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AS WE REPORTED in the latest issue

of Mobile Europe, European operators are still very much in the early

stages of small cell deployments and the only thing that unites them

all is the different stages they are at and the different approaches they

are taking.

However, such disjointed progress does not stop analysts predicting

how the market will grow – Infonetics Research, for example, predicts

small cells will be a €2.1 billion market by 2017 given the current pace of

LTE rollouts worldwide.

The vendor community, meanwhile, continues to fine-tune its offerings

alongside a host of mergers and acquisitions – witness Cisco buying

Ubiquisys and JDSU acquiring Arieso – that point to the optimism it feels

about the technology.

In June, all three came together at the Small Cells World Summit, the

largest small cells event in the telecoms industry, and Mobile Europe was

there to gauge the mood.

This special digital issue features news, exclusive interviews and a range

of videos from the show that attempts to give a flavour of what went on.

We begin on this page with Gordon Mansfield, chairman of the Small

Cell Forum and AVP of small cell technology at AT&T, who discusses the

industry body’s upcoming Release Two plan to accelerate enterprise

small cell deployments.

“The enterprise segment represents a huge opportunity for the mobile

operator community, both in terms of increasing coverage but also with

enterprise IT architects who are seeking to move all personal

communications services on to mobile devices and “unwire” their

organisations. However, to date the enterprise has largely proven hard to

Gordon Mansfield, Chairman of the Small Cells Forumon Release 2

2 “Industry support critical tomaximising potential of smallcells”, say operators

3 Qualcomm debuts 3G, 4G,Wi-Fi small cells processorportfolio

Small Cells Industry Awards:Operators and vendors win bigon innovative designs

4 Q&A: Virgin Media Business’director of wireless

6 Have you done your RFplanning properly?

SMALL CELLS WORLD SUMMIT 2013 REV IEW ISSUE

Small Cells World Summit 2013

target effectively,” said Mansfield.

Elsewhere in this issue, we feature a digest of the keynotes, which

highlight how much further US and Asian operators are ahead of their

counterparts in Europe. China Mobile and Korea’s SK Telecom discuss

their respective nanocell and femto remote systems, for example.

In Europe, Virgin Media Business has one of the more interesting

small cells offering – a hosted services for other operators – and the

company’s head of wireless explains how that is developing in an

exclusive interview.

Our other feature concerns the importance of RF planning, with

InfoVista’s Juan Pablo Prieto Baez arguing how essential it is to know

the ins and outs of your network in order to deploy small cells.

Alongside new releases from Qualcomm and news of the winners

from the Small Cell Industry Awards, which coincided with the event,

we have videos from Airspan, Alcatel-Lucent, CBNL, Cisco, JDSU,

Qualcomm, Radisys and Radwin discussing their views on the market

and outlining their latest releases.

In short, the market continues to evolve but a big bang operator

announcement from Europe still seems a long way off. In the meantime,

the vacuum is filled by the vendors and the analysts – it can only be

hoped that the meticulous studies and planning that the operators are

doing will mean they can act with decisiveness when the moment for

large-scale deployments arrives.

Marc Smith

Group Editor

Mobile Europe and European Communications

The view from the summit floor

EUROPE STILL WAITING FORSMALL CELLS BIG BANG

Mike Schabel, VP, Wireless Division, Alcatel-Lucent

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OVER THREE DAYS in early June, representatives from over 70

operators discussed commercial deployments at the Small Cells World

Summit in London.

AT&T, for example, announced that following successful trials of indoor

and outdoor 3G Metrocell small cells, it was now in a position to offer

“nearly 100 percent usable coverage” in the areas covered, with

combined metro/macro drop rates now equivalent to the macro network

and trending downwards.

The US incumbent operator intends to deploy an extensive network of

over 40,000 small cells across the United States between 2013-2015.

AT&T also mentioned that some of the biggest challenges it

encountered during deployments including site acquisition and zoning,

the impact of placing the small cells, as well as the availability of

backhaul and which type to use.

SK Telecom, which has led the way globally with the world’s first LTE

femtocell commercial deployment in June 2012, shared the lessons it

has learned and how its small cells

device needs have changed since

2010, as smartphone/tablet data usage

has exploded.

SKT reported that its subscribers now

user over 1 petabyte in data traffic a

day, leading the operator to come up

with innovations in order to manage its

ever-growing small cells network.

