Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
- previous news
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HSS offers low cost solution for next-generation networks
June 10, 2003
The slow pickup of 3G has forced many OEMs of wireless products to reduce
their R&D budgets, and many first-tier OEMs have migrated to open platforms
in order to reduce hardware/software development time and costs, according
to Anita Gupta, AVP Mobility of Delhi-based Hughes Software Systems (HSS).
Capitalizing on this opportunity, Hughes has bundled its software with
specialized hardware into pre-integrated systems on which OEMs build their
value-added applications.
Hughes partnered with Motorola and Interphase to build the industry's
first open-architecture radio network controller (RNC) solution, a major
component of a 3G wireless basestation. The hardware included Motorola's
MCP750 CompactPCI system controller card, MCPN765 PowerPC single-board
computer, and Interphase's intelligent OC-3/STM-1 interface card. Hughes
supplied the RNC software interfaces and the software frameworks for NodeB,
other network support nodes and home location register.
Hughes recently became the first protocol stack vendor to market 3GPP
Release 5 compliant software components - targeted at all-IP wireless
networks. Manoranjan Mohapatra, COO of Hughes, said, "NTT DoCoMo of Japan
is spearheading the thrust towards Release 5 networks, and OEMs are exploring
ways to meet these needs with reduced cost and stringent timelines." Lucent
Technologies recently announced that it will outsource the software development
and maintenance of selected wireless products to HSS, for which HSS will
set up a development facility in Nuremberg, Germany and expand its Bangalore
operations.
The Motorola-Hughes duo also targets the OEM market for pre-integrated
IP/ATM network infrastructure elements. They built a network processor-based
ATM switch with separate data/control planes controlled by general switch
management protocol (GSMP, developed by Hughes). A general-purpose processing
blade based on PowerPC architecture used GSMP to run the control plane,
while Motorola's packet processor resource board was used for switching.
The switch supports the PICMG 2.16 CompactPCI platform, which allows the
handling of IP, ATM or TDM. Likewise, GSMP can control label switches
like ATM, FR or MPLS.
Configurable Solutions
Meanwhile, HelloSoft of the US, which has an operation in Hyderabad,
announced a family of configurable wireless LAN solutions, including the
industry's first complete software implementation on the TI TMSC6416 DSP.
The HelloWLAN solution is fully customizable, allowing developers to specify
the hardware/software partitioning for their specific target platform.
The solution consists of the Physical Layer (PHY) and Protocols (MAC/LLC)
for the IEEE 802.11-series wireless LAN standards, and is available as
licensable IP for semiconductor vendors and OEMs. The HelloWLAN family
supports all Physical Layer standards (802.11b, a, g) and MAC/LLC standards
and extensions (802.11, 802.2, 802.11e, 802.11i).
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