Small Cell Forum, the organisation making high-grade mobile connectivity accessible and affordable for industries, enterprises and for rural and urban communities, published a comprehensive overview of the components and interfaces that comprise a 5G NR FR1 small cell distributed radio unit.

Small Cell Forum (SCF) has published research setting out how edge computing will impact the future of small cell networks, with particular focus on private cellular networks. A survey of service providers for the paper shows that by 2025 almost 75% new indoor small cell deployments will be co-located with edge and/or private EPC. The paper is available to download here.

At its Rome 30th Plenary, the Small Cell Forum outlined six new development programmes designed to ease and speed small cell deployment, focus on developing technical solutions for HetNet integration, and establish requirements for 5G.