In 2012, it debuted the world’s first

femto remote system (FRS) commercial

deployment, using a cloud RAN

architecture to host a virtual base

station/digital unit (DU) that connects to

multiple small cell radio units (RU) via

ethernet cables.

According to the Korean operator,

commercialising FRS has enabled it to

offer a much wider indoor area coverage

as the FRS covers indoor areas as a single cell, meaning multiple

femtocells are not needed.

SKT also mentioned that it is currently developing multi-band

supported femtocells in 2013 to further reduce interference and boost

cost effectiveness.

China Mobile was also keen to talk about new technology in small

cells – primarily its nanocell invention and TD-LTE, the 4G standard

developed for use across China, which has seen 17 commercial

deployments so far globally.

In the last 12 months, China Mobile has carried out a TD-LTE trial

across 13 cities, using 20,000 base stations.

Key challenges that it has experienced while deploying TD-LTE include

site acquisition, as public awareness of electromagnetic radiation

protection has increased, meaning that more protests make it difficult to

obtain new sites or renew existing ones.

New base stations offering multi-systems and multi-bands are also

required in order to support GSM, TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE. However, the

biggest problem is the lack of efficient indoor coverage.

Unhappy with the high capex and increased penetration loss from the

macro network and the difficulties and high capex in installing DAS

antenna systems, the operator has invented its own form of small cells –

nanocells – which specialise in providing mobile coverage to a limited

area as well as integrating carrier grade WLAN/Wi-Fi services.

Deploying nanocells would do away with the site acquisition problems

for the macrocell network and be much cheaper to serve a rural

community, as the nanocell’s 2 kilometre range it brings the base station

closer to users, reducing the number of users per cell.

TD-LTE was also a talking point for Vodafone, which has extended its

small cells portfolio to embrace picocells, microcells and Wi-Fi.

Vodafone has been carrying out small cells deployments in urban

areas such as its “Smart City”

deployment in Barcelona,

where it used TD-LTE to solve

the non-line-of-sight (NLoS)

backhaul problem, as well as

for “enabling sustainable

improved capacity” for rural

villages in Portugal.

Vodafone is piloting

enterprise gateways that enable

the aggregation of local

services within an enterprise

environment, as well as

“beamforming” for small cells.

A 3D beamforming small cell

is made up of several antenna

elements and transceivers

arranged in a matrix, enabling

completely flexible vertical and

horizontal beamforming, including beam shaping independent in the

downlink (DL) and uplink (UL).

Beamforming can increase the average macrocell offloading by four

times, and also improve coverage, reduce the number of small cells and

backhaul connections needed, which then cuts down on intercell

interference.

Vodafone felt that in order for operators to be able to move forward,

the industry as a whole needs to accelerate standardisation in the

industry, including in provisioning, increase the availability of multi-

technology small cells in order to reduce site boxes, and build solutions

for small cells that have new service enablers.

“Industry support is critical to maximising the potential of small cells,”

said Vodafone’s Dr Alan Law, New Technologies and Innovation Manager

& Vodafone Distinguished Engineer.

Operators alight with new technologies galore to combat interference, site acquisition and indoor coverage challenges

“INDUSTRY SUPPORT CRITICAL TO MAXIMISINGPOTENTIAL OF SMALL CELLS”, SAY OPERATORS

Paul Gowans, Mobility Marketing Manager, JDSU

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QUALCOMM ATHEROS has announced an integrated 3G/4G LTE small

cells processor portfolio designed for pico, metro and enterprise small

cells, as part of a big push into the network infrastructure market.

The vendor’s new FSM99xx portfolio features 28 nanometre chipsets

and software designed to support operators’ concurrent 3G and 4G

networks, dual carrier 4G with

carrier aggregation, as well as

hosting advanced Wi-Fi

capabilities.

The chips use Qualcomm’s

implementation of the ARM quad

core Krait mobile processors to

half the power used by other

processors, while RF linearisation

techniques reduce power amplifier

power consumption.

Power amplifier power

consumption makes up a big part

of the current small cells “power

budget”, Stuart Strickland, director

of Qualcomm Atheros’ Product

Strategy Networking Business

Unit, told Mobile Europe.

