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#34
What we learned running ORAN in three dense-urban microcells
Three sites within four kilometres of each other, identical hardware, three different operational profiles. — Rachel North · April 23
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#33
Quantising a Llama-3 8B for a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 — speed, cost, sanity
An end-to-end account of taking an 8B model from FP16 down to INT4 to run on a phone-class SoC. — Liam Klein · April 16
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#32
The case for delay-tolerant networking in cross-border deployments
Bundle protocol, store-and-forward gateways, and lessons from a cross-border IoT pilot where TCP simply didn't survive. — Kira Harris · April 9
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#31
n78 vs n79 in dense urban cores — a measurement walk-through
Drive-test methodology comparing n78 and n79 in two dense neighbourhoods — building penetration, when n79 wins. — Mark Dawson · April 2
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#30
Why on-device LLMs are the only honest answer for offline radio kits
Offline radio kits in field deployments, latency budget, and why API-based LLMs are unworkable for this use case. — Sara Kelly · March 26
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#29
Beam-management hand-tuning for in-building DAS — what nobody tells you
Vendor defaults assume macro deployments. DAS micro-cells need a different threshold story — what we learned hand-tuning one. — Rachel North · March 19
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#28
Practical NTP architecture for ORAN deployments
ORAN's ±100 ns sync target broke our default chrony stack. The PTP boundary-clock build that replaced it. — Kira Harris · March 12
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#27
Why we abandoned WireGuard for our cross-border IoT mesh
WG's replay-window assumption breaks badly under intermittent connectivity. The bundle-protocol replacement and what we lost. — Kira Harris · March 5
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#26
Worth your time — three on-device inference benchmarks
Curated reads on INT4 quantisation, llama.cpp memory layout, and an under-appreciated 1B-parameter model for radio kits. — Liam Klein · February 26
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#25
Notebook — what we read this week
Three short notes on industry developments, standards updates, and conference CFPs worth tracking. — Mark Dawson · February 19