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Expanding Our Device Forcing Features
With multiple use areas yielding substantial cost savings, forcing features (or control functions as they are sometimes called) have been an important value-add for any engineer using commercial...
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Best-In-Class Forcing Features with TEMS
A brief look at two popular network testing devices, available now in the TEMS portfolio. Control Functions on Samsung S7 As expected, Samsung revealed the Galaxy S7 at MWC 2016 in Barcelona. Ascom was...
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TEMS iBuildNet: Ray-Tracing
One of the questions we are asked when discussing in-building designs is: “How accurate is your tool?”. It’s easy to answer – 90% of measurements post-deployment are within 5db of the TEMS iBuildNet...
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The Shift from Element-Based to QoE-Based Optimization: A Copernican Revolution?
The way mobile operators optimize their networks has started to change. It has to change to keep up with the growth in usage and the evolution in traffic composition, and operators are aware of the...
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The Future of 5G: 5G Forum USA
The latest on future from 5G Forum USA 2016 in Palo Alto, CA. Thinking back to last week’s 5G Forum USA 2016, I put together a blog post on what I learned and what I thought would be most interesting...
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Ascom at Small Cells World Summit
Exhibitions and shows can be a double-edged sword. When you are on your booth at Mobile World Congress, next to the CEO, it is certainly the best experience of your life (ever!) and you are having a...
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Managing Capacity Expansion
5G is coming, enabling more use cases, more bandwidth, more video… and with it? More complexity. Even in 4G, as carriers roll out VoLTE and other IMS services, complexity is upon us. Today’s...
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Test Use Cases for VoWiFi
It has been about a year or so since our last blog on VoWiFi service and we finally see how the service has been catching speed in the US with At&T, Vzw and apparently Sprint too, all joining the...
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The Effects of QoS on Cellular Capacity
“You know, a cellular network with QoS is a little like the mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it!” -Bastardising Lyle Lanley’s quote about ‘a...
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Small Cells World Summit Review
Small Cells World Summit has been going for a while and it dawned on me that Ascom should have been an exhibitor before, since a number of the people we spoke to on our booth were already customers of...
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