WiFi & Small Cells event 2013 held in Boston……

In an age where both mobile data and customer expectations continue to rise, the importance of addressing carrier network capacity and coverage issues is more critical than ever. WiFi has experienced its own unique renaissance as the unlicensed spectrum technology of choice, providing carriers with a myriad of opportunities and challenges. On the licensed spectrum side, interest in small cell technology has risen enormously in the last 12 months, and with investment and development continuing to grow, there is no doubt that small cells are here to stay. Offload and guaranteed QoS & QoE continue to be the primary motivators for carriers to examine the potential of both WiFi and Small Cells, and although both can achieve a similar aim, each comes with its own set of unique challenges and opportunities.

The inaugural Wifi and Small Cells North America event attracted 200 + attendees when it took place in Boston last month on April 24-25. These two co-located events provided carriers with a focused and distinctive opportunity to learn from and network with all the leading industry decision makers. Whether their expertise and interests lie with Small Cells, WiFi or both, the focused individual content and shared exhibition and networking space presented a fantastic opportunity to hear from the best in the business and form valuable new relationships.

bnetTV speaks with Brad Gannon of Hetnets at the 2013 WiFi & Small Cells event held in Boston.

Towerstream is a leading wireless service provider utilizing 4G Technology to deliver advanced, high-speed Internet access to businesses in 13 markets including New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, Miami, Seattle, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Philadelphia, Nashville, Las Vegas/Reno, and the greater Providence area where the Company is based.

Towerstream delivers a reliable last mile solution. Unlike other Internet service providers, Towerstream owns their entire network and is not dependent on the local exchange carrier network of phone wires or cable offering a faster installation seamlessly and securely for less money.

With Towerstream's guaranteed 99.99% uptime, we enable IT Managers to put what was once their top business concern at the bottom of their list.

bnetTV speaks with Rahul Iyer of Ixia at the 2013 WiFi & Small Cells event held in Boston.

Ixia provides the industry's most comprehensive converged IP network validation and network visibility solutions. Equipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises, and government agencies use Ixia's solutions to design, verify, and monitor a broad range of wired, Wi-Fi, and 3G/LTE equipment and networks. Ixia's test solutions emulate realistic media-rich traffic and network conditions so that customers can optimize and validate the design, performance, and security of their pre-deployment networks. Ixia's intelligent network visibility platforms provide clarity into physical and virtual production networks for improved performance, security, resiliency, and application delivery of cloud, data center, and service provider networks. For more information, visit www.ixiacom.com.

CALABASAS, CA — May 14, 2013 —Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA) now offers a solution to validate and harden the critical infrastructures of enterprise contact centers, which continues to grow in importance during the age of social media and an always-on environment. The new Ixia Chariot Contact Center, based on the award-winning IxChariot network assessment technology, enables enterprises to proactively assess the performance, scalability and security of their IP communications infrastructures at any load. 

Poor customer service experiences can quickly turn viral and damage a company’s reputation, and untested infrastructures along with the effects of increasing targeted telephony denial of service (TDoS) attacks can lead to significant losses of loyal customers and sales. The Chariot Contact Center solution’s fast, easy-to-use testing validates the reliability of contact center networks and mitigates current infrastructure concerns. The resulting actionable insights enable an enterprise to know, not guess, how the contact center will respond during the most important customer engagement seasons and the times most vulnerable to malicious attacks.  

Traditionally, enterprise contact center managers have not had the necessary tools to actively test how their infrastructures will hold up under real-world conditions, and capacity testing was largely ignored. Sporadic testing coupled with the increasing use of TDoS attacks meant that costly downtime was inevitable. Now, with the Chariot Contact Center solution, within minutes enterprises can create a call tree of any volume and run multiple simulated scenarios to assess and validate the contact center network’s reliability. 

The powerful Ixia Chariot Contact Center solution offers an intuitive web-based user interface with drop-downs and form-fills that use common call center terms to guide users through test case creation, deployment and reporting. Providing medium to massive-scale, high-fidelity simulations of protocols and caller traffic, the solution combines the needed capabilities to: 

•  Validate IVR menus.
•  Test automatic call distributors.
•  Model contact center traffic.
•  Verify emergency call systems and robot calls.
•  Validate threat-blocking policies.
•  Measure quality of experience. 

The Ixia Chariot Contact Center solution gives enterprises the confidence that critical communications infrastructures will handle heavy call loads, route calls as expected and maintain exceptional voice quality.

