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DragonWave hanging onto Nokia Siemens lifeline

DragonWave announced a year-over-year trebling in revenue for the third-quarter of its fiscal year, but the company's quarterly loss grew by $5 million.

FairPoint expanding FTTT mobile backhaul business

FairPoint Communications expects to grow its Ethernet Fiber to the Tower (FTTT) mobile backhaul business in northern New England by at least 39 percent this year, as it increases the number of mobile connection points to more than 1,300 based on signed contracts with wireless carriers.

Eco-Site targets blighted areas for wireless sites

MSouth Equity Partners committed an $80 million investment in Eco-Site, a start-up planning to build wireless sites on brownfield and blighted properties in highly congested metropolitan markets.

LightPointe 60 GHz backhaul radio includes 5 GHz backup plan

LightPointe unveiled its AireBeam G60-DP, a 60 GHz backhaul radio that switches to 5 GHz during the types of humid or moist weather that can impact 60 GHz transmissions.

Altobridge's Data-at-the-Edge cuts carrier's mobile backhaul costs by 40%

Malaysian mobile operator Maxis slashed its mobile backhaul costs by more than 40 percent via its use of Altobridge's Data-at-the-Edge (DatE) architecture, according to the vendor.

Alcatel-Lucent revamps backhaul portfolio for small cells

Backhaul issues can break the business case for small cells, and Alcatel-Lucent is hoping that by expanding its mobile backhaul portfolio it can help make small cells even more attractive to mobile operators.

Accedian NanoNID targeting small cell performance assurance

Accedian Networks, a vendor of performance assurance Ethernet demarcation products, is targeting the small cell backhaul market with its NanoNID, a USB stick-size network interface device designed to provide remote troubleshooting, performance measuring and capacity planning for small cells, mobile backhaul and CPE networks.

ABI: OFDM non-line of sight to dominate small cell backhaul in 2017

Deployments of LTE small cells are prompting across-the-board growth in backhaul technologies, with microwave backhaul equipment in particular expected to generate a compound average growth rate of 35 percent between 2012 and 2017, according to ABI Research.

Rumor mill: Qualcomm buying Israeli small cell player

Qualcomm is positioning itself for a small cell play with the planned acquisition of DesignArt Networks, according to an Israeli newspaper, which said Qualcomm is expected to pay $120 million-140 million for the startup.

FCC eases microwave backhaul rules

The FCC issued an order designed to reduce operational costs and facilitate the use of wireless backhaul in rural areas.