Software Defined Radios (SDRs) allow operators and service providers to provide alternative equipment testing methods to the traditional heavy scanners and tests currently conducted in the field. SDRs open an opportunity to low-cost options of not just scanning predefined networks, but quickly finding competitor networks, bandwidths, and use configurations with open source stacks and crowd funded hardware.
With greater than 70% of wireless network traffic being indoors, the potential of WiFi calling addresses the two main issues facing today’s wireless networks.