JDSU - Delivering dynamic networks for a personalized experienceSmall Cell Forum
The document discusses testing and monitoring networks for small cell deployments. It addresses challenges like managing complexity of RF and fiber connections and minimizing costs and time to revenue. It promotes simplifying methods and procedures through integrated RF and fiber testing capabilities. The document also discusses automatically analyzing the impact of macro cell signals on indoor users, proactively monitoring backhaul performance through embedded instrumentation, and using analytics to ensure high customer experience within complex networks.
Spidercloud Wireless - Small Cell enterprise deploymentSmall Cell Forum
A joint presentation from Spidercloud Wireless and IBWave on the Small Cell Forum stand at MWC15. A Scalable Small Cell System Practical Medium–Large Enterprise Deployment & Case Studies
iDirect at MWC 15: Satellite – bringing you up to speed for 3G and 4G rural c...Small Cell Forum
This document discusses how satellite technology can provide backhaul connectivity for rural and remote small cell deployments, enabling 3G and 4G coverage. It notes that iDirect provides satellite backhaul solutions that are carrier-class, high-speed, and intelligent, optimizing traffic to provide a terrestrial-like experience. The solutions have been validated with major mobile equipment vendors and can support both fixed rural sites as well as temporary/mobile deployments on ships, planes and trains.
This document discusses densification solutions for indoor cellular networks. It outlines opportunities around blurring the lines between distributed antenna systems and small cells, incorporating WiFi, making networks smarter and more dynamic, and embracing technologies like C-RAN and passive optical LAN. The key benefits highlighted include long-term scalability, lower total cost of ownership, and faster time to revenue through more flexible infrastructure that does not require rip-and-replace upgrades.
iDirect, A Global Leader in Cellular Backhaul Over SatelliteSmall Cell Forum
iDirect is a global leader in providing cellular backhaul over satellite, with over 55 mobile networks using their technology. Their SatHaul solution uses satellite routers and optimization software to provide the most efficient and cost effective voice and data backhaul for 2G, 3G, and 4G/LTE networks over satellite. This enables mobile operators to extend network coverage to rural and remote areas in a secure and bandwidth efficient manner.
Alcatel Lucent: The LTW Necessity – Ensuring high performance indoor experien...Small Cell Forum
The document discusses the need for LTE in homes and enterprises to improve coverage, quality of service, and facilitate the transition to 4G. It introduces Alcatel-Lucent's 9961 multi-standard home cell and 9962 multi-standard enterprise cell series, which support both 3G and 4G using a single system-on-chip. It also describes new features like LTE-U/LAA, Wi-Fi boost, and their combination to enhance performance by blending Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity.
JDSU - Delivering dynamic networks for a personalized experienceSmall Cell Forum
The document discusses testing and monitoring networks for small cell deployments. It addresses challenges like managing complexity of RF and fiber connections and minimizing costs and time to revenue. It promotes simplifying methods and procedures through integrated RF and fiber testing capabilities. The document also discusses automatically analyzing the impact of macro cell signals on indoor users, proactively monitoring backhaul performance through embedded instrumentation, and using analytics to ensure high customer experience within complex networks.
Spidercloud Wireless - Small Cell enterprise deploymentSmall Cell Forum
A joint presentation from Spidercloud Wireless and IBWave on the Small Cell Forum stand at MWC15. A Scalable Small Cell System Practical Medium–Large Enterprise Deployment & Case Studies
iDirect at MWC 15: Satellite – bringing you up to speed for 3G and 4G rural c...Small Cell Forum
This document discusses how satellite technology can provide backhaul connectivity for rural and remote small cell deployments, enabling 3G and 4G coverage. It notes that iDirect provides satellite backhaul solutions that are carrier-class, high-speed, and intelligent, optimizing traffic to provide a terrestrial-like experience. The solutions have been validated with major mobile equipment vendors and can support both fixed rural sites as well as temporary/mobile deployments on ships, planes and trains.
This document discusses densification solutions for indoor cellular networks. It outlines opportunities around blurring the lines between distributed antenna systems and small cells, incorporating WiFi, making networks smarter and more dynamic, and embracing technologies like C-RAN and passive optical LAN. The key benefits highlighted include long-term scalability, lower total cost of ownership, and faster time to revenue through more flexible infrastructure that does not require rip-and-replace upgrades.
iDirect, A Global Leader in Cellular Backhaul Over SatelliteSmall Cell Forum
iDirect is a global leader in providing cellular backhaul over satellite, with over 55 mobile networks using their technology. Their SatHaul solution uses satellite routers and optimization software to provide the most efficient and cost effective voice and data backhaul for 2G, 3G, and 4G/LTE networks over satellite. This enables mobile operators to extend network coverage to rural and remote areas in a secure and bandwidth efficient manner.
Alcatel Lucent: The LTW Necessity – Ensuring high performance indoor experien...Small Cell Forum
The document discusses the need for LTE in homes and enterprises to improve coverage, quality of service, and facilitate the transition to 4G. It introduces Alcatel-Lucent's 9961 multi-standard home cell and 9962 multi-standard enterprise cell series, which support both 3G and 4G using a single system-on-chip. It also describes new features like LTE-U/LAA, Wi-Fi boost, and their combination to enhance performance by blending Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity.
