Apr 28, 2010 by Håkan Eriksson in the theme Mobile broadband – what’s in it for you?

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Ericsson's Chief Technical Officer, Håkan Eriksson, shares his thoughts on the vision of mobile broadbands 50 billion connected devices.

Aug 4, 2010 by Håkan Eriksson in the theme Mobile broadband – what’s in it for you?

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Would you take Eriksson's challenge to give up mobile broadband for a month in exchange for a night at the movies with popcorn and snacks thrown in?

Apr 26, 2011 by Håkan Eriksson in the theme A new generation of IP Networking

In the transformation of mobile networks into full IP broadband networks, advanced service-control functions are required at the edge of the network, in the so-called edge routers.

Differentiated management of Quality of Service (QoS) for different users, services and devices, provides "smart pipes" controlled by the policy control server. At the same time the edge router must handle the dramatically increasing data volumes. In a similar way, the fixed broadband edge routers increasingly require service awareness, driven by more bandwidth and QoS-sensitive applications such as HDTV.

Network traffic is becoming dominated by video downloads (streaming), so-called Over-the-Top (OTT) application data from clouds, and high-data-rate visual communication. Providing the best quality by optimizing QoS across radio access and edge routers is becoming a key differentiator for operators.

As a consequence of the dramatic data increase in the cellular networks, there is an increasing focus on small cell solutions to increase the capacity, complement the cellular network, or provide a combination of both. This takes the form of (1) WiFi complement, (2) Femto base stations or (3) Pico base stations.

The first – WiFi complement – is the most straightforward since the infrastructure is, in many cases, already there and the heavy data users are often stationary and indoors.

Femto base stations are in reality very similar to a WiFi modem, in that they also need to be connected to your fixed broadband, but with the important difference that they use the cellular air interface, instead of WiFi. Because most, if not all, data-heavy devices already have WiFi, the Femto does not really solve any capacity problem, but can be useful to improve indoor coverage for voice.

Pico base stations, unlike Femto, are small base stations that are connected directly to the operator’s radio access network, and are also controlled by the operator in terms of who is using them and so on. Pico adds substantial capacity and will be a necessary component of our mobile broadband offering. While realizing the difficult business case for the Femto to compete with WiFi in the home, the Femto industry is gradually moving towards the Pico solution.

Given the above multi-access scenario, it is important that the smart pipe logic ensures that a user is always best connected, be that over a cellular Macro cell, cellular Pico cell or WiFi access point.

Jan 10, 2011 by Håkan Eriksson in the theme Redefining the cloud: mobile and connected

At Ericsson, we have a vision of a world with 50 billion connected devices. Everything that can benefit from being connected will be connected – from phones and cars, to refrigerators and dishwashers. Together with our partners and customers, we will ensure that these devices can be connected wherever and whenever they need to.

When it comes to cloud computing, virtualized data centers and SaaS are now falling into place. Now, it is a matter of making sure we can reach these services. Through wireline connections, we have come quite far in enabling stable and fast connectivity. This is a huge enabler primarily for enterprise and non-mobile PCs.

But can we really be content with that? We see more and more mobile devices and they need mobile connectivity. A lot of these devices also have another thing in common: they benefit hugely from being able to access hundreds of applications in an instant.

This is what cloud computing together with mobile connectivity can enable.

The formula for success is: (device*innovation) + (cloud computing*innovation) + (mobile connectivity*innovation) + (application*innovation) = Mind-blowing innovation.

So, from the equation above we can derive that it is all a matter of innovation. When we start adding these pieces together and come up with completely new services that solve problems in our daily lives is when I think we are touching on something fantastic!

Let’s get some mind-blowing anything-anywhere innovation going.

One very practical example of such an innovation is the translating magnifying glass. Just hold your mobile camera over a foreign restaurant menu, and get the instant translation in the display, maybe with added recommendations from formers guests…

What would you like to do?