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Welcome to this latest issue of the Basestation Newsletter. I would like to thank all of you who contributed articles, news items or product information to this edition. Many of you have |
requested that we hold a Basestation Conference in North America. We are therefore pleased to announce the 'Dallas Basestation Conference ... enabling mobile broadband networks' to be held on 7th - 9th November 2006 in the luxorious Omni Mandalay Hotel. Full details of the programme will be emailed to you shortly. If you would like to participate as speaker, sponsor or exhibitor, please contact me by phone or email. |
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| Design for Manufacturing - Practical steps to reduce total cost of ownership (By Petra Ebner, Elcoteq SE) |
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It is well known that companies involved in the communications technology market are under pressure to produce quality products quickly and as cost effectively as possible. more>> |
| Wireless Infrastructure Market Evolution Tightens Transmitter Requirements - Innovative Architectures Help (By Matthias Feulner, Texas Instruments) | |
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Cost is the main driver for new wireless base stations in general and transmitter architectures in particular. But at the same time the desire to deploy flexible platforms that can be easily adapted are strong influences. more>> |
| Wi-Fi networks primed for mobile roamers (ByJulian Bright, Informa Telecoms & Media) | |
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Nomadix and Intel are two of some 25 companies that have been working with the IEEE, Wi-Fi Alliance, 3GPP and GSMA to harmonize different authentication and roaming standards set by IEEE, IETF and 3GPP. more>> |
| Gearing up for 3G growth (By Guillaume Pertinant, ST Microelectronics) | |
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Data-centric revolution, together with the emergence of diverse networking standards, such as EDGE, CDMA2000, W-CDMA, and WiMAX, has stepped up the need for greater flexibility in cellular base-station designs. more>> |
| Downconvert 64 channels using just one FPGA (By Simon Underhay, RF Engines) | |
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ChannelCore64 allows designers to replace up to 16 specialist DDC ASIC devices with a single IP core for FPGA, significantly reducing board area, lowering power consumption, and increasing flexibility. more>> |
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| Explaining HSUPA | |
| Design for Manufacturing - Practical steps to reduce total cost of ownership | |
| Software - The Big Engine Underneath the Hood of Wireless Networking | |
| Wireless Infrastructure Market Evolution Tightens Transmitter Requirements - Innovative Architectures Help | |
| Wi-Fi networks primed for mobile roamers | |
| From Plain Old Mobile Telephone Service to the Acceleration of Mobile Broadband | |
| Use a Mix of FPGAs and DSPs in Wireless Basestations For Cost-Effectiveness and Market Agility | |
| Downconvert 64 channels using just one FPGA | |
| Gearing up for 3G growth | |
| Now that certified WiMAX equipment is available, will it live up to its full potential? | |
| Explaining HSUPA (By Phil Medd, Aeroflex Test Solutions) | |
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With 3GPP HSDPA services becoming a reality, the corresponding enhancement to the uplink, logically termed High Speed Uplink Packet Access, or HSUPA, is now at an advanced stage in the standards development process. more>> |
| Software - The Big Engine Underneath the Hood of Wireless Networking (By Sindhu Xirasagar, Agere Systems) | |
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To the naked eye, it appears that cell phones and wireless base station equipment are the lifeblood of the rapidly mushrooming wireless industry. While this hardware is critical, the essential straw also stirring the gigantic wireless drink is an abundance of software. more>> |
| From Plain Old Mobile Telephone Service to the Acceleration of Mobile Broadband (By Joe Barrett, Qualcomm Europe) | |
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Demand for mobile Internet access and email, especially from business users has been confirmed by the first rail companies providing Wi-Fi access in trains. 3G, satellite and early commercial deployments of FLASH-OFDM are used as the mobile backhaul technologies. more>> |
| Use a Mix of FPGAs and DSPs in Wireless Basestations For Cost-Effectiveness and Market Agility (By Deepak Boppana, Altera Corp) | |
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Wireless systems designers need to meet a number of critical requirements including processing speed, flexibility, and time-to-market. These all ultimately drive hardware platform choices. more>> |
| Now that certified WiMAX equipment is available, will it live up to its full potential? (By Nicolas Salamina and Ramesh Kumar, Texas Instruments) | |
| WiMAX can be divided into two main types, ‘fixed' and ‘mobile'. Fixed or 802.16d WiMAX is based on IEEE 802.16-2004 and is the technology used in the recently certified WiMAX equipment. more>> |
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Vodafone to reduce the cost of European roaming by 40 percent . |
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Public Television and Verizon Announce Major Agreement for Digital Programming. |
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Orange Business Services to Launch Business Broadband. |
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Cingular Introduces 3G Broadband Network in Atlanta. |
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Nokia and TeliaSonera Sweden trial broadcast mobile TV using DVB-H technology and Nokia N92 mobile TV devices. |
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Wintegra adds adaptive clock recovery to its multi-service access hardware and software portfolio. |
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Sprint Expands Nationwide Roaming Agreement with Alltel. |
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Aeroflex Adds EvDO Revision A Test Support to 6402 CDMA AIME Test Platform. |
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Wavesat Previews WiMAX Nomadic Chipset Targeting Wireless Laptop and PDA Applications. |
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picoChip to provide modem for UbiquiSys 3G HSDPA home access point system. |
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Powerwave Technologies To Acquire The Wireless Infrastructure Business Of Filtronic plc. |
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ITexas Instruments and Tata Elxsi Deliver 802.16e Demonstration System to Support Emerging Mobile WiMAX Infrastructure Market. more>> |
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Andrew Introduces Industry’s First All-Digital Remote Radio Head. more>> |
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| TelASIC Introduces Digital Linearization Solution Tuned for Freescale’s RF Transistors for 3G and WiMax Base Stations. more>> | |
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Software Radio Transceiver Module Adds 256-Channel Digital Downconverter Core To Boost Channel Density by Order of Magnitude. more>> |
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picoChip showcases WiMAX 16e reference design at WiMAX World. more>> |
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RFMD® Introduces GaN HIgh-Power Transistor Product Family for Cellular and WiMAX basestations. more>> |
The Basestation e-newsletter is sent to over 15,000 managers and design engineers. If you would like to contribute news items, product information or articles to the next edition (publication date Sept 14th 2006) please email us. (ab@avren.co.uk) |
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