The Denver-based communications company is laying approximately 18, 500 miles of Macro Capacity Fiber Network, an all-digital backbone that will connect over 130 cities by this March.

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Also important, this processing power combined with advanced digital radio interface and signaling capabilities enables small-cell base stations to operate in a more efficient and dynamic mesh network, as opposed to a relatively static, point-to-point macro only system.

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Until now, these small cells have served as a small-scale supplement to macro networks, but Qualcomm CTO Matt Grob sees them comprising a much bigger chunk of the network of the future.

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As optimism in the macro-environment slowly returns, we expect enterprises to loosen their purse strings more and invest heavily in their network infrastructure.

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