“Power is a big concern as small cells will be powered by Ethernet, so

we're designing chipsets that support that,” he said.

Moreover, the director said the company had “laid the groundwork” for

the new solution to host multiple radio technologies.

“The chip has LTE and 3G capabilities, but it also has a modular

approach that can add wireless backhaul capability and Wi-Fi capability,

which can be plugged down to the host processor,” Strickland commented.

This modularity approach enables Qualcomm Atheros to offer

techniques for advanced HetNet and self-organising networks (SON) as

part of the FSM99xx portfolio, such as the Qualcomm UltraSON suite.

Small cells are meant to be intelligent, autonomous devices that can

sense and adapt to changes in its user environment, whether it’s an

increase in traffic or detecting that

another small cell nearby has

stopped working.

“A lot of these networks will be rolled

out in an unplanned, dynamic way,

where you have a gradual saturation of

an area. We need to be able to provide

organisational algorithms that are

predictable,” said Strickland.

“Not only do we need to make sure

that small cells don't interfere with the

macro network or with each other, but

also if the carrier decides to roll out

one small cell for every 10 houses, and

then five years later decides to roll out

one small cell in every single house,

we want to know what to do.”

According to Strickland, the

eventual aim is to enable operators to have “mix and match” small cells,

with different chips supporting LTE with Wi-Fi for a data-focused

approach or LTE and 3G connecting to the host processor.

“In the longer term, we're going to make the host more robust, capable

of supporting higher throughputs, supporting multiple Wi-Fi radio

frequencies. Right now, carrier devices host four, six or eight Wi-Fi chips

and a single host,” he said.

QUALCOMM DEBUTS 3G, 4G, WI-FI SMALL CELLS PROCESSOR PORTFOLIO

THE SMALL CELL FORUM held its Small Cell Industry Awards at the Hilton

London Metropole Hotel on 5 June, coinciding with Small Cells World

Summit 2013.

Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and NEC were nominated in the Residential

femtocell access point design and technology innovation category, and the

award was won by Cisco for its Scaling Network Vision for Small Cells:

Cisco Management Heartbeat Server solution.

Huawei, Quotus and SpiderCloud were nominated for the Non-residential

(enterprise and public access small cell) design and technology innovation

award, which SpiderCloud won for its small cell system deployed by

Vodafone - ‘Transforming the Cellular Service Offering in Enterprises’.

Korean operator SK Telecom was one of the big winners, beating

Cisco and the Raidsys-Airspan joint venture in the Small cell network

element design and technology innovation category with its commercial

deployment of LTE Femtocell with five innovative technologies and

roadmap for outdoor small cell.

It also won the award for most innovative operator in a commercial

deployment.

When it came to the best small cell service of application, Vodafone

Greece beat Alcatel-Lucent and the ip.access-SiRRAN JV with its “Free 3G

Hotspot” service.

Innovation in a commercial deployment was won by Vodafone and

Huawei, who worked together on the MetroZone Small Cells Solution to

enable ‘Smart Cities’, while Vodafone won for the award for best progress

in deploying a commercial deployment.

The small cell forum’s chairman Gordon Mansfield also selected two

individuals for the Chairman’s award, which acknowledges outstanding

contributions in assisting the small cell forum with its work.

ip.access’ Nick Johnson won for leading the Release Steering

Committee and establishing the roadmap for Release Two and beyond,

while CBNL’s Julius Robson was recognised for his work in delivering the

Backhaul Whitepaper and supporting the release steering committee.

Puneet Sethi, Product Manager, Business Development, Qualcomm

Cloud-based storage and HD sports coverage present new opportunities

SMALL CELLS INDUSTRY AWARDS: OPERATORSAND VENDORS WIN BIG ON INNOVATIVE DESIGNS



Mobile Europe: What was your presentation at the Summit about?

Kevin Baughan: It was a summary of our work putting together the smallcells hosting service, bringing a city’s assets, such as street columns,

together with our fibre backhaul in order to create this rich environment to

enable small cells deployments.

We looked at what we'd learnt so far, focusing on an innovation layer,

where we've used Wi-Fi very effectively in cities like Leeds and Bradford

and a capacity layer from the small cells which complements the coverage

layer with more traditional macro cell.

Moving forward, we're looking to explore the wireless backhaul

component of our portfolio. We have fibre that serves a small group of

street columns. Fibre goes into what we call the "root column" and then it's

extended by wireless to a couple of columns in each direction around it.