Jio is deploying a heterogeneous network (HetNet) using a combination of macro cells, small cells, and WiFi access points to efficiently utilize its spectrum assets across multiple bands. Self-organizing network (SON) technology is being implemented to automate the configuration, optimization, and management of this complex network. SON allows for seamless integration of new network elements, continuous monitoring and proactive issue resolution, and real-time optimization of radio resources to improve network performance and enhance the customer experience. Initial results with SON have shown improvements in capacity, throughput, user distribution, handover success rates, and a more efficient small cell deployment process.
ThinkSmallCell Analyst Spotlight Webinar Dec 2014David Chambers
Leading Small Cell Industry Analysts Caroline Gabriel and Joe Madden present their latest Small Cell 5 year forecasts, together with their underlying assumptions. Everyone agrees we need more cells but their remains uncertainty about which form/architecture they will take. A Q&A session delves further into the topic, exploring many of the significant factors affecting the numbers.
The document provides summaries of several small cell deployment case studies:
1. iBwave's planning tools reduced site visits for a 7-floor building to 2 hours.
2. Verizon used SpiderCloud small cells to meet high demand for VoLTE and video at a call center.
3. Huawei and Vivo deployed small cells at bus stops in Rio to improve mobile broadband experiences.
SpiderCloud Wireless Scaling Small Cells indoorsSmall Cell Forum
This document discusses SpiderCloud Wireless and their scalable small cell systems. Some key points:
- SpiderCloud sells small cell systems for mobile operators to address enterprises and venues, providing coverage, capacity, and managed mobility services.
- Their system uses a services node and radio nodes that can scale to cover up to 1.5 million square feet using just one services node and 100 radio nodes.
- A case study shows their system successfully provided wireless service in a 140,000 square foot call center with 500 users per area, supporting high data usage including VoLTE and video.
Small cells: Delivering densification for 5G (3GPP RAN 5G Workshop) Small Cell Forum
The Small Cell Forum works with mobile operators and technology providers to accelerate the commercial deployment of small cells. They have developed recommendations to address barriers to widespread adoption, including interface standards for virtualized small cells, multi-operator neutral host architectures, and APIs/services frameworks. For 5G, the Small Cell Forum recommends flexible options for multi-vendor access virtualization over different transport networks, architecting support for multi-operator/neutral host models, and evolving their established API/services framework.
This presentation was shared at the recent Release workshop in London, June 2014. It scopes out the potential areas for inclusion in the Small Cell Forum's fifth release: Rural & Remote.
Starship (Medium) Enterprise, To Boldly Cover Where No One Has Covered BeforeSmall Cell Forum
This document discusses Cel-Fi and their smart signal booster products. Cel-Fi is a global leader in smart signal boosters founded in 2006. They have four core product lines and 170+ mobile network operator customers in over 84 countries. Their products are designed to boost cellular signals for indoor spaces ranging from 100-10,000 square meters, providing coverage and capacity without interference. Their solutions integrate with IT systems and networks for remote management and efficient deployment.
Mavenir: Small Cells Security - Overcoming Deployment ChallengesSmall Cell Forum
This document discusses security challenges with small cell deployments as mobile networks expand. It notes that the threat landscape is growing as attacks increase in size and frequency. To address this, a security gateway is needed at the RAN-Core border to provide strong authentication, encryption, and traffic management capabilities. This is important as small cells introduce more endpoints and untrusted backhaul networks. The security gateway must be able to handle high session densities, signaling storms, and provide ease of management and provisioning for small cell operators. Mavenir's security gateway provides these capabilities to fully protect operator investments in small cell infrastructure.
Hetnet deployments are slowly increasing through targeted capacity clusters focused on indoor locations and top capacity hotspots, but infrastructure development faces challenges around transport, regulations, and asset ownership. While capacity needs continue growing, solutions are focusing on high capacity for events and locations, construction expertise, and optimizing site value through spectral efficiency and deployment cost analysis. Overall, the network is gradually becoming more ultra dense but still has progress to make to fully meet capacity demands.
HetNets and Wi-Fi Offload – Finding the appropriate venues for small cells in...Small Cell Forum
This is a presentation from Art King at the recent LTW World summit.
Art King is Director SpiderCloud Wireless, BOD Small Cell Forum (SCF) Board of Directors and Vice Chair, SCF Services Working Group
Key findings include:
- Small Cells deliver increased capacity and coverage in urban environments.
- Finding the right venue is critical to maximize the capacity advantages and cost savings for small cells.
- Leveraging and integrating HetNets delivers maximized user experience improvements.
Utilizing sdn and nfv for the small cell mobile backhauling v1Nir Halachmi
This document discusses how SDN and NFV can help address challenges with small cell mobile backhaul. It proposes utilizing SDN to provide a simple yet dynamic architecture for small cell deployments that can support multi-vendors and access technologies. Distributed NFV is presented as a way to locate virtual networking functions like routing and firewalls at the network edge. This could provide benefits like reduced costs and simplified operations. The document outlines an evolving approach where the SDN controller manages both macro cells and small cell backhaul, and could eventually extend to other parts of the mobile network while supporting applications through an orchestrator.
Virtualizing the RAN – a Small Cell Forum UpdateSmall Cell Forum
The document discusses virtualizing the radio access network (RAN) through small cell forum updates. It identifies key business benefits of virtualization in the RAN such as centralization benefits, reduced transport costs, and elastic scaling capabilities through management and automation. The small cell forum is working to accelerate virtualization for the RAN through efforts such as defining a multi-vendor nFAPI interface and driving virtualization learnings into 5G evolution. Virtualization is seen as able to deliver a phased roadmap aligned with longer term 5G directions.
