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Celcite started life as a services company, helping tier one mobile operators in the US with their resource needs. This experience on the front line of a mobile operator’s network operations gave Celcite invaluable insight into what keeps the network operations team awake at night. Networks were becoming increasingly complicated, evolving from being a one-technology one-vendor environment, to being multi-technology and multi-vendor battlefields.
iPhone 5 Wreaks Havoc on Networks
The long-awaited, LTE-enabled iPhone 5 launched recently on most mobile operators’ networks worldwide, and has become the latest must-have device. Operators were hoping that their networks would be able to withstand the onslaught of data traffic driven by the iPhone 5 and other devices boasting similar LTE functionality. But it is wreaking havoc!
Small cells - the capacity management trend
The explosion in mobile data is transforming the way mobile network operators manage spectrum usage, traffic balancing, coverage, and network capacity issues.
Managing the network in a real-life multi-RAT environment
Listening to all the hype about LTE, you would be forgiven for thinking that once LTE networks are rolled out they will sweep away everything that went before, and we will all benefit from continuous fast mobile data connections. In fact, by 2016 LTE will still only account for 10% of the world’s subscribers, and coverage will be far from ubiquitous.
SON – the key to efficiently managing the LTE ecosystem
During the LTE Masterclass at the LTE World Summit in Barcelona, Ajay Khanna, CTO and VP of Engineering, discussed the challenges of rolling out an efficient and profitable LTE network on top of the existing 2G /3G technologies and multiple vendor equipment deployments.
