Taking some comments from Seth at SOLiD, but will add my own. Definitely, the revolution especially in healthcare is to provide “smart phones” the need for connectivity inside hospitals. That was definite from the mHealth conference in Washington D.C., last week. So you have to take the connectivity and coverage where people are using these devices.
“The good old days of Tower and Power are ending”, there will be dramatic growth in femtocells, picocells, and what we have traditionally thought of as DAS. All of the major DAS players are working very hard on the next generation digital and/or IP based solutions, with the whole idea of placing amplifiers close to the end users. These small cell networks (call heterogenous networks, or HET for short), are a coming design where one network extends from the core to the base station to the outdoor DAS to the indoor DAS to the femto cell with seamless hand-offs. Power levels are then stepped down in accordance. SOLid is developing the next generation Digital DAS based upon optical tunable laser technology which can virtually replicate existing fiber 16 to 32 times, support long distances of up to 60km without regeneration or amplification, and eliminate the need for truck rolls and reduce commissioning time to minutes