William Webb, Author at Real Wireless

Who really needs near-zero latency?

by William Webb | Jan 12, 2017 | Real Wireless blog, Uncategorised

One of the ‘generational’ shifts associated with 5G is the promise of near-zero latency. Now for most engineers, the reduction of latency is generally seen as a necessary good, which is why putting it at the heart of the 5G value proposition is so rarely questioned....

Wi-Fi first? – William Webb, Regulatory and Spectrum Expert, Real Wireless

by William Webb | Nov 29, 2016 | Real Wireless blog, Uncategorised

In developing wireless communications over the past three decades we have been chasing ever-faster speeds and ever higher capacity. This has delivered astonishing benefits for all of us that have truly transformed our lives. But the speed of data connection is now...

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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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