A year after forming their wireless partnership, Intel and Franco-American network builder Alcatel-Lucent say they’re ready to start moving the mobile network from the cell tower into the data center. At… Read more »
Structure Launchpad finalist, Phluido, founded by former Qualcomm engineers, plans to centralize the thus-far-distributed nature of the mobile radio access network and put it — where else? — in the cloud. Read more »
At Mobile World Congress, NSN announced plans to embed IBM application servers into its base stations. The radio and services networks have always been separate, but NSN is making a case… Read more »
Intel’s wireless ambitions go beyond smartphones and tablets. It’s set its sights on the guts of the mobile network as well. By embracing a new network design concept called Cloud-RAN, Intel… Read more »
Nvidia is making headlines this morning with the news that it will spend $367 million to acquire Icera, which makes baseband processors for 3G and 4G mobile phones. The move will… Read more »