Medium-Large Enterprise Small Cell Deployment Case StudiesSmall Cell Forum
This document discusses case studies of medium to large enterprise small cell deployments using SpiderCloud's scalable small cell systems. It summarizes a deployment at a 140,000 square foot call center with 500 SIMs and unlimited data plans, where SpiderCloud's system provided excellent indoor coverage and capacity while using minimal power and space. It also mentions other nationwide and multi-site deployment case studies where SpiderCloud's design tools provided time and cost savings.
Haig Sarkissian: The Economic Impact of Femtocells on the 4G LTE Business CaseSmall Cell Forum
Femtocells can provide coverage and capacity for 4G LTE networks by functioning as very small cells deployed in large numbers. A case study of deploying femtocells in New York City found they could reduce total capital expenditures by 63% and network operating expenses by 45%, lowering the total cost of ownership by 58% over 10 years compared to a network using just macrocells and microcells. While femtocells provide significant cost savings, deploying the hundreds of thousands needed requires addressing challenges around network management and consumer adoption.
The document discusses the state of small cells and Wi-Fi networks. It notes that while Wi-Fi is widely used for residential and enterprise networks, carrier Wi-Fi revenues are less than 0.1% of cellular revenues. To increase mobile network capacity, carriers are turning to small cells using LTE and some are also implementing 3G/4G multi-mode indoor small cells first before relying solely on VoLTE. There is a growing focus on deploying small cells within enterprises by sharing costs with building owners, and the potential role of neutral host business models.
Extreme non-uniformity of cellular networks – the answer: Small CellsSmall Cell Forum
Extreme non-uniformity in cellular networks means that usage varies greatly by location, time, subscribers and services. As networks approach theoretical capacity limits, small cells are needed to meet demand. Precise small cell placement is required based on key performance indicators and hotspot identification criteria in order to improve quality of experience.
Simpler & Faster Deployment of Small Cell Networks 2Small Cell Forum
This document discusses using Huawei's LampSite small cell solution and iBwave planning tools to simplify and accelerate small cell network deployment. It provides two case studies of LampSite deployments - at a stadium in Belarus supporting 15,000 spectators and at a hotel in Singapore - where iBwave tools helped reduce design time by 30 hours and 16 hours respectively. The document also outlines iBwave's end-to-end workflow for small cell planning, including field surveys, design, maintenance, and training to achieve accurate designs and lower total cost of ownership.
This document discusses how small cells and 5G can support the Internet of Things (IoT). It notes that IoT is a focus for the Small Cell Forum because enterprise networks are a major market for small cells and small cell solutions can help address many IoT challenges. The document outlines several IoT use cases for industry/manufacturing, connected cars, and healthcare that could benefit from small cell connectivity. It argues that small cells can provide the high reliability, low latency, security, location services, and support for diverse service types that IoT applications require. The document also discusses how small cells will be important to achieving the performance goals of 5G like high throughput, low latency, and ultra-dense networks.
Scaling small cell deployment - Why current tools are inadequateDavid Chambers
As service providers plan large scale rollout of public access small cells, many operators believe that existing planning and workflow tools are simply not enough to meet the needs of complex backhaul design, rapid implementation and change management.
These slides are from a webinar where Amdocs describes their unique ‘catalog driven’ approach to process automation which cuts the time and cost for small cell network rollout.
Overcoming urban small cell deployment challengesCCS
This document discusses challenges with urban small cell deployment and proposes solutions. Key barriers are site acquisition, suitable backhaul, and single-operator deployments. It suggests a self-organizing microwave backhaul system as suitable backhaul that is easy to deploy, scalable, and operates in widely available licensed spectrum. A neutral host model is also proposed to reduce costs and time-to-market by providing equal access to shared street infrastructure and pooled licensed spectrum for multiple operators.
Jio is deploying a heterogeneous network (HetNet) using a combination of macro cells, small cells, and WiFi access points to efficiently utilize its spectrum assets across multiple bands. Self-organizing network (SON) technology is being implemented to automate the configuration, optimization, and management of this complex network. SON allows for seamless integration of new network elements, continuous monitoring and proactive issue resolution, and real-time optimization of radio resources to improve network performance and enhance the customer experience. Initial results with SON have shown improvements in capacity, throughput, user distribution, handover success rates, and a more efficient small cell deployment process.
ThinkSmallCell Analyst Spotlight Webinar Dec 2014David Chambers
Leading Small Cell Industry Analysts Caroline Gabriel and Joe Madden present their latest Small Cell 5 year forecasts, together with their underlying assumptions. Everyone agrees we need more cells but their remains uncertainty about which form/architecture they will take. A Q&A session delves further into the topic, exploring many of the significant factors affecting the numbers.
The document provides summaries of several small cell deployment case studies:
1. iBwave's planning tools reduced site visits for a 7-floor building to 2 hours.
2. Verizon used SpiderCloud small cells to meet high demand for VoLTE and video at a call center.
3. Huawei and Vivo deployed small cells at bus stops in Rio to improve mobile broadband experiences.
SpiderCloud Wireless Scaling Small Cells indoorsSmall Cell Forum
This document discusses SpiderCloud Wireless and their scalable small cell systems. Some key points:
- SpiderCloud sells small cell systems for mobile operators to address enterprises and venues, providing coverage, capacity, and managed mobility services.
- Their system uses a services node and radio nodes that can scale to cover up to 1.5 million square feet using just one services node and 100 radio nodes.
