Posts Tagged ‘capacity crunch’

A new era of high speed mobile data has arrived – but it won’t just be LTE

Blogger: David Chambers This month sees major launches of LTE around the world: the U.S., Scandinavia, Germany and Japan can now all enjoy the promised high speed, low-latency data in many areas. I saw a demonstration of an LTE trial network recently which was very impressive – flawless HDTV streaming, peak speeds of 40Mbit/s while [...]

Service Providers Feel the Data Capacity Crunch

BLOGGER: DAVID CHAMBERS According to Chetan Sharma, a leading analyst specialising on the wireless-data industry, U.S. consumers will go through an average of some 325 MB a month by the end of 2010, up 112 percent from 2009. Total U.S. wireless-data traffic will exceed 1 Exabyte this year and is forecast to continue growing rapidly. [...]

Taking the bite out of capacity crunch

Blog article by: Mirit Ashkenazi By 2017, there will be a predicted seven trillion networked devices. To support this connected world, where bandwidth-hungry devices and applications are connected anytime and anywhere, service providers will have no choice but to upgrade their networks to overcome the looming capacity crunch.  No-one is feeling this pressure more than [...]