“SecureLogix helps protect many contact center environments from TDoS attacks, which involve burst calls meant to flood and overwhelm corporate voice resources,” said David Heard, SecureLogix Vice President of Product Management and Marketing. “Ixia’s solutions are an important component of TDoS prevention, allowing an enterprise to stress-test its infrastructure, profile its vulnerability level to TDoS and better ensure business continuity.” 

“The enterprise contact center infrastructure is becoming more complex even as the importance of stellar customer service continues to grow. Fortunately, Ixia was able to leverage its core technology expertise to develop a solution that easily tests and assesses the quality of experience in the network to help enterprises maintain superior customer contact centers with rock-solid network infrastructures,” said Don Shin, Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Ixia. “By providing an easy-to-use way of validating critical customer service infrastructures at load, Ixia’s Chariot Contact Center solution answers a growing and important need for today’s enterprises.” 

Ixia will unveil the Chariot Contact Center solution in booth No. 239 at the premier global gathering for the contact center, ACCE 2013, taking place in Seattle, WA, May 13-15. 

About Ixia
Ixia develops amazing products so its customers can connect the world. Ixia helps its customers provide an always-on user experience through fast, secure delivery of dynamic connected technologies and services. Through actionable insights that accelerate and secure application and service delivery, Ixia’s customers benefit from faster time to market, optimized application performance and higher-quality deployments. Learn more at http://www.ixiacom.com.

bnetTV speaks with Mike Roberts of Informa Telecoms at the 2013 WiFi & Small Cells event held in Boston.

The telecoms and media community turns to us for unparalleled knowledge, insight and highly specialist skills and services.

Our ability to deliver a combination of high quality events, business-critical research and training makes our offer unique and extremely valuable to individuals and organisations.

We are part of Informa, the leading provider of business information and services with over 8,000 employees in 150 offices.

Our strategic insight, key market data and forecasts have led the market for more than 25 years. We have 65 analysts in nine research offices offering pragmatic advice to the leading global operators and builders of communications infrastructure.

Whether your focus is product marketing, product development, strategic planning or forecasting we can help you make better decisions with confidence. Find out more…

Key brands include: Intelligence Centre, World Cellular Information Service, World Broadband Information Service.

bnetTV speaks with David Nowicki of Devicescape at the 2013 WiFi & Small Cells event held in Boston.

Devicescape redefines the "always best connected" mobile experience, going beyond Wi-Fi offload to uniquely combine intelligent network selection with the world's largest Curated Virtual Network of high-quality Wi-Fi hotspots. For mobile operators, this carrier-grade service delivers an overnight, cost-effective step change in network capacity-reach that doubles customer lifetime value (CLV) through elevated customer satisfaction, powerful new data management solutions, and Wi-Fi service generation. For end users, the Devicescape solution means a curated mobile experience that features simpler access, faster speeds, and more data consumed at less cost. Devicescape's Curator Service not only curates each subscriber connection in real time but also leverages Devicescape's patented machine learning algorithms, which constantly identify and qualify Wi-Fi connections for the best fit in meeting operator-set policies and user preferences.

How we got here

We live in an increasingly ubiquitously connected world. We are surrounded by intelligent electronics that provide us with access to an ever-expanding range of services. Simplistic, single-function, standalone black boxes have been replaced with vibrant service-enabled devices that derive their value from internet-based content and applications—and from their interactions with each other. At Devicescape, we refer to this image as the devicescape, and this vision shapes our mission and fuels our passion.

Connecting the Devicescape

Of course, a connected world demands a network, and a service-enabled device needs a connection mechanism. Devicescape believes that Wi-Fi has a critical role to play in this, as a widely deployed, high-performance, low-cost technology that is ideal for mass connectivity. And so we began the company with the goal of harnessing Wi-Fi to mediate among devices, the network, and services.

History: Devices

Our history begins with devices—enabling the world’s most innovative electronics companies to create outstanding products with secure, high-performance, and easy-to-use Wi-Fi. Our products initially powered enterprise and home connectivity for hundreds of millions of handsets, PCs, game systems, and consumer and office electronics at companies like Motorola, HP, Nokia, BlackBerry, Intel, Nintendo, Samsung, NEC, and Brother. Later, as Wi-Fi migrated into public spaces, we began work on mobile connectivity using public Wi-Fi and in particular embracing the concept of intelligent network selection and an "always best connected" experience.

Curation

Originally focused on developing Wi-Fi software for a plethora of internet-enabled consumer devices, Devicescape today builds on more than a decade of experience in magnifying mobile network capabilities and elevating the mobile experience. At the heart of all this expertise in Wi-Fi, mobile, and virtualization is the Devicescape-inspired approach of curation. In the wireless network context, curation is the art of carefully discovering, qualifying, and preserving both the best network to connect to at the best time and an "über-net" of high-quality amenity Wi-Fi hotspots that take the "always best connected" user experience to the next level.

