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JDSU Gets Agilent's Solutions Unit

on February 12, 2010   |   1 comment



JDSU has signed an agreement to acquire Agilent’s network solutions unit. The price of the purchase was $165 million in cash. The transaction is expected to be completed in June. The unit recorded annual revenue of $162 million in its latest fiscal year, and measures and tests both WiMax and LTE technologies.

“This acquisition establishes JDSU as a market leader in wireless test instruments and systems and enables us to provide customers with new innovative LTE solutions as they deploy this next-generation mobile data technology,” said Tom Waechter, JDSU president and CEO. “JDSU gains market-leading technology and a talented employee team that will fit well with JDSU’s customer-centric culture.” The Agilent unit has about 700 employees in facilities in Colorado, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Beijing.

The unit’s protocol analyzers get used for lab and field testing by networking equipment manufacturers and wireless carriers. The applications for testing vary, from integration and interoperability testing to field trial applications and troubleshooting. Agilent E6474A drive test network platforms are used by carriers to measure performance of several wireless technologies.

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Beceem Taps MIPS Technologies' Processor Cores

on February 10, 2010  



MIPS Technologies just announced that Beceem, a leading provider of 4G Mobile WiMax chips, licensed its MIPS32 4KEc synthesizable processor core for next-generation wireless networking products.

MIPS is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications, and business applications. Beceem is the 4G market leader, reportedly accounting for roughly 64% of the total market and already leveraging MIPS cores in its industry-leading Mobile WiMax chips.

Based on market research firm In-Stat, it is expected that WiMax chipset revenue will grow from $127 million in 2009 to $532 million in 2013. The entire WiMax market is being spurred on by new applications including smart grids, mobile hotspots, and soon to be launched WiMax-enabled phones.

“We have led the 4G Mobile WiMax ship market since the first deployment in Korea in 2005 and continue to provide the highest performance products in the industry,” said Lars Johnsson, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Beceem. “Beceem’s chips are the benchmark for WiMax devices in terms of performance, funtionality and feature integration, and we are excited to continue to leverage MIPS Technologies’ low power, high-performance processor cores and ecosystem to further extend leadership in the mobile broadband semiconductor market.”

The 4KEc gives MIPS licensees the flexibility to optimize applications for performance, size or power consumption, important considerations in WiMax designs that need real-time performance with minimal battery usage. Licesnsees of the 4KEc core are broadly supported by a software ecosystem of operating systems, middleware, algorithms, and tools for embedded applications, including wireless networking, where the MIPS architecture has long been a leader.… Read the rest

New 'White-Fi' Turning Heads

on February 1, 2010  



Empty fragments scattered between used spectrum, dubbed ‘White Space’ can be used for offering long-range, low-cost wireless broadband without causing interference to existing users. Just last October, Microsoft executives met with officials of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to demonstrate how this ‘white space’ can be used to provide broadband services at a fraction of the cost incurred by existing players. Researchers at Redmond have been working with this technology for over two years and believe that it has the potential to be a game changer.

Analysts have said that only a very small percentage of the existing air waves are being utilized and yet operators face a severe crunch in spectrum due to a legacy of distribution and utilization. Microsoft has developed a platform that will dynamically scan the air waves and transmit data using the white space in spectrum. Though it is similar to Wi-Fi, ‘White-Fi’ supporters claim that their technology offers a far wider range and higher throughput.

“White-Fi is much more powerful than existing Wi-Fi networks and much more cost-effective than other broadband technologies such as WiMax. If a Wi-Fi network can transmit data through 200 feet, White-Fi can take it over 2km,” said Paul Mitchell, General Manager of Microsoft Corp.

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