We also announced a trial we're kicking off to validate the architecture

and see how well it works with the millimetre wireless links, typically in the

60MHz band, and the microwave arena.

Tell us more about your hosting service and why it will appeal tooperators...

Our starting point is to make sure that we can leverage our fibre network to

good advantage for mobile operators. We’re seeing an opportunity to solve

the key problems they've got with backhaul, sites and power, by bringing

two things together – the rich fibre networks we're blessed with in major

cities and the availability of columns from the cities together.

Together we can tackle the really difficult challenges of, 'Where do I put

it?', 'How do I get great backhaul?' and 'Where do I get electricity from?' so

that deployments can be flexible and cost-efficient.

These have been identified in many surveys as some of the key blockers

for small cells deployments. We think that by putting out the small cells

hosting service, which really tackles those difficult environmental challenges,

we're creating an environment where it's much easier for mobile operators.

I guess we don't see the point in building a capacity layer with no

capacity. If you're going to go for this, you need the confidence that it works

on 3G cells at 45 Mbps, but would go all the way to a group of LTE cells at

100s of Mbps each. For us, looking ahead of the next 10 years, it's all about

dealing with that explosive demand and allowing the radios to work as well

as they can.

If you go back eight years, I was working on the same step change in

fixed broadband. At that stage, we sat around wondering if anyone would

even want a high-speed service above 1Mbps.

That whole world still sits ahead of the mobile operators, and really, we're

designing it to deal with a 50-100 percent compound growth rate every

year for the next 10 years.

How do you make small cells deployments more cost-effective foroperators?

For us, it's getting a great total cost of ownership. It about looking at all the

things that have to happen to support a large number of small cell

deployments and working on those so that the total cost is right. That

doesn't mean using cheap components, but using great components very

smartly in order to tackle that cost of ownership.

If you tried to deploy a hundred small cells in a city, a big chunk of that

complexity would be having a hundred lead discussions with building

owners in order to mount them. That is a big administrative cost,

uncertainty, time delays and all that is solved by having a single permission

by the city to use their columns.

A city can help by providing a single consent from all its street columns.

Planning permission is still required, but at the end of the day you can

reach a partnership with the city that takes a big chunk of the cost out of

the deployment.

The second problem is the backhaul capacity. If you're going to build a

capacity layer, make sure it's a great one. It's about us understanding how

to extend the fibre network. If you look at work we've done in Leeds and

Bradford, the lengths we dug, which is a key component of the cost of

bringing in the fibre, it's about 10-20 metres. So if we can find locations that

operators need to use, that are within 10-20 metres of where the fibre is, we

can get the fibre to those locations. Fibre is the number one choice for

operators provided it's at the right price point and it's available.

What about interference issues?

We've chosen two backhaul technologies to trial. What we're doing in the

millimetre "V Band", which works at 60GHz, is turning a previous weakness

into a great strength.

The 60GHz band suffers from oxygen absorption and so it doesn't go as

far as other bands. In the past it hasn't been used that heavily as it doesn't

go the kind of distances people wanted for a wireless backhaul link. In a

city you don't need to go kilometres in your small cell architecture, you just

need to go a couple hundred metres. So then what you've got is a band

very capable of working at that kind of distance, with great capacity and a

nice narrow beam. Dr Partho Mishra, VP & General Manager, Service Provider Access Group, Cisco

Q&A: VIRGIN MEDIA BUSINESS’ DIRECTOR OF WIRELESSKevin Baughan, director of wireless at Virgin Media Business, discusses its new, hosted small cells proposition


The key test at 60GHz will be making sure that any movement of the

pole doesn't cause a problem with the alignment. But at the same time, it's

great for whizzing it across a busy road where you have buses and lorries

going up and down, to make sure that you've got a strong connection.

Then there are microwave systems, which work in their own spectrum.

We work in combination with the operators who own those bands of

spectrum for the microwave links.

Microwaves have got a broader beam and very clever designs that make

sure they stay connected to their neighbouring units, so they quite often

have multiple antennas and little motorised units to make sure they stay

perfectly aligned.

The interesting test is to make sure they perform well with very large metal

reflectors called buses zooming up and down the road beneath them. We're

expecting them to perform well but we’ll validate that in the tests.

