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Welcome to the first issue of The Basestation Conference E-Newsletter. As we highlighted in the conference “The Commodity Basestation: When, How and Who |
Wins?” the wireless infrastructure industry is going through a period of significant change - how basestations are built, who builds them and even who buys them are all likely to change substantially over the next few years. The impacts of architecture “standards” such as OBSAI, CPRI and ATCA, the growing importance of picocells and microcells as 3G rollouts bias towards data coverage and the increasingly blurred boundaries between telecom and datacom as standards like 802.16d/e (WiMAX) emerge are all powerful and relatively new dynamics in a world market worth more than $10B annually. Any changes in a market of this size can mean big money, black or red. |
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The Basestation e-newsletter is sent to over 20,000 managers and design engineers. If you would like to contribute news items, product information or articles ot the next edition (publication date Nov 3rd 2004) please email us - there is no charge. |
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 (by Jorgen Hjert) |
Ericsson Carl-Henric Svanberg the Ericsson CEO is the most powerful it-person in Sweden according to an investigation made by Ny Teknik ( a Swedish technology magazine). |
Håkan Eriksson, .Ericsson CTO, is number four on the same list. Carl_Henric Svanberg says that mobility is a focus area due to the fact that 3G now is launching. 3G An epoch has come to an end The Programmable Radio |
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Extending 3G indoors through pico stations. |
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One of the major challenges of 3G deployment has been achieving sufficient coverage, particularly inside buildings, to make the economics work to full advantage. The weaknesses of cellular networks within walls have not been such a serious issue |
as long as networks have been voice-oriented, since most voice usage is outdoor and mobile, but with 3G and its update HSDPA focusing on data revenue, it becomes increasingly likely that users will spend much of the time on their smartphones inside their offices or homes, or on public transport, and that primary usage will be urban. more>> |
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| SDR - Designing for Flexibility (Andy Thurston and Peter Whitworth - PA Consulting Group) |
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Software defined radio (SDR) is a technology that allows the functionality of a radio transceiver system to be defined by software, thus offering the flexibility to support multiple radio standards and multiple interfaces on a common hardware platform. Changes to the functionality or the interfaces of the SDR can then be made by developing the appropriate software. Upgrades to existing modules that provide new features and new radio standards need not require changes to the hardware, thus simplifying the roll out of new services. |
The flexibility at the interfaces of the SDR allow the base station manufacturer to select from a wider range of peripheral modules, thus opening up their selection and driving down costs. The earlier deployment of new services allows network operators to increase their ARPU, whilst end users also benefit from the earlier deployment of advanced mobile services at competitive prices. more>> |
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| Potential Contribution of SDR technologies to Open Base Station Initiatives. (Jim Gunn - Communication Consultant and Forward Concepts Associate) |
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SDR extend concepts that have been utilized in wireless phones and terminals, wireline modems, and associated infrastructure for many years. Programmable Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) and microprocessors have been employed to provide flexible and more cost-effective . |
implementations of the less-throughput-intensive, typically baseband, network, and related control functions in wireless modems. Configurable and custom Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) have been integrated, usually at the board level or more recently on SOC chips, to execute more throughput-intensive functions. These throughput-intensive functions have traditionally been implemented with ASICs (custom or FPGA) with less than desirable flexibility for multiple air interfaces. Even FPGAs which are programmable have utilized Hardware Description Languages (HDL) that has created a more complex and expensive development environment than programmable DSPs. more>> |
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OBSAI RP3 Interface solution for Cellular Base Station Architecture |
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Having been active within the Open Basestation Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) from the beginning, using their Stratix GX family of advanced FPGAs, Altera became the first FPGA |
vendor in December 2003 to support the Reference Point 3 (RP3) Baseband to RF module interface specification. This aritcle looks at their implementation and system performance based on their in houe RP3 reference design . more>> |
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Peter Kenington of Andrew named Technical Chair of OBSAI. |
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Analog Devices introduces single-chip dual 14 bit ADC up to 105 MSPSI. |
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Nujira Demonstrates Ultra High Efficiency Power Amplifier. |
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BittWare Announces TigerSHARC Universal Baseband Processing Module. |
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TelASIC Demonstrates 40 Giga Samples per Second Data Conversion Capability . |
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Vanu Software Radio Approved for Interoperability with Nortel Networks GSM MSC. |
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Philips breaks through Wideband-CDMA basestation efficiency barrier . |
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Multiple Access Communications Ltd adds HSDPA channels to its UTRA Blockset. |
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picoChip demonstrates “future proof” WiMAX Modem . |
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Intel and Proxim to Deliver Fixed and Portable WiMAX Products . |
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Cambridge Broadband become principle members of WiMax Forum. |
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Key Telecom Companies Adopt Intel-Based Modular Communications Platforms. |
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| TC2401, 14-Bit, 1 Giga Samples per Second DAC - 70dBc of spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) when clocked at a frequency of 1GHz with an output frequency of 125MHz and measuring SFDR over the entire Nyquist (fclk/2) bandwidth. more>> | |
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picoChip PC102: Sustained computation rates of more than 197 GIPs and 38.4 GMACs and 140 Gconvolutions/s simultaneouosly. This is supported by nearly 3.3 Tbits/s internal interconnect and more than 20 Gbit/s continuous real-time I/O. more>> |
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The CPCI-920/922 from Force Computers offers a single or dual Intel® IXP2400 network processor design, and NPF compliant co-processor and media mezzanine interfaces. The CPCI-920/922 maximizes available IP processing performance for 2-4-Gigabit/sec. data rate packet processing segments. more>> |
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