Flarion secures $45m to challenge cdmd2000 and WCDMA technology

date: October 29, 2001

Flarion Technologies, the inventor of a breakthrough air interface technology for Internet Protocol (IP)-based mobile broadband networks, today announced it has received $45 Million in investment towards its Flarion which calls its technology fourth-generation, flash-OFDM technology.

Most wireless operators already have their 3G network migration plans mapped out, equipment vendor deals secured and business plans established. But volatile market conditions, technology delays and unclear spectrum plans might force some operators to demand alternative data solutions that are cheaper and more efficient than what they're currently using. Flarion Technologies wants to answer their call.

With Qualcomm pioneer Andrew Viterbi on its board, the two-year-old Lucent Technologies spinoff thinks it has a good shot at the evolving wireless data market with its flash-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, or OFDM, air interface. In fact, Flarion is touting its mobile Internet system as an alternative to network solutions currently being designed for 3G technology such as wideband CDMA, or WCDMA.

Flarion's system consists of the flash-OFDM air interface, standards-based end-to-end IP connectivity, RadioRouter base stations, wireless-user terminals and mobility management software.

Flash-OFDM is a wideband spread-spectrum technology that divides spectrum into a number of equally spaced tones or frequencies, which ensures there is no interference between users on the same cell. The company claims that the spectral efficiency of flash-OFDM is three times that of a 3G CDMA air link. Flarion believes IP ultimately will become the common denominator for data among different carriers, though it may not happen for the next five to seven years.

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