In theory, small cells should make sense to me. Processing at the edge is happening, coverage is needed, and yet multi-carrier never seems to be the story that companies share with me. Back in the early days of Femto (a small, fully featured, low-powered cellular base station), I felt like the Femto crowd had time-traveled from somewhere before 1982 and the breakup of AT&T. Every conversation I had was like one controlled line with an expectation of total control. The reality was very different; even in countries where the PTT was privatized only a few years ago, few could claim 50 percent market share. So the use of a Femto that was on fiber from the same carrier was at best going to only hit a portion of the market.
Then came the migration to “small cell” as the term and yet the conversation rarely was aimed at the realities of the subcontracted market.
Speaking with Mike Collado, the VP of marketing at Solid, I was happy to have a conversation about DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) that fit into the market of multi-carrier interconnections and the deployments in place today that have been subbed out to regional and local companies. It’s not that carriers can’t build their own networks, but we have been in a phase beyond the field of dreams (“If you build it they will come”), to a stage of “they are on the network already and want more.”
But best of all, Solid has a DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) fiber interface that allows the deployments to share single strands. This makes the DAS far cheaper to deploy and suggests that right-of-way problems can be reduced...Read More
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