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need to make this optimised and make sure your densification efforts are not in vain because you’re wasting all the new capacity you put in place. And so through MIMO we think that’s the optimal way to do that and so by running tutorials, it allows operators to better understand how they can actually implement MIMO in the real world.” As well as providing active intelligent electronics that makes everything work, CommScope are also a physical equipment provider, such as innovative solutions in terms of fibre connectivity and power. Sorsky describes it as the ‘plumbing side of things which the consumer never sees’. He said: “With all this new upsurge and demand for smaller cell sites, in each and every case you have got to back all the traffic from that unit and you’ve got to provide power to the unit, neither of which will work without power and backup. Our C- RAN offerings are really geared towards allowing operators to provide both power and fibre to typically difficult to reach locations.”
Also at MWC, CommScope showed its in-building
wireless solutions. “We are fairly unique in that we offer active electronics, DAS solutions as well as all of the physical kit,” said Sorsky. “We had the latest iterations of its in-building coverage solutions, two of which are particularly pertinent. One is what we call INC, which is in-building coverage but you do not need to put in coax RF equipment, it runs on the back of Cat6 cabling so it’s almost like a Wi-Fi offering but it’s a DAS version but you can connect through an existing enterprise building.” Sorsky continued: “In addition to that we were also showing our one-cell offering which takes me back to the virtualisation; our one-cell offering is about allowing operators to effectively extend their cloud into the building in a very cost effective space and we think that cost per square foot or the cost per building inhabitant of providing in-building coverage is going to drop substantially over the coming years. And between INC and one-cell that is our way of making sure that happens.”
The company is also celebrating its 40th birthday this year. Commenting on this, Sorsky said: “It’s incredible. I’m not sure how many players in our space or how many companies that began when we began are actually, not just still around but actually technically still innovating and leading, and for us, we’re not just still alive and kicking, we are making some noise and damage in the market.”
Back in August 2015, CommScope
acquired TE Connectivity and spent 2016 getting to know the company and building relationships. Sorsky explains why they made the decision to acquire TE Connectivity: “The theory behind the acquisition is definitely bearing through in two ways; firstly it spreads our own revenue profile, both from a geographic point of view as it has given us much bigger revenues in countries where we might not have been securing revenue in the past so it has spread our load in that way, and also in terms of parts of the market because we were very strong in wireless and we were pretty strong in cable TV and MSO type business but the generic fibre-to-the-x that we are seeing in France and Spain and so on, we were not really a player at all but now with TE we are now very much a player in that area.” MWC was a great show for CommScope
where they were able to focus on the different trends within the wireless industry and different solutions to meet capacity needs for 5G capabilities. With its 40th anniversary this year, the company has recently announced their all-time top 40 innovations for communications networks which can be found on their website.
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