What other key challenges do operators still have to face?

Apart from getting the right site, the power and the backhaul, operators

have two big areas to focus on. First, is the availability of small cells. We're

seeing the right products coming out with right form factors and

characteristics, for example Huawei's Atom Cell, and we did trials in the

past with Alcatel-Lucent units. The operators need to get on with finding

and selecting small cells, and the vendors need to get on with making them

available.

Second, is thinking through the coordination, [such as] the radio

planning aspect, to make sure that, if needed, the small cell can talk to the

macrocell, and intercell interference coordination is running and active.

That's why a lot of operators want small cells from the same vendors who

provided the macrocell, so that they can ensure really good intercell

interference coordination.

In my mind, an easier way to do this is that if you've got the 2.6GHz

spectrum, you could almost deploy it as a kind of "small cells layer". The

idea is that if you don't deploy 2.6GHz (which doesn't exist for small cells at

the moment) and you deploy 800 MHz, you can deploy 2.6GHz. This

means you wouldn't need to coordinate with the macrocell, you'd only have

to organise within the small cells architecture, which is an easier problem

than coordinating with the macrocell.

There are other challenges too, particularly around partnership. London

Underground [is a good example of] a strong partnership as is those we

have with cities such as Leeds.

In order to really make use of another organisation's assets, like

underground stations or street columns in a city, it's about a really good

partnership between two groups and an ability to work together to make

the assets available.

Without the help of the London Underground, for example, the Wi-Fi

network wouldn't have succeeded in time for last year’s Olympics and

wouldn't have continued to grow.

Without the help of the cities, it makes it much harder to mount the small

cells. In a city, columns in busy areas tend to be "busy". It's not just about a

light, it's about advertising banners, festive lights. Columns in popular areas

are themselves quite busy, so sometimes councils need to make decisions

about what can go on a column.

In Leeds, the council had to decide to take down additional lights in

order to make space for the small cells unit. Other constrictions are getting

space in the base of the column to put an electrical isolator for your unit.

Paul Senior, CTO, Airspan

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INFOVISTA HAS A FEAR – a fear that backhaul will be increasingly more

difficult for operators as they move towards full-scale 4G LTE and LTE-A

deployments, especially if small cells are involved.

“When it comes to small cells, we’ve already surpassed macrocells, and

we're only at the beginning. This is a bit frightening to me. From a macro

perspective, i.e. 3G, 3.5G, 4G, the transition to IP in the backhaul has been

very difficult for operators,” says Juan Pablo Prieto Baez, Product

Marketing Manager, Mobile Services, InfoVista.

“Operators need to start managing each new technology they deploy

properly, straight away from the beginning. The problem with LTE is that

there is so much to gain at the moment, that the last thing they're worried

about right now is performance.”

Baez feels that operators aren’t

considering performance on LTE

networks as there are not too many

handsets on LTE right now, but

once subscribers complete their

contracts and more people have

LTE handsets, there will be a great

spike in traffic.

“Some operators are very

proactive in spotting potential

trouble spots in the future and

avoiding them, but if you have

100,000 small cells plus 20,000

macrocells, that's 120,000 trouble

spots. If something goes wrong,

you could end up with more than

120,000 backhaul connection

problems,” he said.

InfoVista feels that the first step

an operator should take towards

deploying small cells should be to optimise its frequency spectrum.

“You would be surprised how many operators are not 100 percent sure

on their frequency spectrums. The newer the technology, the better the

efficiency, but one technology is not good enough for every single cell. To

get the most out of your network, some self-optimising network (SON)

features should be deployed as soon as possible,” he says.

“If your network starts changing dynamically and operating on its own,

and you haven't optimised your macrocell network, how can you even

plan for small cells? First you need to know where you have spikes of

traffic and lack of capacity on your current 3G network.”

According to Baez, since small cells are much simpler in construction,

Dr John Naylon, CTO, CBNL



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InfoVista’s Juan Pablo Prieto Baez tells Mary-Ann Russon about the challenges and pitfalls associatedwith rushing through a small cells deployment without analysing and optimising the network first

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operators need to take special

care when balancing traffic loads,

and the best way to do that is

with SON.

Once you’ve got SON

functionality on board, operators

next need to look closely at

where the traffic in their networks

comes from.

