Growing Your Microwave Capacity

Making Sense of the Options to Determine What’s Best for You

Microwave technology is evolving rapidly to meet the ever increasing demands for data throughput.

The recent data explosion has created a burden on communications networks to provide the necessary capacities to support the network and its applications. Networks that were initially deployed to carry low capacity voice circuits are now faced with the challenges of being increasingly adaptive, elastic and intelligent to accommodate the constantly evolving traffic it carries. Continue reading

My Takeaways from IEEE 5G World Forum Panel Discussion on vRAN and 5G Transport

by Gary Croke

On July 10th, I participated in a panel at IEEE 5G World Forum with colleagues from Vodafone, Bell Labs/Nokia, Facebook and Collinear.

FORUM: 5G vRAN Over Less than Ideal Backhaul

Through a lively discussion and exchange of ideas we explored backhaul/fronthaul considerations in a virtualized RAN in 5G network. We discussed CRAN, vRAN and their benefits, challenges and issues. Continue reading