Tellabs Blog

For most operators, bandwidth demands are accelerating faster than they can cost-effectively support. To keep up, operators need to gain more visibility into, and control of, their mobile networks. To get this control and visibility, operators need smarter networks.

I've been fortunate to work on new products several times in my career. Most recently, I worked with a talented group of engineering teammates to bring the Tellabs SmartCore® 9200 Series to life.

Developing a new product is always a bit of science, a bit of art, and a bit of controlled chaos. But in this case, our customers gave us a clear message: we need a network that helps us deliver a consistent quality of experience (QoE) while increasing our revenue and reducing our costs.

Ok, the idea that your smartphone might know when you're hungry is a little far fetched. But not that far. Think about it: nothing else is closer to your brain than your smartphone.

We see lots of growth in the mobile space today, such as telemedicine, machine-to-machine, video calling and tablets. But many operators today are caught in a dilemma: how to maximize long-term growth with these new trends while understanding the potential for short-term unprofitability if they don’t make changes to their networks soon.

What if you could get Internet or access applications on your mobile phone — but couldn’t make a voice call?

It seems silly. Yet as data and application usage (and subsequent “network chattiness”) increases, operators have been more focused on data in their networks — especially LTE networks. As LTE becomes a mainstream technology, it must quickly address the most basic, yet the most important, service required of a mobile phone: the voice call.