Rise of the Private Droid Nets: MulteFire Release 1.1 adds NB-1 support. Unlicensed spectrum networks have new options or competition depending on your point of view. This is the next layer of the CBRS story that develops from cable companies deploying 'flash networks' popping up like mushrooms after a lightning storm, or blackberry brambles. This is the story describing the BIG 4 nightmare: private networks taking away the Enterprise Accounts of today and tomorrow. And it also highlights why BIG RED entered the unlicensed network business recently - gotta be proactive.
Buried in this LightReading Huawei PR news piece is an update on MulteFire Release 1.1
For a company whose expertise is LTE radio tech, SEQUANS, this is especially good news since LTE provides security together with all the digital IP we rely on.
And, just for fun, I'll add this news from ARRIS the ODM product developer known for set top boxes and more thanks to Mari Silbey. The story there is M&A though they do refer to software in the IP stack of priorities.
However, it is useful to know what is in the mind of Brand Leaders; and for a leader of unlicensed spectrum routers to describe the need for greater capability is suggestive of more than his own company's needs.
Sooo.... do they need more capability in their Ruckus boxes? Do they buy a more complex SoC or just add the additional network-certified LTE-tech chip from SEQUANS to what they already have inside?
Either way, these two stories indicate that LTE-over-Unlicensed is gaining resources ahead of deployment.
And in case you aren't recalling, CBRS is a specific band range for LTE-over-Unlicensed.
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lightreading.com
Huawei eLTE Leads Global Commercial Deployment of MulteFire Technology 3/6/2018 BARCELONA -- During the MWC 2018, the MulteFire Alliance hosted an Open Day event. Dr. Said Tatesh, on behalf of Huawei, presented the latest progress of Huawei’s eLTE solution that supports the MulteFire standard. He shared some commercial use cases of eLTE in diverse verticals, such as automation ports, intelligent transportation and digital industrial parks, demonstrating the maturity of the MulteFire industry. During this Open Day, the MulteFire Alliance introduced the forthcoming MulteFire Release 1.1. Previous MulteFire Release 1.0 had focused mainly on broadband applications of LTE technology on unlicensed spectrum, while Release 1.1 will extend MulteFire to the use of narrowband IoT technology. This provides enterprises with reliable, flexible, stable, safe and efficient wireless connectivity services...
“Based on MulteFire standard, eLTE-U has realized performance of LTE and the ease of Wi-Fi deployment by introducing advanced anti-interference techniques, scheduling and security encryption of LTE into unlicensed spectrum.” ....
lightreading.com
Arris Not Ruling Out More M&A MARI SILBEY, Senior Editor, Cable/Video 3/6/2018 Arris isn't giving up on set-tops, but it doesn't want to live and die by them either. Video customer premises equipment contributes 45% of overall revenue to the Arris Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRS) business. Yet according to Raymond James analyst Simon Leopold's calculations, set-tops deliver only around 10% of the company's operating income. That's a massive disconnect on the margin front, and it shows just how much scale Arris needs to make any kind of profit on in-home video hardware. It also points to why Arris is expanding into new technology fields and vertical sectors, continuing the M&A hunt as it did most recently with the acquisition of Ruckus...
rcrwireless.com
Small cell vendors launch LTE-U solutions BY MARTHA DEGRASSE ON FEBRUARY 18, 2016... Samsung is launching an LTE-U EFemto cell that uses Qualcomm’s FSM9955 chipset... Ruckus Wireless and Boingo Wireless seem to see the writing on the wall; both have joined a new consortium called the MulteFire Alliance, which is working to develop an LTE-based technology for small cells operating solely in unlicensed spectrum. SpiderCloud Wireless, also a member of the MulteFire Alliance, plans to work with Qualcomm to develop LTE-U...using Qualcomm’s FSM9900, a small cell system-on-chip designed to support both LTE and 3G, as well as carrier aggregation... China Mobile is already trialling LTE-U small cells based on Intel’s Transcede system-on-chip, with deployments planned for later this year. China’s Baicells is the maker of the Light4G small cell solution used by China Mobile. The Light4G integrates Radisys’ TotaleNodeB software, enhanced with LTE-U functionality...
the-mobile-network.com
Small Cells World Summit 2017 Report By Keith Dyer 25 May 2017 The day before the Summit started Nokia assembled a few journalists in a meeting room and gave them a portfolio update. Of note in this was the revelation that the company will be shipping tens of thousands, in fact more than 50 thousand, of its Mini Macro cell sites to Sprint. This is on top of another wide scale roll out of the boxes – which are 2x20W sites in a 5 litre box – in China and Japan where the vendor expects to ship another 40,000. There are
3,000 headed to Brazil, as well, to be deployed as an underlay under Ericsson macro cells. The company is also supporting a range of shared and unlicensed methods in both its RRH and “all-in-one” small cells, including LWA, LAA, MulteFire and CBRS, where it is testing interoperability against several SAS providers. Also upcoming from Nokia will be a new cloud-based FlexiZone Controller product... Watanabe said that KDDI sees MIMO in LTE bands as a solution to meeting some density requirements, rather than moving directly to hyper dense small cell deployments, and Hanif agreed that deploying features such as higher order MIMO to macro sites can achieve gains quicker than deploying denser, small cell-based, networks... Nokia added that its Airscale Micro RRH will support LTE and LAA as well as CBRS, as will its “all in one” multiband small cells...
telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com
Nokia to introduce private mobile networks for vertical industries Nokia will introduce private end-to-end networks for vertical industries which will leverage licensed, unlicensed and shared spectrum. ETTelecom | February 13, 2017 Nokia to introduce private mobile networks for vertical industries NEW DELHI: Telecom equipment and device maker Nokia will introduce private end-to-end networks for vertical industries which will leverage licensed, unlicensed and shared spectrum. The company will also make multi-operator and multi-access network interworking commercially available... The tech giant will
demonstrate how enterprises and hospitality industry in United States will be able to use the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) shared spectrum to deploy private LTE for their own business needs while also providing access to operators' subscribers... The Nokia flexible multi-access Cloud Packet Core enables common anchoring of licensed spectrum such as 2G, 3G, and 5G as well as shared and unlicensed spectrum including Wi-Fi, MulteFire and LTE-based CBRS technologies...
wirelessweek.com
New MulteFire Alliance Spec Enables LTE Operation on Unlicensed Spectrum Alone 01/17/2017 The MulteFire Alliance has done away with the necessity for an anchor in licensed spectrum in its new Release 1.0 specification, enabling LTE operation using unlicensed spectrum alone. Building on 3GPP’s Release 13 Licensed Assisted Access requirements for the downlink and Release 14’s enhanced LAA for the uplink, MulteFire Alliance’s 1.0 spec for the first time defines LTE to operate in unlicensed and shared spectrum only in the 5 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands. Additional bands are expected to be added down the line as regulatory bodies across the globe free up more shared spectrum suitable for MulteFire... |