The Curated Virtual Network

Devicescape created the concept of the Curated Virtual Network. The CVN is a massive global network formed from the millions of small Wi-Fi networks already deployed in our public spaces, typically as an amenity for customers and citizens. Through our patented curation processes, we discover and constantly evaluate the capability of each network location, filtering the best down into a high-quality subset that acts as a single virtual network. The CVN leverages the best qualities of Wi-Fi—cost, ubiquity, performance—to provide a huge network with unparalleled characteristics for devices and the services they provide.

Intelligent network selection

Mobile devices are defined by their network connection. Recently, with the explosion of smartphones and tablets and with soaring demand for media-intensive services, mobile operators and other service providers have adopted a variety of strategies for managing the huge growth in data consumption. A key strategy is the integration of Wi-Fi into the overall network to help expand capacity-reach. Devicescape’s Curator Service Platform, with or without the CVN, is designed to help operators and other service providers perform intelligent network selection—to choose the best network for the task, whether it's the mobile network, their own Wi-Fi network, a partner Wi-Fi network, or the Devicescape CVN. This defines the future of Devicescape, as we continue to expand our leadership in Wi-Fi while expanding its complementary relationship with other connection methodologies.

bnetTV speaks with Edgar Figueroa of the WiFi Alliance at the 2013 WiFi & Small Cells event held in Boston.

In 1999 several visionary leaders came together to form a global non-profit organization with the goal of driving adoption of high-speed wireless local area networking. We are that organization.

Today, in every continent, one in ten people around the world use Wi-Fi at home, at work, in countless ways. Wi-Fi adoption continues to grow, and common goals still bind together more than 500 Wi-Fi Alliance member companies from dozens of countries. The original goal of the visionary leaders that formed the Wi-Fi Alliance in 1999 has been realized, and yet the Wi-Fi Alliance is not done. The innovation and thought leadership of the Wi-Fi Alliance continues to drive new Wi-Fi applications and products, and it continues to enrich our lives. Register to download the Wi-Fi Alliance 2012 Annual Report.

Wi-Fi Alliance Vision: Seamless connectivity

Wi-Fi Alliance Mission:

• Provide a highly-effective collaboration forum
• Grow the Wi-Fi industry
• Lead industry growth with new technology specifications and programs
• Support industry-agreed standards
• Deliver great product connectivity through testing and certification

bnetTV speaks with Informa Telecoms Dimitris Mavrakis at the 2013 WiFi & Smalls Cells event held in Boston.

The telecoms and media community turns to us for unparalleled knowledge, insight and highly specialist skills and services.

Our ability to deliver a combination of high quality events, business-critical research and training makes our offer unique and extremely valuable to individuals and organisations.

We are part of Informa, the leading provider of business information and services with over 8,000 employees in 150 offices.

Conferences and Exhibitions

Our 100+ annual congress and exhibitions, delivered in consultation with the industry and under-pinned by our in-house analyst & editorial expertise, are a central force in driving the industry’s agenda.

Attracted by our premium quality content, we consistently deliver a high-calibre audience of decision-makers from amongst the mobile, fixed, alternative, wholesale, MVNO, broadband and satellite operator community. Find out more…

Key brands include: Com World Series, LTE World Series, Broadband World Forum, IIR Telecoms & Technology, IP&TV World Series.

Research and Consulting

Our strategic insight, key market data and forecasts have led the market for more than 25 years. We have 65 analysts in nine research offices offering pragmatic advice to the leading global operators and builders of communications infrastructure.

Whether your focus is product marketing, product development, strategic planning or forecasting we can help you make better decisions with confidence. Find out more…

Key brands include: Intelligence Centre, World Cellular Information Service, World Broadband Information Service.

Training

Telecoms Academy offers a public portfolio of over 50 training courses that is constantly being refreshed and expanded by our team of highly accomplished telecoms training professionals. Find out more…

Our business portfolio includes intensive five-day Telecoms Mini MBA courses along with specialist telecoms marketing, leadership and commercial programmes. Our technology portfolio covers a multitude of technologies including 2G & 3G Mobile, Long Term Evolution (LTE), WiMAX, IP in Telecoms, and Applications, Content & Service Delivery . In addition we offer a series of Certificate and Diploma Distance Learning programmes.

telecoms.com

telecoms.com is the leading online source of freely available intelligence for the telecoms industry, drawing on the industry expertise of a team of journalists who average over 12 years each in the IT and communications sector.

