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Welcome to this latest issue of the Basestation
Newsletter. |
Events is now building the speaker programme
for the 5th International Basestation Conference to be held in Bath,
UK (April 24th - 27th,2007). With top level speakers from many of the major
operators, OEMs and analysts already signed up we need to hear form you
soon If you would like to participate as a speaker, sponsor or exhibitor. |
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| Interview with Sunil M Sanghavi, Senior Vice President Products & Partnerships for ArrayComm | |
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In this frank interview with Sunil Sanghavi, Senior Vice President Products & Partnerships for ArrayComm, we explore the company's perspective on WiMAX and its role in future broadband mobile data delivery. more>> |
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| Exploring Femtocells: The Pot of Gold at the End of a Problematic Rainbow for Carriers (By Stuart Carlaw, Principal Analyst, Wireless Connectivity, ABI Research) | |
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There is no doubt that femtocells offer carriers substantial benefits that no other technology can match. But the femtocell equation is evenly balanced:- more>> |
| Mobile TV in Europe: Who Needs a Standard? (By John Barrett, Director of Research – Parks Associates) | |
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A fierce battle is being waged in Europe right now over mobile TV standards. The two leading candidates are DVB-H and T-DMB, technologies derived from digital TV and radio standards, respectively. more>> |
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| New Breed of Low-Noise Integrated VCO/PLL RF-Synthesizers Suits Wireless Infrastructure (by Matthias Feulner, Texas Instruments) | |
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In wireless communications system design the synthesizer generating the local oscillator (LO) clock for the mixers and (de-) modulators is one of the critical components determining system performance. more>> |
| Telecom equipment manufacturers can ease the telecom software crunch by using open architectures and COTS software (By Terry Pearson, Enea Embedded Technology) | |
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Telecom system designers who make the choice to use open architecture COTS software platforms can realize significant reductions in development cost while dramatically speeding time to market. more>> |
| SYNCWATCH A Case Study in Fault Detection on Network Timing (By Charles Curry, Managing Director - Chronos Technology Ltd) | |
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A leading Scandinavian Telecommunications Company was experiencing problems with leased lines taking traffic to a GSM base station. This was resulting in customers being unable to make calls from their mobile phones through that base station. more>> |
The Basestation e-newsletter is sent to over 16,500 managers and design engineers. If you would like to contribute news items, product information or articles to the next edition (publication date Feb 27th 2007) please email us. (ab@avren.co.uk) |
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| Interview with Sunil M Sanghavi, Senior Vice President Products & Partnerships for ArrayComm | |
| Exploring Femtocells: The Pot of Gold at the End of a Problematic Rainbow for Carriers | |
| Mobile TV in Europe: Who Needs a Standard? | |
| Can Voice be the Killer App for WiMAX? | |
| Case study: OBSAI – beating the wireless base station challenge | |
| The Key to a Femtocell in every Home and Office | |
| The Promise of WiMAX: Complexity and Opportunity | |
| Spectrum Liberalisation, UMTS900, Optimisation and the Need for Smarter Antenna Solutions | |
| Telecom equipment manufacturers can ease the telecom software crunch by using open architectures and COTS software | |
| New Breed of Low-Noise Integrated VCO/PLL RF-Synthesizers Suits Wireless Infrastructure | |
| SYNCWATCH A Case Study in Fault Detection on Network Timing | |
| Infrastructure OEMs must minimize the cost of WiMAX base stations in order to compete and profit. Here's how. | |
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| Case study: OBSAI – beating the wireless base station challenge (By Peter Kennington, Technical Chair of OBSAI and Tero Mustala, Chairperson of OBSAI) | |
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By defining a basic modular architecture and detailed specifications for the internal interfaces between base station modules, OBSAI's overall aim is to create a global open market for building cellular base stations. more>> |
| Can Voice be the Killer App for WiMAX? (By Elvis Tucker, Aperto Networks) | |
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Considering the growing popularity of Voice over IP (VoIP) in developed and emerging markets, where the cost of laying new fiber may be prohibitive, many believe that voice services may emerge as the “killer app” for WiMAX for many service providers. more>> |
| The Key to a Femtocell in every Home and Office (By Erik L. Org, Marketing Manager - BitWave Semiconductor) | |
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The OEM challenge is to deploy low cost, easy-to-provision infrastructure with technology which satisfies consumer's ever-growing need for quality anywhere anytime connectivity. One solution is the femtocel. more>> |
| The Promise of WiMAX: Complexity and Opportunity (By Antonio Policek, Tektronix) | |
