Significance: Some cellcos have managed to reduce the rate of growth in mobile data traffic using techniques like offload, but they will soon face a second tidal wave driven by the rise in cloud services, as highlighted in Cisco’s latest Visual Network Index. To deal with that, current tactics will be inadequate in many markets, and cellcos will have to move to the new generation of solutions for carrying multimedia over wireless connections. Central to these will be multimode small cells, supporting LTE, 3G and Wi-Fi, and these need to be integrated right into the heart of the carrier’s core network. As chip vendors race to deliver the multimode small cell, Alcatel-Lucent continues to disrupt the norms of cellular network…