Telecoms.com does not rely on syndicated news feeds, nor does it publish thinly disguised press releases. The daily news on the site is original and bespoke while feature content, interviews, blogs and opinion pieces are either written for the site or contributed by one of the many industry experts within Informa Telecoms & Media. Find out more…

Key brands include: Mobile Communications International, Mobile@telecoms.com, A Week in Wireless

bnetTV speaks with Yankee Group's Jennifer Pigg at the 2013 WiFi & Small Cells event held in Boston.

At Yankee Group, we are dedicated to providing our clients with the best research and actionable insights focused on the evolution of the new mobile economy. We strive to enable executives and business leaders to make better, more informed decisions today and in the future. Built on proprietary research methods and analytical models about the attitudes, behaviors and usage patterns of mobile users, our unique insights provide an end-to-end view of the revenue opportunties enabled by the mobility revolution.

Yankee Group, a division of The 451 Group, is the preeminent research and advisory firm equipping enterprises to grow revenues and profit in the mobile world. Yankee Group forecasts that the mobility revolution is a $3 trillion market opportunity and the dramatic changes brought on by this revolution will play a larger role in the lives of consumers, workers and enterprise decision-makers going forward. In response, we have made the mobile revolution our complete focus as a research and advisory services provider.

With offices in Boston and London and analysts located around the world, Yankee Group is equipped to help our clients navigate the dynamics of the new mobile economy. Our research team focuses on five key themes driving the mobile ecosystem: mobile marketing and commerce, mobile and connected devices, mobile applications and cloud, mobile broadband and mobile leadership.

In 2012, Yankee Group launched its Mobile Advisory and Planning Services (MAPS) product family, a revolutionary new research and advisory services offering that combines the company's leading market research with exclusive daily insights and weekly thematic perspectives on the hot issues driving the mobile ecosystem. Combined with a new mobile service delivery platform that provides a tablet- and desktop-based rich research user experience, this new family of services is all you need to keep up to date on the latest trends, consumer preferences and developments that are constantly reshaping mobile players, ecosystems and technologies across the globe.

bnetTV speaks with Dr. Simon Saunders of Real Wireless at the 2013 WiFi & Small Cells event held in Boston.

Real Wireless was founded in 2007 by Mark Keenan and Simon Saunders, building on their experience in industry and academia. At the heart of our offering is hands on experience of real world deployments underpinned by in-depth understanding of physics associated with wireless technologies.

Real Wireless comprises permanent and associate staff to deliver the very best in professional wireless expertise to a wide range of clients.

Our clients include:

• Enterprises who recognise the need for a comprehensive wireless strategy, but require additional specialist expertise to create their strategy or put it into practice
• Vendors of specialist wireless technology, especially novel infrastructures for high capacity and indoor coverage
• Operators of wireless services
• Regulators who are forming and maintaining policies to maximise the economic and social benefits associated with wireless technologies

Our services are diverse, covering a wide range of business issues, commercial and social objectives, environments and technologies. Our people’s expertise and interests span a broad set of topics. All of them share a set of common principles and values:

• Independence – We want to offer you impartial, unbiased advice, untainted by any desire to sell equipment or software. If we have a connection to an organisation which we think could be relevant to this, we’ll tell you. If we feel we cannot provide a truly independent response to your needs, we’ll decline the assignment.
• Integrity – We subscribe to the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Consultants’ Code of Conduct.
• Professionalism – We pride ourselves on approaching assignments in a professional, substantiated, evidence-based fashion. We adopt systems, tools and processes designed to provide a high level of quality in our work.

bnetTV speaks with Akshay Sharma of Gartner at the 2013 WiFi & Small Cells event held in Boston and gets a overview of the company and their products.

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. We deliver the technology-related insight necessary for our clients to make the right decisions, every day. From CIOs and senior IT leaders in corporations and government agencies, to business leaders in high-tech and telecom enterprises and professional services firms, to technology investors, we are the valuable partner to clients in 12,400 distinct organizations. Through the resources of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events, we work with every client to research, analyze and interpret the business of IT within the context of their individual role. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A., and has 5,300 associates, including 1,280 research analysts and consultants, and clients in 85 countries.

