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Communications Industry challenges Network Virtualization, SK Telecom to promote NFV Bu...

Korea’s communications industry has challenged network functions virtualization (NFV) technology development as the first in the world. Following LG U+, SK Telecom also started a network function virtualization project implementer selection process, and thus drew attention of the solution industry as well as domestic and international communication equipment makers. Virtualization is...

11/06/2014

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World IT Show 2014: SK Broadband/SK Telecom's Gigabit Internet Access Network

SK Broadband & SK Telecom (SK) introduced various gigabit Internet access network solutions at the World IT Show 2014 held in Busan on October 20th. SK noted that the new solutions will be able to provide a bidirectional Internet speed of 1 Gbps per user. The company has been offering Internet services including LAN, FTTH, HFC and XDSL to its 4.7 million subscribers. At the show, the compan...

10/31/2014

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SK Telecom and Ericsson Develop Smart Wake-Up Technology

SK Telecom and Ericsson Develop Smart Wake-Up Technology Smart Wake-Up Technology decreases interference between base stations and therefore improves data transmission speeds by controlling operation of idle base stations during late night and early morning Improves energy-efficiency of networks by reducing energy waste through intelligent cell operation SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announ...

10/30/2014

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SK Telecom's Network Evolution Strategies (3) - RAN Architecture Evolution Strategy

3. RAN Architecture Evolution Strategies SK Telecom introduced C-RAN right from the very early stages of the LTE service commercialization (January 2012) as an effort to achieve higher mobile network operation efficiency and more cost savings. As a result, most of the company's RAN is now in C-RAN architecture, where macro BBUs are separated from RRHs, and moved to centralized locations...

10/27/2014

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SK Telecom publishes White Paper on 5G Technology

SK Telecom today announced that the company published a white paper on 5G to suggest new direction for technological evolution to 5G, the next generation mobile communications network. SK Telecom’s white paper on 5G is now available to the public at 5G Global Summit which is an international 5G conference held on October 20 and 21 during the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan. Ex...

10/21/2014

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SK Telecom and Samsung Electronics Join Hands to Lead 5G Network Technology

SK Telecom today announced that the company and Samsung Electronics will team up to lead 5G network, the next generation mobile communications technology, on October 20, 2014. The two companies signed a MOU to start joint research on 5G network technology and service development. SK Telecom and Samsung Electronics agreed to cooperate mainly to share 5G vision with standardization groups and...

10/20/2014

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SK Telecom, Ericsson and Qualcomm successfully demonstrate LTE-Advanced Tri-Band Carrie...

SK Telecom, Ericsson and Qualcomm successfully demonstrate LTE-Advanced Tri-Band Carrier Aggregation on Commercial Network. Speeds of up to 300 Mbps achieved with LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) Tri-Band Carrier Aggregation, using three separate and discrete bands Technical achievement enables operators to implement performance improvements across the LTE coverage area Ericsson, SK Telecom and Qualc...

10/16/2014

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SK Telecom's Network Evolution Strategies (2) - Inter-cell Coordination Evolution Strategy

2. Inter-cell Coordination Evolution Strategies CA improves network capacity by broadening frequency bandwidth, whereas inter-cell coordination technologies do the same task by enhancing frequency efficiency. Inter-cell coordination is designed to manage radio resources more efficiently by having cells in different sites share user and/or cell information with each other. Inter-cell coo...

10/13/2014

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SK Telecom and Samsung Electronics jointly developed ‘True Real-Time Mobile Streaming T...

Demonstrated ‘True Real Time Mobile Streaming Technology’ applied with the next generation media transport standard on commercial LTE network for the first time in the world Successfully reduce live video streaming latency on mobile networks by 80 percent Plan to jointly promote global standardization and commercialize the technology within 2015 SK Telecom today announced th...

10/10/2014

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SK Telecom's RAN Evolution Strategy

10/09/2014

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SK Telecom's Network Evolution Strategies (1): Carrier Aggregation Evolution Strategy

SK Telecom is the #1 mobile operator in Korea, with sales of KRW 16.6 trillion (USD 15.3 billion) in 2013, and with 50.1% of a mobile mobile subscription market share in 2Q 2014. It launched LTE service back in July 2011, and now more than half of its subscribers are LTE service subscribers, with 55.8% of LTE penetration as of 2Q 2014. Due to LTE subscription growth, more advanced device feat...

10/07/2014

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Korea Communication Review, October 2014

10/06/2014

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Korean big 3 telcos offer hassle-free and instant upgrade to Giga-class Internet withou...

In the past two years, some new technologies have been introduced in Korea, apparently increasing broadband Internet speeds 3~5 times faster, from 100 Mbps to 300~500 Mbps, instantly. It certainly is fascinating in that such speed improvement was achieved without the hassle of re-cabling construction in apartment buildings. Because 100 Mbps had seemed unbeatable for almost a decade, this sure w...

09/18/2014

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LTE RAN Architecture: Cell site and LTE BS, B/F-Hauling, Coordination, Comparison and C...

08/06/2014

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Korea Communication Review, July 2014

07/04/2014

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LTE in Korea UPDATE - May 1, 2014

06/02/2014

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Netmanias Interview with HFR - Fronthaul Solutions for LTE/LTE-A C-RAN (Cloud RAN)

HFR is probably most known as a vendor of wired/wireless network equipment like Mobile fronthaul, Carrier Ethernet, FTTx, etc. Today, we are going to hear from Dr. J.H. Lee (jongheonlee@hfrnet.com), CTO of HFR about one of its most popular solutions, flexiHaulTM, a mobile optical access solution. 1. Welcome! Thank you for being with us. Can you tell us a little bit about HFR first?...

05/27/2014

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Evolution of Mobile RAN Architecture in LTE/LTE-A Era (C-RAN)

1. Traditional RAN Architecture and Issues 1.1 Issue No. 1: Degraded service quality and network performance due to inter-cell interference 1.2 Issue No. 2: Increased costs of building and operating cell sites 2. Degradation of service quality and network performance due to inter-cell interference: Prevented by reducing X2 distance 3. Costs of building and operating cell sites: Reduced...

04/16/2014

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