- A case study shows their system successfully provided wireless service in a 140,000 square foot call center with 500 users per area, supporting high data usage including VoLTE and video.
Small cells: Delivering densification for 5G (3GPP RAN 5G Workshop) Small Cell Forum
The Small Cell Forum works with mobile operators and technology providers to accelerate the commercial deployment of small cells. They have developed recommendations to address barriers to widespread adoption, including interface standards for virtualized small cells, multi-operator neutral host architectures, and APIs/services frameworks. For 5G, the Small Cell Forum recommends flexible options for multi-vendor access virtualization over different transport networks, architecting support for multi-operator/neutral host models, and evolving their established API/services framework.
This presentation was shared at the recent Release workshop in London, June 2014. It scopes out the potential areas for inclusion in the Small Cell Forum's fifth release: Rural & Remote.
Starship (Medium) Enterprise, To Boldly Cover Where No One Has Covered BeforeSmall Cell Forum
This document discusses Cel-Fi and their smart signal booster products. Cel-Fi is a global leader in smart signal boosters founded in 2006. They have four core product lines and 170+ mobile network operator customers in over 84 countries. Their products are designed to boost cellular signals for indoor spaces ranging from 100-10,000 square meters, providing coverage and capacity without interference. Their solutions integrate with IT systems and networks for remote management and efficient deployment.
Mavenir: Small Cells Security - Overcoming Deployment ChallengesSmall Cell Forum
This document discusses security challenges with small cell deployments as mobile networks expand. It notes that the threat landscape is growing as attacks increase in size and frequency. To address this, a security gateway is needed at the RAN-Core border to provide strong authentication, encryption, and traffic management capabilities. This is important as small cells introduce more endpoints and untrusted backhaul networks. The security gateway must be able to handle high session densities, signaling storms, and provide ease of management and provisioning for small cell operators. Mavenir's security gateway provides these capabilities to fully protect operator investments in small cell infrastructure.
Hetnet deployments are slowly increasing through targeted capacity clusters focused on indoor locations and top capacity hotspots, but infrastructure development faces challenges around transport, regulations, and asset ownership. While capacity needs continue growing, solutions are focusing on high capacity for events and locations, construction expertise, and optimizing site value through spectral efficiency and deployment cost analysis. Overall, the network is gradually becoming more ultra dense but still has progress to make to fully meet capacity demands.
HetNets and Wi-Fi Offload – Finding the appropriate venues for small cells in...Small Cell Forum
This is a presentation from Art King at the recent LTW World summit.
Art King is Director SpiderCloud Wireless, BOD Small Cell Forum (SCF) Board of Directors and Vice Chair, SCF Services Working Group
Key findings include:
- Small Cells deliver increased capacity and coverage in urban environments.
- Finding the right venue is critical to maximize the capacity advantages and cost savings for small cells.
- Leveraging and integrating HetNets delivers maximized user experience improvements.
Utilizing sdn and nfv for the small cell mobile backhauling v1Nir Halachmi
This document discusses how SDN and NFV can help address challenges with small cell mobile backhaul. It proposes utilizing SDN to provide a simple yet dynamic architecture for small cell deployments that can support multi-vendors and access technologies. Distributed NFV is presented as a way to locate virtual networking functions like routing and firewalls at the network edge. This could provide benefits like reduced costs and simplified operations. The document outlines an evolving approach where the SDN controller manages both macro cells and small cell backhaul, and could eventually extend to other parts of the mobile network while supporting applications through an orchestrator.
Virtualizing the RAN – a Small Cell Forum UpdateSmall Cell Forum
The document discusses virtualizing the radio access network (RAN) through small cell forum updates. It identifies key business benefits of virtualization in the RAN such as centralization benefits, reduced transport costs, and elastic scaling capabilities through management and automation. The small cell forum is working to accelerate virtualization for the RAN through efforts such as defining a multi-vendor nFAPI interface and driving virtualization learnings into 5G evolution. Virtualization is seen as able to deliver a phased roadmap aligned with longer term 5G directions.
Medium-Large Enterprise Small Cell Deployment Case StudiesSmall Cell Forum
This document discusses case studies of medium to large enterprise small cell deployments using SpiderCloud's scalable small cell systems. It summarizes a deployment at a 140,000 square foot call center with 500 SIMs and unlimited data plans, where SpiderCloud's system provided excellent indoor coverage and capacity while using minimal power and space. It also mentions other nationwide and multi-site deployment case studies where SpiderCloud's design tools provided time and cost savings.
Haig Sarkissian: The Economic Impact of Femtocells on the 4G LTE Business CaseSmall Cell Forum
Femtocells can provide coverage and capacity for 4G LTE networks by functioning as very small cells deployed in large numbers. A case study of deploying femtocells in New York City found they could reduce total capital expenditures by 63% and network operating expenses by 45%, lowering the total cost of ownership by 58% over 10 years compared to a network using just macrocells and microcells. While femtocells provide significant cost savings, deploying the hundreds of thousands needed requires addressing challenges around network management and consumer adoption.
The document discusses the state of small cells and Wi-Fi networks. It notes that while Wi-Fi is widely used for residential and enterprise networks, carrier Wi-Fi revenues are less than 0.1% of cellular revenues. To increase mobile network capacity, carriers are turning to small cells using LTE and some are also implementing 3G/4G multi-mode indoor small cells first before relying solely on VoLTE. There is a growing focus on deploying small cells within enterprises by sharing costs with building owners, and the potential role of neutral host business models.
