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June 23, 2014

Dali Wireless Unveils 10gbps In-Building Wireless Solution

Dali Wireless today unveiled a new high-density in-building mobile broadband solution that can route up to 300mHz of RF over a single fiber at the 10gbps rate. The solution, for which the company declined to provide pricing information, is slated for general availability starting in the fourth quarter.

This infrastructure is designed to enable service providers like AT&T to deliver mobile broadband services in venues such as convention centers, hospitals, malls, and stadiums. Providing a solution of this nature that scales to 10gbps is noteworthy both because it meets growing mobile bandwidth demands and because AT&T is standardizing its network with optical switches that operate at around 10gbps, explains Dali Wireless CTO Shawn Stapleton.

Not only is Dali Wireless scaling its portfolio, adds Stapleton, its solutions can allow network operators to dynamically allocate bandwidth capacity as needed. For example, if a large number of people within a mall in the food court during the lunch hour, the Dali system can focus more capacity on that sector of the venue. As a result, Stapleton says, network operators don’t have to overprovision base stations.

Dali Wireless, which was established in 2006, is a venture company-funded business that has been in the market for the past few years with its t-Series family of solutions, a frequency band-agnostic in-building solution that allows service providers to share infrastructure so venue owners don’t have to work with multiple carriers to get their locations outfitted for mobile broadband. The existing t-Series platform, which is a 164mHz solution, is in use at such locations as Children’s Hospital in New Orleans and the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel.

The new solution is backward compatible with the t-Series, but does require investment in new gear, says Stapleton, who adds that Dali Wireless plans to integrate public safety capabilities into its solutions in the future.

As discussed in the June issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, a TMC publication, the in-building network infrastructure market continues to grow, with distributed antennae system equipment revenues at $2 billion, up by more than 10 percent year over year, and almost $1.4 billion being spent on in-building coverage in 2013.





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