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Mobile WiMAX combines the promise of a true wireless broadband experience with the benefit of mobility. It offers both fixed and mobile carriers a range of options for services that complement their business strategies and technology plans. more>> |
| Spectrum Liberalisation, UMTS900, Optimisation and the Need for Smarter Antenna Solutions (By David Barker, Director of Technology Applications, Quintel Technology) | |
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Mobile operators considering the deployment of new wireless access technologies in existing spectrum occupied by current cellular access technologies or for deployment of mixed access technologies in emerging technology neutral bands, will need independent RF tilt optimisation per access technology. more>> |
| Infrastructure OEMs must minimize the cost of WiMAX base stations in order to compete and profit. Here's how. (By Nicolas Salamina and Ramesh Kumar, Texas Instruments) | |
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Cost counts. In telecom, that goes without saying, but it bears repeating in the case of WiMAX, which is already a highly competitive market even though the first WiMAX Forum-certified equipment is only a few months old. more>> |
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Vodafone's six-month results: success with 3G and fixed network alternatives. |
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Orange Launches Mobile Sat Nav. |
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Cingular Completes National GSM Network Integration. |
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Huawei to deploy the largest HSPA Network in Middle East and North Africa. |
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Sprint Launches First EV-DO Revision A Broadband Network. |
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Wintegra’s WinPath Selected for Alvarion’s Next-Generation WiMAX Products. |
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Aeroflex IQCreator™ Signal Generation Software Now Supports WiMAX. |
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Celestica joins Freescale and Wavesat to offer production-ready WiMAX reference design. |
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ip.access selects picoChip technology for 3G femtocell development. |
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SELEX Communications Selects PrismTech’s Spectra Tools for Software-Defined Radio Development. |
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Anritsu Passes 3G Milestone by providing the First HSUPA Conformance Test Case. |
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Enea Announces Version 2.0 of Element High-Availability. |
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China Netcom Gansu Chooses Proxim’s End-to-End Wireless Solutions . |
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ADAPTIX Wins Best of WiMAX World Award for System Design. |
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InfiNet Wireless SkyMAN NG™ universal platform earns top honors at WIMAX world. |
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IDT Enhances Efficiency of Next-Generation Wireless Infrastructures with Industry’s Only Pre-processing Switch. |
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LitePoint Adds Mobile WiMAX 802.16e Support to IQmax WiMAX Test System. more>> |
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Xilinx and Axis Announce Integrated Radio Card for WCDMA, WIMAX Standards. more>> |
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Elektrobit Introduces Base Station Interface Tester for Verification of OBSAI RP3 and RP3-01 Interfaces. more>> |
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Teledyne’s GRF172 for Bypass and Attenuation Circuits. more>> |
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| TelASIC offers 40W fan-less Remote Radio Head (RRH) product. more>> | |
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Pentek's Digital Receiver Board with High-Speed A/D and Installed FPGA Dual-Channel Digital Downconverter. more>> |
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C-MAC’s new 5 x 3 TCXOs are small, stable and secure. more>> |
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Aperto’s PacketMAX PM5000 WiMAX Base Station. more>> |
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siGEN uses P21 fuel cells for telecommunications. more>> |
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AWR Releases Latest Mobile WiMAX Design Capability for VSS. more>> |
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Isola Substrate with Low Loss with Flat Response Over Frequency. more>> |
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Global Base Station Market Analysis and Forecast, 2005-2010. (10% Discount for Basestation e-Newsletter Readers with Promo Code BTS1106). more>> |
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Fixed-Mobile Convergence: I nterconnecting Fixed Broadband and Mobile Networks. more>> |
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The Business Case for WiMAX. more>> |
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Wireless Broadband Forum announces world class line-up of speakers in Cambridge. more>> |
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5th International Basestation Conference (April 24th -27th 2007). more>> |
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3GSM World Congress (12th - 15th Feb 2007). more>> |
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