The Big Small Cell Update by iGR

iGR Wireless Research presented this webinar recently. The brief from the webinar says:

Small cells are becoming an increasingly important part of the 4G and 5G infrastructure, despite the issues with deployment. iGR is continually updating its extensive research on the small cell opportunity, including total addressable market, actual deployments and TCO.

This webinar provides an update on iGR’s view of the indoor, outdoor, CBRS, mmWave and sub 2.5 GHz small cells

There is a lot of useful information but I should mention this is very USA specific.

There is no direct link but you can register to watch the webinar recording here. 

LTE C-RAN / Fronthaul Architectures

Its been a while since I talked about C-RAN on this blog. Meanwhile on the 3G4G blog, a presentation by Orange labs have proved to be very popular. Netmanias have posted couple of slideshares on the C-RAN architecture. They are as follows:

The first one is NTT Docomo's advanced C-RAN architecture. I have posted a presentation on Slideshare as well on this topic. It can be viewed here for more details.

The next one is the Fronthaul and Backhaul architecture by SK Telecom. I have a slideshare on a similar topic by SK Telecom here. In fact a post on 3G4G blog from the iGR whitepaper here is an interesting read on this topic as well.