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Creating Innovative Mobile Services Using IP Networks

whitepaper Installing an IP router into Base Transceiver Stations not only optimises cost and simplifies complexity in the network, it promises the development of new, innovative multimedia IP-based value added services.

Tags: voip - ip telephony, strategic, radio, bandwidth

[16 May 2008]

Nationwide WiMax in next two years?

News He said: "[3G operators] will need huge levels of new base stations or they will have to partner with WiMax and offer 3G solutions for specific [voice-related applications]. The former approach is unlikely to happen, as European operators have...

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not… And data losses never seem far from the reader comments page, with this week being no exception… Another item on the...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

Tata Consultancy Services Case Study: GSM VoIP Gateway

whitepaper The customer approached TCS with the requirement of helping them build the software for GSM VoIP gateway, GSM-H.323 inter-working and network management solution for managing the base stations (BTS). The client is in the business of building a...

Tags: gsm, gsm, management solution, multi

[03 Apr 2008]

Soft Handoff and Uplink Capacity in a Two-Tier CDMA System

whitepaper Soft handoff means that a given user communicates simultaneously with two or more base stations until its path gain to just one of them is several dB stronger than its path gain to any other. This is in contrast to hard handoff, wherein the user...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, path, capacity, base

[24 Mar 2008]

The Access Service Network in WiMAX: The Role of ASN-GW

whitepaper A different variety of base stations are connected to access gateway to meet the extended coverage with high speeds and end-to-end throughput and all traffic run through these gateways. Fourth-generation networks will emerge from open IP-OFDMA...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[11 Mar 2008]

New mobile masts to be drastically reduced

News Leading mobile operators have said they want to drastically cut down on the number of new base stations they deploy. Hartmut Kremling, the chief technology officer of Vodafone Germany, said: "Site acquisition [for deploying base stations] is more...

Tags: mobile, base stations, femtocell, coverage

[07 Mar 2008]

Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide

News A few years back, UK-based company SkyLinc was touting its Low-Cost Integrated Broadband Radio Access communications platform - a delivery method that proposed to use inflatable base stations, tethered to fibre-optic poles, to bring the benefits...

Tags: broadband, satellite, wimax, spectrum

[06 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks

Comment The radiation from mobile devices, base stations, wi-fi and WiMax equipment is non-ionising. In the mean time I'm off to install my own mobile base station so I can increase the power level to my handset and minimise the non-risk in my life.

Tags: health risks, wi-fi, wimax, wireless

[04 Mar 2008]

T-Mobile injects cash into femtocells

News Femtocells are mini base stations for the home or small office. T-Mobile has invested in the UK-based femtocell manufacturer Ubiquisys. Ubiquisys is one of the main promoters of the mobile technology and has already received funding from companies...

Tags: femtocell, mobile, t-mobile, coverage

[04 Mar 2008]

3G operators must learn to share

News Heath added: "It has taken the UK operator 3 about four years to increase its number of 3G base stations from about 5,000 to 7,500 but its network sharing agreement with T-Mobile will enable it to increase this number to 13,000 within two years.

Tags: 3g, femtocell, network sharing, evolution

[29 Feb 2008]

Carbon Nanotube Bumps for Thermal and Electric Conduction in Transistor

whitepaper This paper describes the CNT bumps that have been recently developed for transferring heat and electrically connecting the source, gate, and drain of the high-power, flip-chip amplifiers of mobile communication base stations.

Tags: semiconductor tech. - manufacturing

[14 Feb 2008]

Vodafone explores femtocell potential?

News Vodafone is testing femtocell technology, which involves mini base stations being installed in homes and small offices to improve indoor 3G coverage. Five mobile trends to watch… What's the mobile world got in store for 2008?

Tags: vodafone, mobile, femtocell, operators

[28 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08

Round-Up The iPhone now features a redesigned Maps application that uses wi-fi and cellular base stations to triangulate a user's current location. And so another Macworld has passed us by and Mac fans and news rooms are a-twitter with talk of the latest...

Tags: iphone, mac, apple, macworld

[18 Jan 2008]

T-Mobile cosies up to femtocells…

News Femtocells are small cellular base stations that make us of DSL to boost signal coverage indoors. Analysts have talked up their potential as a way of ramping up 3G network coverage without the crippling costs associated with doubling or tripling...

Tags: 3g, femtocell, t-mobile

[17 Jan 2008]

iPhone gets location savvy

News The redesigned Maps application uses wi-fi and cellular base stations to triangulate a user's current location. Apple has released a software update for the iPhone which puts fresh focus on location-based services.

Tags: iphone, maps, location-based services, location

[16 Jan 2008]

Impact of Soft Handoff on TCP Throughput Over CDMA Wireless Cellular Networks

whitepaper In CDMA cellular networks, the soft handoff technique allows a mobile host to communicate with multiple base stations simultaneously, improving the transmission quality of the wireless channel and avoiding disconnection upon to base station...

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

A Multi-Layer IP Security Protocol for TCP Performance Enhancement in Wireless Networks

whitepaper It allows wireless network operators or service providers to grant base stations or wireless routers limited and controllable access to the TCP headers for performance enhancement purposes. TCP Performance Enhancement Proxy (TCP PEP) mechanisms...

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

Reliable W-CDMA Network Design

whitepaper The model simultaneously determines which customer locations to service, where to build base stations and mobile switching centers, and how to connect the towers to switching centers and switching centers to the public switched telephone network...

Tags: network design

[11 Jan 2008]

The Time Division Duplex: Mode in the UMTS

whitepaper An RNS is further divided into the Radio Network Controller (RNC) and multiple Node Bs, also known as Base Stations (BSs). The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a standardization body for 3G mobile radio systems, also known as the...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[07 Jan 2008]

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