T-Mobile Hires Eden Rock Communications to Help its Network

T-Mobile US has contacted Eden Rock Communications, a Seattle-based wireless networking startup, to help the company learn more about how their network is performing. Eden Rock has loaded its self-organizing network (SON) software into T-Mobile’s wireless infrastructure, allowing it to reconfigure itself as network demand and traffic patterns change, Kevin Fitchard of GigaOM reported. “For instance, if Eden Rock’s Eden-Net system finds that users start massing on a regular basis in a certain part of the network — if, say, a new park opens up — it can start boosting power and tilting antennas on the towers nearby, growing and shrinking cells to increase the capacity or expand the coverage available. The result: fewer dropped calls and stronger data links,” Fitchard explained.