Extreme non-uniformity of cellular networks – the answer: Small CellsSmall Cell Forum
Extreme non-uniformity in cellular networks means that usage varies greatly by location, time, subscribers and services. As networks approach theoretical capacity limits, small cells are needed to meet demand. Precise small cell placement is required based on key performance indicators and hotspot identification criteria in order to improve quality of experience.
Simpler & Faster Deployment of Small Cell Networks 2Small Cell Forum
This document discusses using Huawei's LampSite small cell solution and iBwave planning tools to simplify and accelerate small cell network deployment. It provides two case studies of LampSite deployments - at a stadium in Belarus supporting 15,000 spectators and at a hotel in Singapore - where iBwave tools helped reduce design time by 30 hours and 16 hours respectively. The document also outlines iBwave's end-to-end workflow for small cell planning, including field surveys, design, maintenance, and training to achieve accurate designs and lower total cost of ownership.
This document discusses how small cells and 5G can support the Internet of Things (IoT). It notes that IoT is a focus for the Small Cell Forum because enterprise networks are a major market for small cells and small cell solutions can help address many IoT challenges. The document outlines several IoT use cases for industry/manufacturing, connected cars, and healthcare that could benefit from small cell connectivity. It argues that small cells can provide the high reliability, low latency, security, location services, and support for diverse service types that IoT applications require. The document also discusses how small cells will be important to achieving the performance goals of 5G like high throughput, low latency, and ultra-dense networks.
Scaling small cell deployment - Why current tools are inadequateDavid Chambers
As service providers plan large scale rollout of public access small cells, many operators believe that existing planning and workflow tools are simply not enough to meet the needs of complex backhaul design, rapid implementation and change management.
These slides are from a webinar where Amdocs describes their unique ‘catalog driven’ approach to process automation which cuts the time and cost for small cell network rollout.
Overcoming urban small cell deployment challengesCCS
This document discusses challenges with urban small cell deployment and proposes solutions. Key barriers are site acquisition, suitable backhaul, and single-operator deployments. It suggests a self-organizing microwave backhaul system as suitable backhaul that is easy to deploy, scalable, and operates in widely available licensed spectrum. A neutral host model is also proposed to reduce costs and time-to-market by providing equal access to shared street infrastructure and pooled licensed spectrum for multiple operators.
This document discusses recent developments in the small cell industry and provides an overview of the Small Cell Forum's work program for 2016. Key points include:
- Small cell shipments increased significantly in 2015 and the market is accelerating, with small cells expected to outnumber macrocells 7 to 1 by 2020.
- The Small Cell Forum's work program aims to support new architectures, spectrum options, business cases, services, and use cases to enable broader ecosystem innovation.
- A focus area is small cell virtualization to enable new deployment models and support the evolution to 5G networks. Interoperability across vendors will be important.
- Other work focuses on multi-operator support, license-exempt spectrum,
AT&T: HetNet – Small Cell Placement and the resulting performanceSmall Cell Forum
The document discusses small cell deployment and heterogeneous network (HetNet) performance. It describes how optimal small cell placements can improve metrics like physical resource block (PRB) cost per megabyte by addressing traffic hot spots with high PRB costs. Charts show the average PRB cost is 19% lower with a HetNet compared to a macro-only network. The document also examines factors that affect HetNet performance indoors and in suburban clusters.
Small Cells World Summit 2014 keynote: Sue Monahan CEO Small Cell ForumSmall Cell Forum
London, UK, 10 June 2014. The Small Cell Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports small cell deployment worldwide, announced the launch of Release Four to help operators open up opportunities and overcome the barriers associated with urban small cells. This is the keynote speech from the launch event at Small Cells World Summit #SCWS2014
Three leading industry analysts explain their femtocell and small cell forecasts, stating their assumptions and debating why they differ so much.
Hear what they have to say:
Dimitris Mavrakis, Informa Telecoms and Media
Joe Madden, Mobile Experts
Caroline Gabriel, Rethink Research
An introduction to Wireless Small Cell NetworksMehdi Bennis
This document provides an introduction to small cell networks. It outlines that small cell networks are a necessary paradigm shift to meet increasing demand for mobile data by making cells smaller, denser, and smarter. Small cell networks include femtocells, picocells, relays, and device-to-device communications, which can operate with heterogeneous backhaul and be either closed, open, or hybrid access. Standardization efforts aim to enable interoperability, and self-organizing capabilities are important to maintain low costs as small cell density increases.
Hotspot 2.0 is a new approach that aims to make Wi-Fi networks as easy to use as cellular networks. It includes technologies like 802.11u for network discovery and selection, WPA2-Enterprise for secure authentication using credentials like SIM cards, and EAP methods. This would allow mobile users to seamlessly connect to Wi-Fi networks without manual login. However, challenges remain such as replacing existing access points that do not support the new standards and ensuring good customer experience given potential interference issues.
LTE uses symmetric key cryptography with algorithms like AES and Snow 3G for encryption and integrity protection. During attachment, the UE and MME perform mutual authentication using the AKA protocol and derive session keys from which encryption and integrity keys are obtained for NAS and AS security. The UE and eNB then negotiate the specific algorithms to use for ciphering and integrity protection of signaling and user data.
