Mobile Leaders Facing Network Complexity Look to Bruce Lee

The final keynote session of Mobile phone Planet Congress 2012 might be remembered, if it is remembered in any respect, as being the Bruce Lee Keynote.

Both Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse and ZTE President Shi Lirong invoked the legendary kung fu grasp in speeches during the Thursday morning occasion, which happened as being the world's greatest mobile trade show arrived into a close in Barcelona. Their remarks summed up several of the challenges struggling with vendors and operators of cell networks, which can be getting to be more complex at the same time as data desire and value pressures increase.

This week's convention has hosted a flood of new developments for heterogeneous networks of conventional macro cells, Wi-Fi hotspots, and femtocells and also other small cells. The several components allow carriers to obtain essentially the most from their finite spectrum and optimize coverage and ability in all places, but this calls for new standards for handling those techniques and assisting subscribers transfer from one for the subsequent.

ZTE's Lirong cited Lee to go with Sprint, calling Hesse's business the premier case in point of a carrier balancing multiple networks. Sprint's services run above CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Accessibility), iDEN and WiMax, which 12 months the company may even kick off LTE (Long-Term Evolution). Furthermore, Lee mixed elements of many different schools of Chinese martial arts, he said.

"A true master, like Bruce Lee, is one that can converge the abilities of all kung fu methods," Lirong stated. "The one particular that masters the converged resolution for numerous networks is going to be kung fu learn of telecom."

Before, Hesse had quoted the star of "Enter the Dragon" in describing Sprint's philosophy:

"Simplicity could be the important to brilliance," Hesse said, quoting Lee. That sentiment may also have partly pushed Sprint's selection, in accordance to information studies earlier this week, to reject a proposed acquisition of midsize U.S. carrier MetroPCS. Sprint is presently within the center of developing a multitechnology network that will have its LTE services, and it is navigating a challenging relationship with Clearwire, which materials its current 4G network with WiMax. MetroPCS operates LTE and CDMA networks.

Juniper Networks CEO Kevin Johnson and Arm Holdings CEO Warren East discussed two other mobile network difficulties while in the keynote. Johnson said applications such as gaming and streaming video clip ever more will demand the exact same speeds upstream from handsets to the Web because they do downstream, that will drive a alter in the standard asymmetric construction of most mobile phone and fastened networks.

Arm's East stated power usage can be a main cost for carriers and one aspect limiting the enlargement of mobile phone networks. Arm can extend the sort of efficient, built-in system-on-chip patterns utilized in cellular products, in which it really is dominant, into mobile base stations, reducing their electrical power consumption by 70 p.c, he stated.