, we’re announcing the formation of a new Small Cell Wireless Backhaul Ec…
Bringing Licensed and Unlicensed Small Cells Together
The mobile market will be vastly different 10 years from today. We will see two and a half billion more people connected to the internet, but also 50 billion more devices. Those devices are going to have a totally different consumption profile compared with the smartphone or dongle user that we have…
My Global Small Cell Experiences
Traveling has been a large part of my career at Cisco. Over the last few years I have had the opportunity to travel to customer meetings around the world, discussing their innovation and use cases for Cisco Small Cell Solutions. What’s interesting is when I spoke with operators in Europe, the prime…
The Mobile Paradox
Today’s world is characterized by what I call the “mobile explosion”—an environment defined by mobile cloud becoming a platform for delivering everything. It is a world of heterogeneous networks, licensed macro small cell networks, and unlicensed small cell networks (Wi-Fi for example), all seamless…
Adaptive Radio Modules for the 3600 Series AP: Best of Interop 2013 Finalist
We’ve been really busy but also very thrilled about the work we’re doing to future-proofing the network, and it seems we’re not alone. One of our latest innovations, adaptive radio modules for the AP3600, has been selected by UBM as a Best of Interop finalist for the Wireless award category! It’s a…