LTE / WiFi – enterprise network infrastructure

When you think about enterprise mobility what comes to mind? BYOD.  iPads. WiFi upgrade. These are all reasonable answers. How many people would add embedded wireless machines to that list. Of those, how many have added these to their enterprise mobility planning? Very, very few. That is because few people understand that the future of mobility includes a lot of mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) com

Friday I reviewed the finding that there will be over 1 Billion LTE users by 2017 as reported in Ericsson’s Traffic and Market Report. The same report includes analysis that expects mobile data traffic to grow by 15 times over the next five years. This is explosive growth for sure. The research also allows us to compare this data point  against the current gold standard of mobile data traffi

Ericsson released its Traffic and Market Report this week and it estimates there will be 1 Billion LTE subscribers by 2017. Maybe more interesting is the revelation that 50% of the world’s population will have LTE coverage at that time up from just 315 million reached today. ABI Research forecasted in May that LTE subscribers will surpass 40 million this year or a little or 12% of the popula

Since the 2007 iPhone introduction clogged AT&T’s data network in downtown San Francisco we have had a steady diet of offloading by cellular carriers. What is offloading? It is when a mobile cellular carrier moves your data session from its network over to a local WiFi network. Too many smartphone users all pulling down content at the same time creates a data bottleneck that shows up as

Does LTE make a difference? I don’t think anyone would disagree that LTE/4G enables much faster data. As an example I thought I’d share a field trial utilizing LTE to watch live video while on Amtrak traveling between Washington, DC and New York City. The service and gear: Verizon LTE service running over a Motorola Droid Razr Maxx (Apple lovers now have an LTE option for iPad…iP

Mobile Devices Now Exceed PCs & Laptops According to research firm Canalys, smartphones exceeded PC shipments for the first time in 2011.  Expect this trend to be permanent.  Canalys was focused on mobile devices exceeding all PC, laptop, netbook and tablet shipments combined.  At EdgeLens we categorize tablets as part of the smart mobile category. When you combine smartphones and tablets into