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From: Frank A. Coluccio3/19/2010 1:18:12 AM
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Wireless Controlled from the Cloud - An IBM project promises cheaper network management.

By Duncan Graham-Rowe | MIT Technology Review | March 19, 2010

Snippet: A new architecture called the Wireless Network Cloud (WNC) marks a step away from using dedicated hardware in the radio base stations that serve wireless networks like GSM and 3G cell phone networks, says Ling Shao, senior manager of System Software and Appliances at IBM's China Research Lab, in Beijing. With WNC, the radio antennas are physically decoupled from the base stations, with the latter existing virtually, within general-purpose data centers at distant locations.

technologyreview.com

[ despite not stating as much, this article is about RF over glass feeding distributed antenna systems ... which is what WiFi/WLAN vendors will come to dread the most, in due time ... or embrace... or not ... ]

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