NetMotion Wireless provides a software-only mobile VPN solution called NetMotion Mobility that addresses challenges of productivity, security, and management for mobile field workers. It eliminates issues caused by disconnected networks, ensures security across any network, and provides application-level visibility and control. Customers like Cox Communications, Birmingham City Council, US Foods, and Allina Home Care & EMR saw increases in productivity, reductions in support calls, ability to keep application sessions alive during disconnects, and centralized management of remote devices and policies.
Fibre channel is on the rise, and the data center transformation is upon us! Join Brocade's Technical Development Manager, Mike Naylor as he explains how Brocade Gen5 Fabric can simplify your network infrastructure, reduce costs and maximize uptime.
Unleash the power, intelligence, and analytics of your networks with a flexib...Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise enables customers to move to SDN at their own pace with a practical SDN solution.
http://enterprise.alcatel-lucent.com/?solution=DataCenter&page=overview
PDF Transforming Your Infrastructure into a Utility-Grade NetworkGraybar
Is your network ready and are you prepared for the Internet of Everything? The demands of the network are changing and changing very fast. A robust network infrastructure is critical as we enter this new era of “all things connected."
This G2 Talk webinar will help you understand the challenges that are ahead of you and outline a migration path to a utility-grade infrastructure to support the network of the future.
Het nets up close - Webinar with ThinkSmallCell and IXIADavid Chambers
Slides from joint webinar by ThinkSmallCell and IXIA outlining the progress towards HetNets using Small Cells and the solution testing scenarios and capabilities required
3 hours course on IEEE and IETF protocols introducing the 6TiSCH architecture and the RPL routing protocol. Course given at telecom Bretagne on Feb 12th 2014
INOC - Art Meierdirk Presentation from UTC April 15, 2014 Ilissa Miller
This document discusses utilities modernizing their infrastructure through advanced technologies and telecommunications networks. It covers:
1) Drivers for utilities to adopt advanced technologies like smart metering, distribution automation, and enterprise communications to empower customers, improve reliability and operations, and enable new technologies.
2) How utilities' telecommunications needs have outgrown traditional networks due to new applications and increased cybersecurity requirements, requiring them to create roadmaps balancing different network tiers.
3) Lessons learned from Sun Prairie Utilities' experience launching a fiber WAN and fixed wireless network initially before expanding to a fiber network, including the importance of partnerships, scalability, and customer service.
Operators strategy for supporting the ‘Mobile Data Explosion’eXplanoTech
The document discusses strategies that mobile operators can use to support increasing mobile data usage. It outlines several approaches operators are taking, including deploying small cells to increase network capacity, leveraging WiFi networks to offload traffic, and using new 3GPP standards and technologies like carrier aggregation and dynamic spectrum management. The document also provides a case study of how one US operator has evolved its network from 1947 to the present day to support growing demand.
MetroXTM provides long-haul InfiniBand solutions to connect data centers over distances of 1km to 80km. This allows organizations to build mega clouds and datacenters across multiple physical sites while maintaining high-speed, low latency connectivity. MetroXTM offers advantages for disaster recovery and business continuity by enabling active-active data centers with 40Gb/s bandwidth and simple management. It is a cost-effective solution with a small footprint that is well-suited to the needs of high performance computing and large mega data centers.
The document discusses the integration of Wi-Fi and 3GPP networks in heterogeneous networks. It forecasts strong growth in mobile data usage and adoption of small cells. It outlines challenges around deployment, interference, and handoffs in heterogeneous networks. It proposes strategies like self-optimizing networks and dedicated small cell spectrum. The document advocates for seamless integration of Wi-Fi and 3GPP through intelligent radio access selection and traffic steering.
The document discusses the integration of Wi-Fi and 3GPP networks in heterogeneous networks. It forecasts strong growth in mobile data usage and adoption of small cells. It outlines challenges around deployment, interference, and handoffs in heterogeneous networks. It proposes strategies like self-optimizing networks and dedicating spectrum for small cells. The document advocates integrating Wi-Fi and 3GPP through seamless handovers, traffic steering based on network conditions, and end-to-end integration from the core network to individual cells.
This document discusses Verizon's managed SD WAN solution with Cisco IWAN. It outlines the business benefits of SD WAN such as centralized management, reduced complexity, and improved application performance. It then describes the technical challenges of adopting SD WAN including security, tunneling exceptions, QoS standards, and wireless requirements. The document provides deployment guidelines and examples use cases for SD WAN including a retail bank, cloud services company, and financial services franchise network. It positions Verizon as an IT partner that can help customers automate operations and focus on business results through its managed SD WAN service.
AIS is a leading data center and cloud services provider that offers tailored infrastructure solutions including cloud, colocation, networking, disaster recovery, security and storage. It has been in business since 1989 and operates data centers in San Diego and Phoenix. AIS aims to enable clients to focus on their core business by providing scalable, compliant and innovative IT infrastructure solutions. It has a diversified customer base of over 500 organizations and is led by an experienced management team with deep industry expertise.
Openflow for Mobile Broadband service providers_Nov'11Radhakant Das
This is an analysis done on status of Open flow as on 2011 . It has many reasons to be embraced. SDNA architecture under cloud orchestration demands OPENFLOW to come live soon in commercial networks.
The CoreSite Interconnect Gateway™ (CIG) solution was created with optimal performance and cost efficiency in mind. CIG allows you to hit the “easy button” to rapidly enhance your network performance. This fully managed solution creates secure, high-bandwidth direct connectivity to leading public clouds, network service providers, data centers, and corporate offices to improve application performance and reduce network costs. Traffic is efficiently routed between vendors through router, firewall and WAN acceleration services on the platform.
