A journal for networking and telecoms
In 2007,
Ericsson delivered its one millionth radio base station, some 20 years since shipping its first base station. It has taken only three years to deliver the next million. The two millionth radio base station was an Ericsson RBS 6000 unit, delivered as part of a mobile broadband network expansion project.
Ericsson estimates that its base stations connect 1.5 billion people worldwide.
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From the Graveyard
You just read about Ericsson. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Marconi Communications built Optical, broadband access and carrier switching. What became of it?
Marconi Communications brought Optical, broadband access and carrier switching to Telecom. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Ericsson for £1.2B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Ericsson today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
