The article was one month old but the reference to IDCC was for work done outside of MUOS..and goes back several years..with the reference to Pico cell. I should have been a little more specific in my original POST..
Involvement in 3G by CERDEC is part of a continuum with the organization’s extensive work in 2G, explained Ed Erskine, chief of the center’s Advanced Wireless Branch. “We have done a lot of work in deployable cellular, and we got it down to a transit case-sized network on the 2G side. We think we can do the same with 3G. In the future, we could even get the base station down in size to where it would sit on the back of a soldier: a manpack-sized network.
CERDEC’s 2G solution was used by the 10th Mountain Division in the Advanced Warfighting Experiment in 2001, at Fort Polk, LA. This used regular commercial handsets and a downsized, but full capability, 20W base station with a range of five to eight kilometers.
CERDEC has taken an interest in the Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) work on the Deployable Cellular Network (DCNet) initiative to look at 3G technologies. A Foreign Comparative Testing program, DCNet, is being examined as a potential solution for the Special Operations Forces Tactical Assured Connectivity System for use in austere environments. DCNet uses Ericsson UMTS 3G technology. This solution enables Piconode cell applications of 2 Mbps, micro cell applications of 384 Mbps and macro cell throughput of 144 Kbps and 64 Kbps.
“Our goal is to look at the various 3G waveforms and assess their capabilities,” Erskine said. “We partnered with SOCOM on the FCT because UMTS and wideband CDMA waveforms are going to be two of the primary 3G waveforms. That was the intent of our program, and SOCOM had similar interest in deploying cellular networks. We were able to partner up on that program.
“There are also some ongoing efforts with Qualcomm on CDMA 2000 along the lines of supporting WIN-T from the Army’s perspective. This is in order to act as the ‘honest broker,’ to identify the capabilities of the waveforms and what they can bring to the tactical warfighter. We have also worked with InterDigital, which has a time-division duplex version of a 3G waveform. The Ericsson system we have used is a frequency division duplex solution. I would classify the InterDigital network as more of a proof-of-concept system. What we are getting from Qualcomm and Ericsson are commercial networks.”
You are reading from 2 year old news
Actually the "proof of concept" quote came from an article written only one month ago:
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