This document discusses well monitoring systems using advanced data communication technology. It covers the importance of well monitoring for operational insights, safety, asset integrity and cost efficiency. It also discusses challenges with traditional monitoring methods. The document then provides an overview of data communication components and types, including transmission medium, computer networks, protocols and wireless technologies. It describes a communication system using high-speed data transmission, secure encryption and redundant channels for remote well monitoring and control.
The document discusses the future of mobile networks known as HetNets and the increasing role of small cells. It notes that small cell deployments are growing rapidly, with over 1 million cells deployed by some major operators. Small cells provide benefits like improved coverage, greater capacity and spectrum efficiency. The document also discusses network considerations for HetNets including interference management and backhaul options. It examines usage scenarios for small cells like in homes, enterprises, rural networks and integrated with Wi-Fi.
Visualizing Application & Delivery Flows to Make Data-Driven DecisionsCA Technologies
Even the most intelligent network needs management to visualize application traffic flows at the network level and know how well application service levels are being met. The CA Application Performance Management solution leverages key performance indicators from Cisco’s Intelligent WAN solutions, which add value to your network through application visibility and control, application acceleration (WAN optimization) and intelligent path selection. By enabling you to gain visibility into application performance from a network perspective, you can make proactive, data-driven decisions regarding network capacity, QoS policies, infrastructure investments and planned application rollouts.
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The document summarizes GE's Bently Nevada Essential Insight.mesh wireless condition monitoring solution. The solution uses wireless sensors and a mesh network to remotely monitor assets throughout a plant, providing more frequent data than walkaround monitoring. It allows plants to cost-effectively monitor previously unmonitored balance-of-plant assets to improve reliability. The wireless sensors communicate through repeaters and a gateway to GE's System 1 software for asset monitoring and maintenance.
Sue Monahan presented this deck as part of her interview with Telesamana. It details the work that SCF is committed to for 2018 in order to accelerate densification worldwide.
American Tower is the largest wireless infrastructure company in the US. It has nearly 150,000 communication sites worldwide and over 100,000 points of presence for the top four US carriers. The document discusses American Tower's capabilities in designing, building, operating and managing wireless infrastructure solutions for enterprises. This includes providing in-building wireless networks through technologies like oDAS, iDAS and SmartPoles to address connectivity issues within buildings and venues facing capacity constraints. American Tower offers benefits like being a single point of contact and aligning its goals with property owners to help carriers and property owners meet their wireless needs.
Parallel Wireless - Making carrier-grade cellular network deployments as easy...Small Cell Forum
Our presence at #MWC18 is being supported by industry innovators Parallel Wireless. Find out more about how this innovative company is reimagining the cellular infrastructure and building solutions that will enable and accelerate the transition from today’s 2G/3G/4G networks to tomorrow’s 5G networks.
At SCWS in San Jose December 2017, SCF Chair David Orloff shared the SCF vision for the 5G Era along with some key findings from our latest operator research.
The Small Cell Forum is hosting a space at Mobile World Congress 2018 to promote small cells and provide a base for leadership meetings. They offer various sponsorship packages for companies to be involved, ranging from £2,000 to £7,000. The most expensive full sponsor package includes branding on the stand, online promotions, event support and passes. Smaller packages are also available for £2,000 that include social media promotion and stand visibility. Additionally, a £5,000 report sponsorship allows companies to be featured in a post-event report through an interview, case study and branding.
The document summarizes the winners of the Small Cell Forum's 2017 awards for innovation in small cell technology. The winners included Open-nFAPI for an open source project accelerating virtualized small cell architecture, SK Telecom for LTE-LAA and functional split innovations, SpiderCloud Wireless and LA Airport for a small cell deployment outperforming legacy DAS, JCDecaux for a multi small cell urban solution, Nokia and China Mobile for dense small cell hetnets, Parallel Wireless and Gilat for connecting remote areas in Australia with satellite backhaul, Nokia for high-power small cells, Parallel Wireless for virtualized RAN and 5G hetnet management, Vodafone for in-band small cell back
This document discusses Ericsson's invisible site solutions for mobile networks. It describes various form factors like wall/pole mounts that integrate radios and basebands into single modules. Micro radio sectors and lightpole sites are presented as highly flexible options. Underground vault radios and use of existing infrastructure like advertising panels and bus stops are highlighted as ways to deploy networks with minimal visual impact.
Maximising ROI and User Experience with Outdoor Small Cells: AirspanSmall Cell Forum
This document discusses how outdoor small cells from Airspan can maximize ROI and user experience. It provides examples showing how Airspan's small cell solutions can improve spectral efficiency over traditional macro deployments, increase throughput both downlink and uplink, and decongest macro networks by moving cell edge customers to small cells. A case study found that deploying Airspan small cells provided better coverage than TDD macro infill sites while improving capacity over 40% and saving over 80% on CAPEX in a dense urban area. In conclusion, the document discusses how Airspan's solutions can maximize spectrum assets, revolutionize total cost of ownership, and increase efficiency of existing macro networks.
This document discusses urban densification through the use of small cells. It provides context on what urban small cells are, then lists key drivers for their deployment like increasing capacity and supporting new services. Data shows annual deployments are expected to grow significantly through 2022, especially in Asia. However, barriers like site availability, approval processes, and backhaul costs still exist. The Small Cell Forum has worked to address these barriers by developing best practices, deployment guidelines, case studies, and collaborating with other groups to promote small cell adoption. Looking ahead, they aim to deepen collaborations, explore new spectrum opportunities, and engage more with smart city initiatives.
