3G Software Defined Radio - Revolutionary New Wireless Network Solution Australian Company Well Positioned to Lead the Global 3G Charge
MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Communications Technologies (Australia) Pty Ltd (ACT Australia), developer of SpectruCell, the first multiple protocol (CDMA, GSM, 3G, UMTS) wireless Software Defined Radio (SDR) base station, and a leader in the field of SDR network solutions, today issued the following statement regarding the leading role the company's 3G SDR technology is positioned to play in the rapidly evolving global 3G marketplace. The Australian company is the affiliate of the US-based public company Advanced Communications Technologies Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ADVC - news).
CDMA PATENT FILINGS - SDR Platform
ACT Australia recently filed two patent applications related to the software implementation of CDMA (IS-95) and GSM on an SDR platform. The CDMA functionality was achieved without the use of Qualcomm chipsets or any other protocol specific hardware. The company believes its technology will by-pass 80% - 90% of Qualcomm's CDMA patents. Perhaps most importantly, successful patent filings may inhibit the global implementation of Qualcomm's WCDMA on an SDR platform. An additional 35 patents relating to the implementation GSM, UMTS, and 3G protocols on an SDR platform and the SpectruCell system design are in the process of being filed.
3G - ESTIMATED $200 BILLION WORLD MARKET
``Recent data indicates that for every 3G license awarded, $US150 million is added to the global market for 3G network infrastructure. In Europe and Asia alone, 80 new licenses are expected in 2001. In fact, Bo Hedfors, President of Motorola's network systems segment recently commented that they have valued the global 3G market at $US200 billion,'' said Roger May, Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Communications Technologies.
CRITICAL FACTOR - TIME TO MARKET
May continued: ``The critical issue for companies seeking to capitalize on this 3G potential will be time to market. David Mason, Ericsson's 3G marketing manager, recently stated that Ericsson will not have equipment for 3G spectrum available before 2004. While Alcatel and Samsung recently announced a joint venture with plans to provide 10-15% of the world infrastructure for 3G, there is no evidence they are not facing a similar situation.''
During a recent visit to the company's offices in Melbourne, Australia by senior executives from a world leading DSP manufacturer, discussions indicated that ACT AUS is 18 months to two years ahead of any other company in the development of software defined 3G network equipment and SDR technology.
SPECTRUCELL - 3G MARKET READY - 2001
``Advanced Communications Technologies (Australia) Pty Ltd will have the SpectruCell 3G ready multiple protocol software defined mobile base station in the market ready for type approval in carriers' model networks by late 2001. We believe the company will be first to market with a commercially viable 3G system that will support all global standards, as well as having a product providing a level of flexibility previously unheard of in mobile network base stations,'' said May.
Implementing SpectruCell will allow network providers to maintain service to their current 2G-customer base and preserve their existing infrastructure, while at the same time securing a highly flexible migration path for evolving 3G-based protocols on the same network.
SpectruCell achieves this functionality through eliminating the use of Qualcomm chipsets and any protocol specific hardware and by conducting all signal processing in software. This enables simultaneous processing of multiple mobile communications protocols (CDMA, WCDMA, UMTS, GSM & 3G) in the same base-station. Support for additional protocols is achieved on the same network structure with the addition of the appropriate software module.
``When 3G phones hit the market in 2001, SpectruCell will be there with network support regardless of whether they are CDMA2000, UMTS (FDD or TDD), LAS-CDMA, GPRS/EDGE compatible. Nokia, Ericsson and Qualcomm cannot offer this crucial support for simultaneous processing of multiple protocols,'' says May.
SPECTRUCELL - ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGES
``Reductions in time to market of up to 50% over standard base stations are expected with SpectruCell due to the fact that it is a software radio that allows anything from system refinement to total network reconfiguration at the stroke of a key.
``Equally importantly, SpectruCell's technical specifications place it in another league when compared to existing attempts at SDR base-stations. Airnet's AdaptaCell technology only has a 5Mhz front end, protocol specific hardware at both the RF and DSP stages and proprietary operating systems and interfaces. In contrast to the Airnet technology SpectruCell has a 25Mhz front end with no protocol specific hardware. By providing 400Mhz - 2.9Ghz front end frequency coverage SpectruCell can solve many of the issues created by the fact that the frequency band allocated for 3G service often varies from country to country,'' said May.
The SpectruCell base station has open architecture and is complemented by several other wireless technologies (1024QAM SEM, Smart Antennae) being developed by ACT AUS.
Says May, ``SpectruCell will also be uniquely positioned to deploy quality of service (QOS) based features for 3G through the use of dynamically assigned software modules. Examples are sacrificing call density to support high quality, or supporting multiple standards such as CDMA and GSM but altering the number of channels running in each 'on the fly,' according to demand.''
Perhaps most importantly the cost of the SpectruCell 3G network solution will be significantly less than that of current single protocol 2G systems.
STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS
Advanced Communications Technologies is presently developing alliances with companies such as Texas Instruments, Motorola, Analog Devices, Lucent, Mitsui, NEC and has recently entered into a co-development agreement with one of the largest internet/network infrastructure providers in the world.
Most recently the company entered into a co-development project with Chameleon Systems to produce a new base band modem card using the Chameleon reconfigurable processor. By incorporating the Chameleon technology into the SpectruCell processing sub-system it will dramatically increase the capacity of the system, especially for computationally intensive functions as required for implementation of WCDMA.
The USA based public company Advanced Communications Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ADVC - news) has exclusive rights to SpectruCell in the Americas and surrounding regions.
SOURCE: Advanced Communications Technologies Pty. Ltd.
