Basestation
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 [...]
ZTE SDR Base Station Records over 200,000 Volume Shipment
SDR Solution Helps Meet 3G Market Demands and Lowers Operator TCO
13 November 2009, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced that itsSoftware Defined Radio (SDR) base stations have recorded a total [...]
New vendor enters increasingly less crowded WiMax market
Telephony online reports that while the big vendors are looking to get out of the WiMax business, one vendor start-up is looking for a way in. Mountain View, Calif.,-based PureWave Networks next week plans to make its public debut in the WiMax scene, releasing a line of low-power compact mobile WiMax base stations.
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PureWave’s Quantum base [...]
ZTE Launches Industry First LTE and EV-DO Rev.B Dual-Mode System at EXPO COMM Wireless Japan 2009
22 July 2009, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced that it has launched an industry-first LTE and EV-DO Rev.B Dual-Mode System at the opening of EXPO COMM Wireless Japan 2009, the only [...]
América Móvil Launches World’s First SDR-enabled GSM/UMTS Converged Network Using Huawei’s SingleRAN Solution
[Panama, 11 May, 2009] Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (”Huawei”), a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, and América Móvil (AMX), the leading provider of wireless services in Latin America, today announced that América Móvil has launched the world’s first SDR (Software Defined Radio)-based GSM/UMTS converged network in Panama. The [...]
ZTE Wins AVEA 3G Deal
SHENZHEN, China — ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”), clinches another major customer win in one of the fastest growing markets in Europe. The company today announced that AVEA, one of the Top 3 largest telecom operators in Turkey, has awarded ZTE a WCDMA commercial contract. In line with the company’s strategic plan to expand its WCDMA coverage, [...]
Making cost-effective telecom base stations
The Hindu reports Sloka Telecom’s 5.8GHz suite of WiMAX (Worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access) products caters for the unlicensed frequency spectrum allowing wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) to deploy wireless broadband access networks without having to obtain frequency licences. Sloka’s 5.8GHz suite of WiMAX products includes base stations, subscriber stations, the authentication, authorisation and accounting [...]
Cambridge Consultants demos GSM PHY on picoChip
Cambridge Consultants announced a Novel GSM/GPRS/EDGE/E-EDGE PHY reference design offers potential to narrow the digital divide in developing world markets by enabling ultra-low cost 2G / 2.75G base-stations and femtocells
ZTE Unveils North American Strategy for LTE
ZTE USA announced with a Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform-based UMTS solution already developed and devices expected in the next 12-18 months, ZTE is positioned to provide end-to-end solutions for North American operators looking [...]
Huawei Technologies announced its SDR-based SingleRAN/LTE truck
3g.co.uk reports Recently, Huawei has been chosen by TeliaSonera, the largest telecoms operator in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, to supply the world’s first commercial LTE network, in Oslo, Norway. In 2008, Huawei launched the industry’s first 3G / 2G SDR based Software Defined Radio (SDR) SingleRAN product together with Vodafone Group.
Hong Kong scores a first with SDR-based HSPA+ mobile network
Telecom Magazine reports Hong Kong’s largest mobile carrier, CSL New World Mobility (CSL) is to replace its existing 2G/3G network using ZTE-designed Software Defined Radio (SDR) base stations offering HSPA+ capability and a migration path to next generation Long Term Evolution (LTE).
At a joint conference in Barcelona, GSMA Mobile World Congress, last week, Tarek Robbiati, [...]
ZTE first to demonstrate voice over EV-DO Rev B
ZTE announces another technological breakthrough by achieving the world’s first EV-DO Revision B (Rev.B) VoIP Call on its CDMA2000 system, marking the first time in the industry that a CDMA vendor achieves an impressive 9.3 Mbps download rate and 5.4 Mbps upload rate.
Compared with mature commercial EV-DO Rev.A, what ZTE’s EV-DO Rev.B does is to [...]
Octasic SDR targets GSM/EDGE basestations
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 [...]
ZTE SDR Solution Nominated for GSMA’s 14th Global Mobile Awards
PR Newswire reports ZTE Corporation (”ZTE”), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions has been shortlisted for the Best Network Technology Advance Award at the 2009 Global Mobile Awards, the most prestigious mobile honours in the mobile communications field, for its cutting-edge SDR (Software Defined Radio) solution. ZTE is the only Chinese company nominated for this global award.
ZTE’s ZXSDR B8200 and ZXSDR R8860 are the company’s two major SDR products. They are deployed by China Unicom in all of China’s 18 provinces for its WCDMA networks. ZTE launched the world’s first commercial SDR base station at the 2008 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The base stations simultaneously support both GSM and UMTS services, as well as provide a smooth evolution path for LTE.
To date, over 35,000 ZTE SDR base stations have been deployed in large scale networks in countries and regions such as Hong Kong, India, Turkey and mainland China.