Octasic Inc. announced Vocallo BTS, its Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform for GSM, EDGE and EDGE Evolution base stations.
According to the company The Vocallo BTS Digital Signal Processor (DSP) integrates a complete Layer 1 baseband for up to 12 GSM carriers or 6 EDGE carriers or any combination. All this is achieved in a 15mm x 15mm BGA consuming less than 1W (or 80 mW per carrier). Vocallo BTS’ impressive power density figure is a direct result of Opus, Octasic’s asynchronous DSP core technology.
The bold announcement claims Cocallo is the world’s first “true” software basestation implementation. I’m sure there are a bunch of other companys scratching their head at this claim not the least of which is Vanu who has been shipping software GSM production basestations since 2004 when they blazed the certification trail with the FCC.