We are in steady contact with 60,000 clients, representing 10,000 distinct organizations worldwide. We publish tens of thousands of pages of original research annually, and our analysts answer 250,000 client inquiries every year. Our size and scale allow us to commit vast resources towards broader and deeper analyst coverage, and to deliver insight to our clients based on what they need and where they are.

bnetTV speaks with Tony Tramontana of Deutsche Telekom at the 2013 WiFi & Small Cells event held in Boston.

bnetTV speaks with Steve Hratko of Ruckus Wireless at the 2013 WiFi & Small cells event held in Boston.

Ruckus Wireless is a pioneer in the wireless infrastructure market, enabling carriers and enterprises to stay ahead of the exploding demand for high-bandwidth applications and services. The Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi technology redefines what’s possible in wireless network performance with flexibility, reliability, and affordability. We call this Pervasive Performance.

We've been singularly focused on Pervasive Performance in wireless since beginning operations in 2004, and we continue to lead the industry in performance innovation. We have never relied on off-the-shelf, reference design radio technology – it just doesn’t deliver the capacity, range or interference mitigation necessary to make the dream of high performance wireless a reality. Instead, we’ve assembled a team of the best and brightest wireless minds in the world to deliver the creative solutions needed to realize our Pervasive Performance vision.

So what is Pervasive Performance?

To all of us at Ruckus, it's our mantra. It's what we live every day; the first thought on our minds while we're enjoying our morning coffee to the last thing we think about as we’re wishing our families a restful sleep. It's our ultimate goal.

To you, it may seem like a marketing term…but it's not. It's a combination of innovative features needed to achieve the goal of delivering the most consistent and highest-speed wireless performance possible – anywhere, everywhere, all the time. Let us explain the various components that are absolutely necessary to achieve this unprecedented level of wireless performance:

• Adaptive Signal Control
  – your grandfather’s omni-directional antenna configs won’t cut it any longer.
• Interference Mitigation
  – there’s plenty of noise out there, and it’s only going to get louder.
• Capacity-driven Channel Assignment
  – long gone are the days of "set-it-and-forget-it" channel planning. Let's get dynamic, people.
• Dynamic Polarization Diversity
  – client devices are becoming increasingly small, smart and mobile…yesterday's fixed polarity just won't deliver acceptable connectivity to this Generation Next mobile device.
• Maximized Signal Strength
  – dBs are sexy. Well, maybe only to us radio heads…but they sure make a difference in wireless connectivity.
• Network Capacity Optimization
  – forget how many Mbps it says on the box or the Website or the datasheet…the only thing that matters is how much you can really get through the pipes. It takes some serious intelligence to maximize the real capacity of wireless.

Ruckus can provide all  of the components necessary to deliver Pervasive Performance. Sure, there are plenty of companies who can claim a few of these features, but none can provide the complete package. That's why Ruckus has and continues to be a market leader in smart wireless systems. It's simply the smartest wireless for a mobile world.

It all starts with our patented Smart Wi-Fi technology and its unique ability to extract unmatched capacity and reliability out of the 802.11 standards. Smart Wi-Fi leverages high-gain adaptive antenna technology and sophisticated best-path-selection algorithms to form and direct Wi-Fi signals over the highest performance paths to each and every client. Browse through our whitepapers and videos to learn about this technology in much more detail. Here, we’ll just say that it's so unique and powerful that we've been granted 60 patents – with more than 82 pending.

With this technology, we're able to do something that basic wireless technology can't – deliver longer range and more reliable Wi-Fi connections to client devices; Wi-Fi that reaches farther and is inherently more stable due to the adaptive nature and control of our technology. Smart Wi-Fi constantly steers signals around obstructions and obstacles, mitigates interference, and focuses RF energy only  where it's needed to ensure unprecedented coverage and consistent performance at longer ranges.

Ruckus Wi-Fi systems, with on our with our patented BeamFlex™ technology, are deployed in hundreds of thousands of locations across the globe. Our flagship product line, ZoneFlex™ Smart WLAN WLAN systems gives enterprises and carriers a full-range of indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi solutions for every imaginable application from streaming IP-based video over Wi-Fi to 3G offloading, wireless broadband access to high-speed 802.11n wireless LANs. ZoneFlex is the only centralized Smart WLAN system that combines Smart Wi-Fi and Smart Mesh networking technology within a single, powerful, wallet-friendly solution.

Ruckus Wireless delivers innovative solutions to the most critical issues facing today’s wireless networks: how to create affordable reliability and how to manage exponential growth. Ruckus hardware, software, and services help enterprises and carriers increase the range and reliability of their Wi-Fi networks, reduce the cost of deployment, and ensure consistent performance even in the most challenging environments.

It's what we do. It's in our DNA. And we're proudly leading the charge to deliver, to demand, Pervasive Performance in wireless connectivity.