Multimode vector radio dismantles barriers to SDR software portability
My friends at Sigmatix and Octoscope have a nice follow-on EE Times article about Vector SDRs. The original article (mentioning Sandbridge) is here.
As an excerpt: To ensure the cost reduction of SDR platforms via economies of scale, software portability across processors must be achieved. The new generation of SDR, called multimode vector radio (MVR), offers that [...]
Network Performance – or when is a hub better than a switch?
Today is one of those crazy days where my network can not even seem to sustain a voip call. Frankly this really annoys me so I decided to debug my network. Recently I upgraded my home office to a business class cable modem with 5/22Mbps service. Simultaneously with that (yes, unadvised in any network deployment) [...]
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Android Surges Among Handset Purchasers
Between September and December 2009, the proportion of future smartphone buyers who planned to purchase an Android-based phone jumped from 6% to 21%.
Alcatel-Lucent introduces new converged radio technology that lets mobile service providers smoothly support any mix of 2G, 3G and 4G/LTE on the same network
Multi-technology radio module can be introduced in more than 700,000 Alcatel-Lucent based stations already installed worldwide, enabling a gradual shift from GSM to W-CDMA and LTE
Paris, February 4, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the introduction of a new radio module, based on software defined radio (SDR) technology, that gives mobile [...]
John Glossner
- SDR Forum Technical Conference Approaches (Dec 1-4)
- Multimode wireless and SDR success lies in software optimization
- Commentary: Vista Rage
- John Glossner announced as general chair of the SDR Forum’s SDR’09 Technical Conference
- Morpheus Reconfigurable Processor Announced
- Infineon Emerges with Satellite + Terrestrial SDR design win
- Using software modems to enable low-cost, converged wireless
- Sandbridge SDR Selected as ACE/EE Times Insight Award Finalist
- Mobile World Congress (MWC): Observations from Barcelona
- SDR Insider
Market
- 2G/3G Patent IP Ownership
- The iHog iPhone
- Handset industry recovers from a trough, but who would benefit going forward?
- The Future of Content Without Walls
- Marketing, Not Ads, Fuels Social Spending Growth
- Microtune Introduces Breakthrough Receiver Chip Delivering Superior Performance, Cost and Sizeto Worldwide Digital TV Market
- ONR Awards $9.5M SDR Contract to Raytheon
- ZTE SDR Base Station Records over 200,000 Volume Shipment
- US Leads in Scientific Publications but China is catching up
- Restaurants lead mobile alert survey
- Wireless Infrastructure Market Share
- Global Smartphone Market Breakdown
- Latest Handset and Smartphone Market Share
- Frequency Band and Communications Systems Trends
- Average Number of Frequency Bands per Cell Phone
- iPhone Tops in Smartphone Satisfaction
Twitter_Feed
- glossner: SDR’10 will be in the Hyatt (same hotel) in DC the first week of December next year. #sdr09
- glossner: http://znl.me/DE4BP John Chapin sporting a hat with the sdr forum’s new name – the wireless innovation forum! #sdr09
- glossner: Tonight I was elected to the Board of Directors of the SDR Forum!
- glossner: Emil Olbrich (NIST) #sdr09 reports highest realized LTE rates will be 8Mbps DL and 4.5Mbps UL for typical users.
- glossner: Jeff Bier reports #sdr09 Synfora and AutoDSL(?) high level synth tools get results on FPGAs equiv to hand coded RTL at dev time equal to C.
- glossner: Thelander #sdr09 reports Icera was the best performing chipset in testing even against Qualcomm and the other big guys.
- glossner: Thelander #sdr09 notes Telstra had 10Mhz of spectrum where Clearwire had 60Mhz of spectrum.
- glossner: Thelander #sdr09 reports Clearwire WiMax Portland drive testing achieved >4Mbps (app thruput not PHY). Mimo B was present 90% of time!
- glossner: Thelander #sdr09 reports drive test in Melburne rush hour hspa+ testing achieved average 5Mbps on Telstra. Wow… US should be so lucky!
- glossner: Attending the #sdr09 Market Analysts Session. A great lineup of speakers covering both commercial and gov’t markets.
- glossner: http://znl.me/DWGTC John chapin at #sdr09 at the evening entertainment with the capitalsteps.com. A dozen demos completed a great 1st day!
- glossner: At #SDR09 in DC. Note: i’m the general chair of the conference
- glossner: Enjoyed watching spurs hammer wigan 9-1!
- glossner: Dinner tonight at my favorite pizza place on earth – 4 brothers in Mahopac NY
- glossner: Enjoying a new sheraton tonight in mahwah nj
- glossner: Off to philly today