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John Glossner
Sandbridge Technologies CTO & EVP. A fabless semiconductor company building SDR baseband processors.

May 2009

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Mobile Europe Interview with Axell CEO Ian Brown

May 29, 2009

Public safety and mission-critical business comms require excellent radio coverage, even in the toughest of environ-ments. Ian Brown, ceo of Axell Wireless, tells Keith Dyer about the role Axell is playing in meeting the needs of its customers Our digital repeater filter technology (sometimes referred to as SDR - Software Defined Radio) is the most advanced and [...]

Lexycom Technologies To Develop Software-Defined Multiband EVA Radio For NASA

May 29, 2009

Lexycom Technologies Inc., a Colorado manufacturer of software defined radios, has been awarded a Phase 2, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to develop a Software Defined Multiband EVA Radio. As a follow up to their NASA Phase 1 feasibility study, Lexycom Technologies Inc. will further expand its software [...]

Samsung Electronics joins IMEC research program on green radios

May 29, 2009

Leuven, Belgium – May 13, 2009 – Samsung Electronics today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IMEC to lay down their intent to collaborate on technologies for green radios. The research collaboration topics will include cognitive reconfigurable radio baseband and millimeter-wave wireless communications technologies. Building on its expertise in software-defined radios that support the major standards for wireless communications, [...]

CrestaTech Introduces Universal Broadband Receiver Technology for Region Free PCTV

May 29, 2009

New CrestaTV Technology Significantly Lowers Notebook Development Costs and Design Time; Enables Mass Market PCTV Capability SAN JOSE, CA, - CrestaTech™ plans to change the way people view TV on their PCs, whether they’re at home or on-the-go. CrestaTV™ Universal Broadband Receiver technology combines a programmable RF IC and software that will allow PCs to receive region [...]

Popular P25 Public Safety Waveform Ported to Spectrum’s Software Reconfigurable Radio

May 29, 2009

Bridging public safety and military networks BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA – (Marketwire - May 27, 2009) - Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima (TSX:VCM) (”Spectrum”), an advanced communications equipment supplier, announced today a partnership with Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) to port the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Project 25 (P25) public safety waveform to Spectrum’s flexCommTM SDR-4000 software reconfigurable [...]

Tektronix Re-invents Swept Spectrum Analysis

May 29, 2009

Industry-first Swept DPX™ and New Triggering Enhancements for RSA6000 Series Spectrum Analyzers BEAVERTON, Ore., May 26, 2009– Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation announced significant enhancements for the RSA6000 Series spectrum analyzers. These latest hardware and software enhancements deliver unprecedented diagnostic capability and faster time-to-solution using industry-leading triggering technology and [...]

CEVA and mimoOn to Collaborate on Development of LTE Baseband Solutions

May 29, 2009

SAN JOSE, Calif. and DUISBURG, Germany, May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA), a leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores and mimoOn GmbH, a leader in software defined radio (SDR) solutions for advanced wireless standards, today announced a collaboration to offer mimoOn’s mi!MobilePHY™ advanced LTE software on CEVA’s [...]

CEVA and Aricent to Demonstrate LTE PHY Platform for Cellular Handsets at LTE World Summit 2009

May 18, 2009

BERLIN, May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –  CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA), a leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores and Aricent™, a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications, announced today that the companies will demonstrate a licensable IP platform for LTE baseband terminals based on a CEVA [...]

Contributors Mark Donahue Kevin Fitchard Carol Wilson VZW easing data caps, launching netbooks

May 14, 2009

Telephony Unfiltered reports Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ, NYSE:VOD) wants you to buy a wireless netbook. To entice you, it is easing up on its data usage restrictions. The CDMA operator today announced plans to offer the HP Mini 1151NR netbook with embedded 3G in stores, starting Sunday, and while it isn’t doing away with data caps [...]

ZTE is First to Pass Third-Party UE TD-LTE Test

May 14, 2009

First Company in the Industry to Support 20M Bandwidth 13 May 2009, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions today announced that it is the first company to successfully complete and pass the TD-LTE Phase I test [...]

Samsung Electronics joins IMEC research program on green radios

May 14, 2009

Leuven, Belgium – May 13, 2009 – Samsung Electronics today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IMEC to lay down their intent to collaborate on technologies for green radios. The research collaboration topics will include cognitive reconfigurable radio baseband and millimeter-wave wireless communications technologies. Building on its expertise in software-defined radios that support the major standards for wireless communications, [...]

América Móvil Launches World’s First SDR-enabled GSM/UMTS Converged Network Using Huawei’s SingleRAN Solution

May 14, 2009

[Panama, 11 May, 2009] Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (”Huawei”), a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, and América Móvil (AMX), the leading provider of wireless services in Latin America, today announced that América Móvil has launched the world’s first SDR (Software Defined Radio)-based GSM/UMTS converged network in Panama. The [...]

mimoOn demonstrates real-time end-to-end LTE on industry leading embedded processors

May 14, 2009

Duisburg, 12 May 2009: mimoOn GmbH, a leader in software defined radio solutions (SDR) for advanced wireless standards, today announced a demonstration of end-to-end LTE on the industry leading platforms of Cavium Networks and ARM Ltd. at LTE World Summit, Berlin, May 18-20, 2009. mimoOn’s advanced LTE software package mi!InfraSTACKTM runs on Cavium’s OCTEON MIPS64 multicore processor [...]