April 2018 - Real Wireless

Copper out in front

by Dr Abhaya Sumanasena | Apr 27, 2018 | Real Wireless blog

Whether the virtualised RAN (vRAN) will be adopted as a mainstream basis for 5G is an important question – but another question may need answering first: what form should the fronthaul link between the virtualised, centralised baseband unit (BBU) and the radio/antenna...

How 5G IoT is doing down on the (UK) farm

by Simon Fletcher | Apr 12, 2018 | 5G, Real Wireless blog

The GSMA, in its report Mobilising the Internet of Things, estimates that smart agriculture is the second biggest IoT opportunity, in terms of revenue potential for mobile operators, after smart buildings [[i]]. It clearly has a lot to offer farmers too. Certainly...

After the auctions: why the real work on 5G in the UK has barely begun

by Dr Abhaya Sumanasena | Apr 10, 2018 | 5G, Real Wireless blog

The UK spectrum auctions are over – but what happens now? Here’s what we know so far…. The six spectrum bidders became five and then four as UK national regulator Ofcom announced the outcome of the principal stage of the 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz spectrum auction. All four...

A brave new 5G world?

by Simon Fletcher | Apr 23, 2018 | Featured 5G, Real Wireless blog

A brave new world in which 5G enables new entrants, regulators support a more creative approach to spectrum licensing, and MNOs support both may seem an encouraging response to the possibilities offered by 5G – but it is not necessarily about to happen. Only a few...

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C-RAN – all still up in the air?

by Simon Fletcher | Aug 27, 2020

C-RAN seems to have been a long time coming. I first started exploring the potential of C-RAN back in 2007. Since then there’s been a great deal of industry talk and thousands of pages of standards describing dozens of C-RAN architectures. And I’m still waiting. Cloud...

Can Satcoms at sea improve operations on land?

by Mike Walsh | Aug 27, 2020

We write a lot about the needs of industry and how LTE, Wi-Fi, DAS and 5G, incorporated into a private network, could improve logistics and security and underpin just-in-time operations for airports, sea-ports, factories, stadiums, malls or local government. But what...

Connected vehicles: The long and winding road

The automotive industry’s goal was for every new vehicle to be connected by 2022. Now, less than 18 months out, things are more or less on track. But on track for what? M2M vehicle connectivity is already widely available. This enables a vehicle to be connected to an...

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