Small cells will fill in the gaps between the large towers and help with transmitting data.
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The protesters opposed a maximum-security system in which prisoners were held in small cells instead of large wards.
It also thinks networks will be designed with many very small cells complementing the normal cells handled by large, expensive base-stations.
Small cells would be much cheaper than large outside cells that typically cover a radius of 1 km. to 2 km.
Recent research shows that network operators plan to run 12% of their 4G traffic over small cells by the end of 2012.
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This means more cell towers, more small cells, more Wi-Fi, more advanced technology like LTE and MIMO, more spectrum, and of course more investment.
To manage this demand, operators are combining small cells with their large scale infrastructure, which have the advantage of serving a smaller group of customers nearby.
According to Davidson, Qualcomm believes that one way to deal with the thousand-fold explosion of data is to put small cells in between all the main cellphone towers.
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You see, macrocells (read: towers) can blanket wide areas in signal, but they struggle to penetrate the innards of buildings, which is where small cells come in handy.
These secondary market transactions could quickly inject real capacity into the market and thus smooth the transition to a future where auctioned spectrum, technology, and small cells yield more bandwidth.
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.
This means more cell towers, more small cells, more Wi-Fi, more advanced technology like LTE and MIMO, more spectrum, and more Ethernet optical fiber links connecting all these wireless and data center nodes.
Small cells are critical to the future of wireless broadband by enabling operators to continue to provide high-quality, consistent services to customers without the need to build costly, and sometimes logistically challenging, cell towers.
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Residential or enterprise small cells, sometimes referred to as femtocells, are designed for deployment in residential or office settings to connect anywhere from 8 to 64 users within a radius of a few hundred feet.
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In addition to removing regulatory barriers, the Commission continues to push ahead on innovative spectrum solutions in addition to traditional auctions, including incentive auctions, government-commercial sharing, technology-based opportunities like small cells, and freeing up unlicensed spectrum for innovations like Wi-Fi.
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The irony in all this is that Anonymous by nature is not a massive, global organization constantly plotting new cyber attacks against governments and corporations, but small cells of people working independently across the globe, some vastly more skilled than others in hacking, but sharing the same name.
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In order for network operators to effectively deploy and manage such a large number of distributed access points (one analyst recently predicted 12 small cells will be deployed for each macro base station), these small-cell base stations need to be compact, inexpensive, energy efficient, reliable and easily manageable by the same system that operates macro cells.
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But Canon is hardly the only firm to shift from assembly-line to small production cells.
Qualcomm chief Paul Jacobs talked about addressing the problem by adding a series of ultra-small communications cells, and storage methods, to ease the data load from the overall network.
This fall Dirks and six scientists at the University of Toronto proved the existence of the cells in human brain tumors, pinpointing a small group of cells believed to be the driver of the tumors' growth.
In the case of IntelliCell, the company focuses more on producing large amounts of SVF cells from just a small amount of autologous fat cells of about 2 oz.
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Researchers at the University of Bristol and the University of Dundee have wrangled small particles and cells by using a sonic (or ultrasonic) vortex.
You're now dealing with substances so small they can target cells or organs without damage to surrounding tissue.
An additional advantage of nanocrystals is that they are small enough for the cells that live inside bones to latch on to.
His conclusion is that the main difference is in the structure of the small columns of nerve cells that are packed together to form the cerebral cortex.
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This travels into the brain along an optic nerve (there is one for each eye) to arrive at one of two small clusters of nerve cells called the lateral geniculate bodies.
The idea was to knit together an ad-hoc network of small, low-powered cells femtocells which would be connected to a telecoms network.
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