Small Cell Mass Deployment, What is Really Needed? Node-HSmall Cell Forum
Node-H is a leading provider of small cell solutions, with the world's largest small cell deployments across multiple countries. They offer turn-key software solutions for enterprise, residential, and dual-mode small cells compatible with LTE and UMTS networks. Their solutions provide complete radio resource and self-organizing network functionality as well as integrated management and timing/synchronization. Node-H small cells are designed to be cheap, robust, and flexible to deploy, with a roadmap that includes support for new technologies such as LAA, CBRS, and IoT.
How Small Cells Resolve the Design Challenges in a Dense Venue: iBwave Small Cell Forum
The document discusses how Reliance Jio, an Indian telecommunications company, uses iBwave software to design small cell networks for dense indoor venues like hotels in order to meet connectivity and customer experience goals, providing a case study of how iBwave was used to design a network for a 600,000 square foot hotel property with 437 rooms in just 3 days compared to an estimated 10 days without the software.
American Tower: In-building Wireless ConnectivitySmall Cell Forum
This document discusses in-building wireless connectivity solutions provided by American Tower Corporation. It notes that American Tower has over 40,000 wireless towers, 15,000 rooftop rights, and operates 370 distributed antenna system networks across the US. The document then provides an overview of a potential small cell solution using Ericsson Radio DOT technology for a residential and hotel tower development, with one small cell installed per wireless carrier on each floor to provide shared infrastructure.
The document summarizes discussions from the Mumbai Densification Summit in October 2017 regarding enterprise small cell deployments. It provides an overview of the Small Cell Forum's Enterprise and Business Innovation Working Group activities, including case studies on mass deployment needs, designing dense venues, and covering high-rise residential areas. It also outlines the working group's goals of developing new business models to accelerate enterprise adoption of small cells by addressing challenges around cost, multi-operator support, and network management.
Parallel Wireless provides the world's only fully orchestrated multi-technology 2G/3G/4G network solution. They aim to make cellular deployments as easy and cost-effective as Wi-Fi. Their Converged Wireless System uses the smallest and most power-efficient base stations that are self-configuring and optimizing when orchestrated by their HetNet Gateway. Case studies in Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Canada and emergency response scenarios demonstrate how their solution can cost-effectively deliver connectivity to rural and remote areas.
OpenCellular aims to democratize access to connectivity in rural areas where nearly half of people lack coverage. Their approach involves open source, open ecosystem networks with low-cost, low-power base stations that can be locally manufactured. Key elements are cell sites optimized for rural areas with smaller cells, lower power usage, and simplified installation that reduces total cost of ownership compared to traditional networks. The goal is to make connectivity more affordable and accessible for rural and remote communities around the world.
SCF Small Cells for Rural and Remote IntroductionSmall Cell Forum
53% of the world's population is still offline, with many living in remote areas without basic infrastructure like electricity or transport. To address this, the ITU aims to connect 60% of the world by 2020. However, connecting rural and remote populations at low cost remains a key challenge. In India, 67% of the population lives rurally, with lower mobile penetration of 57% compared to 167% in urban areas, representing a major growth opportunity. While increased smartphone access has brought more Indians online, consumer goods companies have seen reduced sales as people spend more on phones than products. Small cell solutions can help connect rural and remote populations by providing localized network functions and leveraging various deployment architectures, backhaul solutions, and business cases
This document discusses Ciena's Multi-Domain Service Orchestration (MDSO) platform, which provides orchestration across multiple domains including WAN, SD-WAN, NFV, cloud, and more. The MDSO is infrastructure-agnostic and uses open APIs to reduce vendor lock-in while automating service delivery. It allows for modular and extensible onboarding of virtual and physical network functions from multiple vendors to provide end-to-end control and programmability. Real-world use cases demonstrate how the MDSO has helped customers quickly provision new services and reduce costs through automation.
The document discusses Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), which extends cloud computing capabilities to the edge of the network. MEC provides ultra-low latency and high bandwidth connectivity. It enables new applications like augmented reality, connected vehicles, and IoT analytics. MEC deployments can be flexible and scalable to different locations. The document outlines several example MEC applications including edge video orchestration, video analytics, augmented reality, and supporting connected vehicles. It also discusses the ETSI MEC phase 1 work focusing on application enablement and APIs.
The document discusses edge computing, which involves processing data and applications at the edge of the network rather than solely in centralized data centers. Edge computing provides benefits like ultra-low latency and improved quality of experience by enabling processing closer to end users and data sources. It is seen as key to enabling new applications that require real-time access and context awareness. The document provides examples of edge computing deployments in areas like healthcare to support applications like secure communications and automated patient registration in a hospital network.
Radisys Virtualized RAN using the Mobile-CORD platformSmall Cell Forum
The document discusses Radisys' virtualized RAN solution using the Mobile-CORD platform. It provides an overview of the lab setup used including Intel FlexRAN, Radisys EPC, and third party RRH. Features like single cell operation, carrier aggregation, and 4x4 MIMO are supported. The solution deploys the virtualized RAN functions on the M-CORD platform using Radisys DCEngine hardware. Next steps include integrating with ONAP/ECOMP and demonstrating use cases like mobile core network CO as datacenter and eNodeB local breakout.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
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Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
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zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.