WiMax
Tata Elxsi, Full Spectrum to Customize FullMAX Broadband Wireless System for Smart Grid Communications
Tata Elxsi Ltd, part of India’s Tata Group, and Full Spectrum Inc, headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, have team up to expand the market for Full Spectrum’s FullMAX broadband wireless system for smart grid communications.
The FullMAX system is an enhanced and extended version of worldwide Mobile WiMAX (802.16e-2005) standard designed for mission critical communications. The [...]
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 [...]
Aeroflex PXI 3000 Series Modular Test Platform Expands 2G and 3G Wireless Testing Capabilities
Expanded Measurement Capabilities Make the PXI 3000 Series One of the Most Comprehensive Software-Defined Communications Test Platforms Available
Wichita, KS—July 23, 2009—Aeroflex today announced the addition of new communications standards to its PXI 3000 Series modular test platform, now enabling communications test engineers to address a variety of 2G and 3G wireless data standards with a [...]
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 [...]
Agilent EDA software targets SDR PHY development
Agilent announced software specifically targeted at speeding up SDR PHY development – particularly LTE and WiMAX.
The new platform delivers modeling, design-flow improvements and baseband IP libraries that can cut months from physical layer (PHY) design time for high-performance communications algorithms and system architectures in both wireless and aerospace/defense applications.
Pricing for typical configurations starts at approximately [...]
CEVA Unveils Industry’s Highest Performance DSP Architecture for 3.5G/4G Terminals and Infrastructure SoCs
Ceva has announced an SDR vector DSP processor (Ceva-XC) supporting LTE class 5 and WiMax 16m (and of course all the legacy systems).
AND it’s for terminals.
It includes optimizing compiler and up to 4 vector units with a claimed 200 GOPS on the 3-way VLIW 256-bit vector unit (which sounds similiar to Sandbridge’s November 2008 announcement).