With lightRadio Cube, the engineers at Bell Labs sound like the slick designers at Apple. Part of a mobile and broadband infrastructure technology Bell parent Alcatel-Lucent unveiled Monday, lightRadio Cube packs a radio, amplifier, and passive cooling unit into a 6-cm cube that can fit in the palm of a hand. It also packs a wallop of a promise: “greener, simpler, lighter networks” that AL claims will “radically shrink and simplify base stations and cell towers, typically the most expensive, power hungry, and difficult to maintain elements in a network.”
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Alcatel-Lucent Aims to Rid the Planet of Monster Cell Towers
Posted by: Mike Martin February 7, 2011 02:29 PMWith lightRadio Cube, the engineers at Bell Labs sound like the slick designers at Apple. Part of a mobile and broadband infrastructure technology Bell parent Alcatel-Lucent unveiled Monday, lightRadio Cube packs a radio, amplifier, and passive cooling unit into a 6-cm cube that can fit in the palm of a hand. It also packs a wallop of a promise: “greener, simpler, lighter networks” that AL claims will “radically shrink and simplify base stations and cell towers, typically the most expensive, power hungry, and difficult to maintain elements in a network.”