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Postcards from Barcelona: MWC Day 1
Rick Merritt
2/27/2012 5:06 PM EST
Big efforts on small cells
Small base stations are the hot topic for infrastructure suppliers at MWC. Tod Sizer (above), a Bell Labs research who invented the Cube, a tiny RF module for such systems, shared his thoughts on the technologies such systems will need.
Alcatel-Lucent's chief technologist, Marcus Weldon (bottom) said the company is co-developing base stations with as many as seven operators including Spain's Telefonica which deployed more than 11 of them around the MWC exhibition, the largest deployment outside a lab to date.
The company showed at its booth prototypes of some of its small cells (above). The LTE versions are still larger than the shoebox size the Alca-Lu has targeted with its 3G versions, and they still lack plug-in modules supporting Wi-Fi offload.
Next: Converging on LTE?
Small base stations are the hot topic for infrastructure suppliers at MWC. Tod Sizer (above), a Bell Labs research who invented the Cube, a tiny RF module for such systems, shared his thoughts on the technologies such systems will need.
Alcatel-Lucent's chief technologist, Marcus Weldon (bottom) said the company is co-developing base stations with as many as seven operators including Spain's Telefonica which deployed more than 11 of them around the MWC exhibition, the largest deployment outside a lab to date.
The company showed at its booth prototypes of some of its small cells (above). The LTE versions are still larger than the shoebox size the Alca-Lu has targeted with its 3G versions, and they still lack plug-in modules supporting Wi-Fi offload.
Next: Converging on LTE?
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prabhakar_deosthali
2/28/2012 6:36 AM EST
Looks to be an impressive show. I liked the concept of the remote presence demonstrated by the Veego Robot.
With such a robot may be I will be able to attend many of these exhibitions and shows without leaving my drawing room
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