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Significant adoption of multiband small cells with embedded Wi-Fi is...

Significant adoption of multiband small cells with embedded Wi-Fi is expected by 2016, Mobile Experts said Wednesday in a market forecast. The early small cell market will use RF backhaul below 6 GHz to address initial market requirements for throughput…

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below 80 Mbps, but by 2016 multiband small cells will have “much higher throughput requirements in the backhaul,” said Mobile Experts principal analyst Jonathan Wells in a news release. “We anticipate an additional market segment where high-throughput millimeter wave backhaul links will be required.” The cost of wireless backhaul will reach the “tipping point” in 2015, at which point small cell deployment will be possible on a large scale, Mobile Experts said (http://xrl.us/bn3wvq).