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  10 top reasons for integrating Wi-Fi radios in small cellular cells

  With the growing demand for mobile data, cellular service operators are increasingly turning to small cells -- picocells, microcells, metrocells and femtocells -- to deal with the capacity crunch in dense urban areas and to add coverage in areas with low or zero cellular signal levels, such as indoors and in remote rural locations.

  By Ajay Kumar Gupta, team lead at Wesley Clover Communications Solutions | 16 May, 2012 00:47

  Tags: WLANs / Wi-Fi, wireless, Wi-Fi on-load, Wi-Fi handover, Wi-Fi backhaul, wi-fi, small cells, picocells, networking, microcells, metrocells, femtocells, Ericsson, data offload, alcatel-lucent

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  Small cells could raise big problems

  Amid growing interest in small cells, widely seen as an inevitable tool for carriers to deal with booming mobile data demand, there are now signs that it may be hard to derive the expected benefits from them in some cases.

  By Stephen Lawson | 11 May, 2012 00:52

  Tags: Telecommunication, sprint nextel, Regulation, mobile, government, Ericsson, ctia, Carriers, 4g

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  Ericsson lets operators speed up mobile, fixed networks using caching

  Using caching technology from Akamai Technologies, Ericsson's Smart Cloud Accelerator, announced Wednesday, is designed to allow operators to improve performance in both fixed and mobile networks.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 00:42

  Tags: Telecommunication, routers, networking hardware, networking, Ericsson, ctia, Carriers, broadband, Akamai Technologies, 4g, 3g

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  RIM names new COO, CMO

  Research in Motion (RIM) on Tuesday appointed a new chief operating officer (COO) and chief marketing officer (CMO) as RIM prepares to launch BlackBerry 10 smartphones later this year in hopes of reversing a decline in its global smartphone share.

  By Matt Hamblen | 09 May, 2012 03:46

  Tags: sony, smartphones, rim, Management and Careers, LightSquared, Ericsson, consumer electronics

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  Cisco, Juniper among new software-defined networking research center's founders

  Cisco, Juniper, HP and nine other technology companies have joined forces with two leading universities to form a research center focused on software-defined networking (SDN).

  By Bob Brown | 11 April, 2012 03:24

  Tags: Cisco, Ericsson, Google, Intel, LAN & WAN, NEC, ONRC, Open Networking Research Center, SDN, software, software-defined networking, Stanford University, VMware

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  Microsoft, Apple free to flex Nortel patent muscles

  Apple, Microsoft and a handful of other tech companies are now free to license $US4.5 billion in patents they bought at auction last year from bankrupt Nortel, which could open up a can of worms for companies using technology covered by the patents.

  By Tim Greene | 16 March, 2012 02:32

  Tags: Apple, EMC, Ericsson, htc, Microsoft, Motorola, networking, patents, research in motion, Rockstar Consortium, software, sony, wireless

• Ericsson to acquire Technicolor's broadcast services division

  Ericsson has made an offer to acquire the Broadcast Services Division of Technicolor, as it looks to make further inroads into the broadcast market, the company said on Tuesday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 13 March, 2012 23:23

  Tags: business issues, Carriers, Ericsson, mergers and acquisitions, Telecommunication

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  Wi-Fi, small cells could disrupt mobile

  The rise of mixed mobile networks of Wi-Fi, small cells and traditional base stations, a major theme of this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, may change the competitive landscape of both service providers and equipment vendors.

  By Stephen Lawson | 02 March, 2012 06:50

  Tags: 4g, alcatel-lucent, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, MWC, networking, Ruckus Wireless, Telecommunication, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  Ericsson joins OpenStack, aiming at operators with cloud ambitions

  Ericsson has joined OpenStack as part of its plan to serve operators that want to become cloud computing providers, the company said on Tuesday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 29 February, 2012 06:22

  Tags: Carriers, cloud computing, Ericsson, internet, MWC, Telecommunication

• Ericsson extends SON to automate mixed mobile networks

  Ericsson took a step to simplify carrier mobile networks on Tuesday, during a Mobile World Congress show where infrastructure is getting more complex.

  By Stephen Lawson | 29 February, 2012 01:58

  Tags: 3g, 4g, Ericsson, mobile, MWC, networking, Telecommunication, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  Ericsson increases uplink capacity for HSPA

  Ericsson can increase upload capacity by a factor of three in HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) networks, thanks to the use of more antennas and proprietary interference suppression technology, the company said on Wednesday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 23 February, 2012 02:02

  Tags: 3g, broadband, Carriers, Ericsson, MWC, Telecommunication

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  Ericsson acquires Wi-Fi specialist BelAir Networks

  Ericsson has entered into an agreement to buy privately held Canadian Wi-Fi company BelAir Networks, as operators get increasingly interested in using Wi-Fi to offload their networks.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 February, 2012 00:48

  Tags: BelAir Networks, Carriers, Ericsson, MWC, networking, Telecommunication, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  Airvana sues Ericsson over femtocell technology

  Femtocell developer Airvana is charging Ericsson with breaching their contract over femtocell technology, in a lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York.

  By Nancy Gohring | 09 February, 2012 06:51

  Tags: Airvana, Ericsson, intellectual property, legal, mobile

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  Greenpeace scorecard documents greener enterprise offerings

  Technology companies are not just making their products less carbon-intensive; they are also increasingly designing products to improve energy efficiency in the industries that they serve, according to the latest in a series of Greenpeace ratings of the sector's energy practices.

  By Cameron Scott | 08 February, 2012 16:01

  Tags: at&t, Cisco Systems, environment, Ericsson, Google, Green data center, hardware systems, IBM, oracle, servers, Softbank

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  Vendors show voice call hand-off between LTE, 3G networks

  Qualcomm this week revealed a key step in enabling voice calls over LTE handsets. Working with Ericsson, the chipmaker says it recently completed the first voice call handover between LTE and 3G networks, and will showcase the achievement later this month at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

  By John Cox | 03 February, 2012 08:28

  Tags: 3G & 4G, Ericsson, LTE voice, Mobile World Congress, MWC, networking, qualcomm, single radio voice call continuity, SRVCC, Voice over LTE, VoLTE, WiMAX & LTE, wireless