The SCF DARTs – Disaggregated RAN Transport study – tool is an industry first, a means of precisely identifying the optimal split for RAN options. It is also a great example of SCF’s practical stance, where we focus on identifying…
This week SCF is in Kuala Lumpur at the TowerXchange Asia meetup, where Richard Kennedy, SCF COO, is running a workshop on regulation. Why is this important? All too often we tend to look at technology and regulation in isolation,…
As a global organization, SCF has a front row seat to the opportunities and challenges emerging across regions and nations, making us uniquely positioned to identify trends and common themes. When it comes to neutral hosts and private network service…
We’re pleased to announce ACES, an international neutral digital infrastructure company has joined SCF as a member and board member. We caught up with Dr. Khalid Al Mashouq, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) from ACES and Executive Board Member of SCF, to find…
Latest upgrades to SCF’s 5G FAPI suite advance interoperability, improve O-RAN ALLIANCE Open Fronthaul support, ease small cell deployments and accelerate massive MIMO features. London, UK, 23 August 2023 – Small Cell Forum (SCF) continues to advance its 5G FAPI…
SCF, the industry association driving small cell technology and deployment, has released its Market Forecast Report 2023 shedding light on the current state of mobile infrastructure deployment and the challenges faced by and opportunities open to the telecoms ecosystem. The…
SCF, the global trade organization supporting the evolution and adoption of low-cost, agile mobile infrastructure, today announced the publication of its latest white paper that highlights the key role small cells will play in the future technologies that will take…
Timely new release focuses on private small cell networks and how they can be customized for enterprise networks-as-a-service businesses – for both indoor and outdoor deployments. SCF (Small Cell Forum), the global organization supporting the evolution and adoption of low-cost,…
Another Small Cells World Summit is over for the year, but as with any successful event, the discussions and plans that were sparked by the conference will help to shape the industry long after the stands have been dismantled and…
Emerging Open RAN platforms promise to provide a standards-based way to implement virtualised, multi-vendor mobile networks. This could open up the close-knit RAN supply chain and provide operators with a wider choice of vendors, architecture and price points. In this…
The winners of the SCF Industry Awards 2023 were announced last night during the Small Cells World Summit in London. The SCF Industry Awards is the only entirely independent awards event supporting technical innovation in, and the deployment of agile,…
When small cells first became part of the mobile landscape, they were relatively unified in terms of technology and form factor, as befitted a primarily residential system. Small cell developers and deployers may feel very wistful for those days now,…