The two smaller national U.S. carriers appear to be more publicly pushing LTE-Advanced-ready networks than their bigger rivals.
T-Mobile USA is likely to launch its first LTE networks in Las Vegas and Kansas City next week. The operator is deploying a 3GPP Release 10 LTE network, which is the basis of LTE-Advanced, but it doesn't have the hardware or device support to implement all the features. (See T-Mobile's LTE Advance: What's Happening.)
Sprint Nextel Inc. said at the start of its Network Vision 3G and 4G upgrades in late 2011 that it was planning to move to LTE-Advanced.
Iyad Tarazi, VP of network development & engineering, said Sprint was testing 4x4 antenna arrays in the lab in late 2011. He suggested that Sprint could deploy in 2013 and that the larger form factor of tablets will likely be an initial platform. (See Sprint Plans LTE-Advanced Launch in 2013.)
Light Reading founder Steve Saunders talks with VMware's Shekar Ayyar, who explains why cloud architectures are becoming more distributed, what that means for workloads, and why telcos can still be significant cloud services players.
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