LTE World Summit, 17th - 20th November 2008, London, UK — CommAgility and Axis Network Technology have announced that they are working together to develop solutions for WiMAX and LTE (Long Term Evolution of 3GPP) baseband processing for wireless basestations. At the LTE World Summit (www.lteconference.com) in London, the two companies are demonstrating the interoperability of AxisNT's Remote Radio Head (RRH) with CommAgility's AMC-3C87F signal processing board.
The fully working demonstration system shows data being generated on the CommAgility board, passed to the AxisNT RRH over CPRI and then output as a OFDMA modulated RF signal. This RF signal is then displayed on a spectrum analyser to show 8 W output power at 64 QAM meeting the ETS 302 544 spectral mask and stringent EVM specifications.
The AMC-3C87F provides a mix of DSP and FPGA processing power together with flexible, high bandwidth I/O connectivity. It includes three Texas Instruments TCI6487 multi-core DSPs running at 1 GHz and a Xilinx Virtex-5 SX95T FPGA. It provides a complete three sector WiMAX/LTE PHY capability on a single-width Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC).
AxisNT's integrated remote radio heads are available for a complete range of WiMAX and LTE applications. The company's patented amplifier technology enables its RRHs to provide market-leading uplink and downlink performance, which improves network coverage and capacity for its customers. The convection-cooled RRHs use substantially less power than traditional basestations, and can reduce the site CAPEX and OPEX of a wireless network by as much as 90 percent. This RRH technology is suitable for TDD and FDD mode.
According to Simon Mellor, CEO and co-founder of AxisNT, "The commercial success of Next Generation Networks will be crucially dependent on flexible radio systems that can deliver high power and high efficiency to minimise both OPEX and CAPEX."
For further information visit www.commagility.com or www.axisnt.com.