InfoVista analyses various

forms of traffic, such as macro

traffic, geo-location traffic and

even dynamic social media

traffic, to produce high-definition

3D maps showing peak traffic

spots over time.

“You might even realise, based on this map, that deploying a macrocell

would make more sense, even if it's more expensive, compared to

installing 10 small cells and the complexity of [figuring out] the backhaul

connections,” Baez adds.

Another mistake operators are making is that they don’t always know

how much capacity and coverage they actually have in their networks, so

when they decide to deploy a new macrocell or small cell, they’re working

based on a simulation, which means costly mistakes are possible.

“Operators are spending a tremendous amount of money tweaking

their macro networks. If they don't get the small cells right, they could

end up spending three to four times that amount – you don't have the

flexibility of changing antenna tilts with small cells, you'd need to

physically climb up there to adjust them,” says Baez.

“You don't want to be wasting money putting in new poles and installing

the small cell, and then discovering that

you should have put the pole somewhere

else and then have to move the backhaul

there.”

One of the key issues mentioned by

operators at the Small Cells World Summit

is the difficulty in managing interference

between small cells and the macro network,

as well as interference between different

types of small cells from different vendors.

“If you're an operator and you have a

SON interference algorithm from your

small cells vendor, and your macrocells

vendor has another SON interference

algorithm, how will you stop interference

between both vendors?” asks Baez.

InfoVista believes that operators need to move away from the traditional

method of “working in silos”, as networks are “way more dynamic than

they used to be”.

“On the IP side of things, it's important to plan the networks across the

technology. Operators need to get their engineers to plan the backhaul

connection regardless of what technology is being used, be it millimetre

wave or fibre. Get the same people to plan the networks, as in the end of

the day all you're doing is connecting all the different bits together,”

comments Baez.

“This is the best way to ensure cost efficiency and good performance as

IP backhaul, namely microwave and millimetre wave, has caused a lot of

headaches. New things like millimetre wave or Wi-Fi backhaul – if you pair

it with a TDM connection of the past, in terms of reliability, they're on two

different sides of the spectrum.”


Todd Mersch, Senior Director, Software & Solutions, Radisys


WIRELESS NETWORK SOLUTIONS provider Altobridge has launched a

platform at the Small Cells World Summit that enables multi-layered

caching both at the base station and on subscribers’ mobile devices, to aid

operators in freeing up their core macrocell radio access networks.

Altobridge’s Data-at-the-edge software enables operators to provide

content at the edge of their networks together with help from Intel’s low-

power single and multi-core Atom processors, which can be placed in small

cells as well as in the Management Gateway located in the core network.

Altobridge has already deployed its software commercially with

Southeast Asian operator Maxis in Malaysia in November 2012, but today’s

announcement extends the caching capability all the way to the

subscriber’s handset.

“Before this, the content server was located outside the packet core, and

it doesn’t make sense to have a popular YouTube stream using up the

RAN,” Mike Fitzgerald, CEO of Altobridge told Mobile Europe.

“What we’ve seen here at the Small Cells World Summit is that in some

countries, the bottom line is that operators will have to pay more tax for

small cells.

“There's no question that coverage and capacity remain top priorities to

operators, but if you're going to go to the trouble of deploying millions of

small cells, you should at least have something in it to generate revenue.”

The concept is that content can be pushed through to the subscribers’

handsets before they awaken, for example, the latest news in their news

apps or the latest car brochure from a brand app, for example.

In addition, the content can also be hosted at the edge of the network in

the base station, thus freeing up the network for operators looking to offer

premium services.

While the solution sounds a lot like Liquid Applications, touted by Nokia

Siemens Networks recently at Mobile World Congress in February,

Fitzgerald says that Altobridge’s platform is meant to complement

infrastructure providers’ equipment.

“What we did that was quite different was that we went ahead and rolled

it out by ourselves as we knew we had to prove ourselves, prove that it

worked and show operators the benefits, in order for the OEMs to come

out to play,” he said.

“3G and 4G networks can now deliver the same experiences. We're

balancing the network out so that the device experience can be the same

as a laptop on a wired fibre connection or Wi-Fi access point.”

ALTOBRIDGE DEBUTS INTEL-BASED NETWORKEDGE SMALL CELLS CACHING SOLUTION

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