Interphase 4G Wireless: LTE & WiMAX

The live over-the-air LTE eNodeB demo was
a success @ Mobile World Congress 2011
& @ CTIA Wireless 2011!

The Interphase application-ready LTE embedded eNodeB Module garnered significant interest in its live Development System configuration in both the Mindspeed and Continuous Computing booths. Now you can see it in this video.

Live LTE eNodeB Demonstration at MWC 2011

Interphase 4G Wireless offerings include our:

application-ready 4G embedded base station modules for eNodeBs across the range of base station capacities
packet processors to augment processing for 4G application such as eNodeB and Evolved Packet Core (EPC), Serving Gateway, Packet Data Network Gateway, and Mobility Management Entity
interworking gateways to bridge between the 4G and existing mobile networks
LTE eNodeB Development System with pre-integrated hardware and software elements for convenient lab set up

4G Application-Ready Embedded Base Station Module

The huge increase in demand for broadband data access everywhere puts the responsibility on service providers to meet that bandwidth demand. The eNodeB embedded module from Interphase enables them to efficiently meet market demand while providing both CAPEX and OPEX savings over current base station technology, through low power requirements and flexible, compact configuration and space requirements.

For equipment providers, the Interphase eNodeB module provides the advantage of a pre-integrated hardware/software/services model, which comes ready to integrate with a radio and application software. The module has also been pre-integrated with the self-organizing network (eSON) solutions from Airhop and the tunable radio frequency (RF) module from Signalion. This lets equipment providers focus on application development and accelerate LTE base station design and development, to get value-add compact base stations to market more quickly.

Integrated hardware and software addressing LTE Layers 1-3
Integrated 3rd-generation iWARE management tools
iWARE application interfaces (APIs)
Common hardware solutions for LTE and WiMAX
Multiple clocking options including GPS, Synchronous Ethernet, IEEE 1588
Interoperability with a number of EPC providers
Support for emerging standards
Available in a pre-integrated development system

The fully-compliant LTE software and the iWARE APIs allow equipment providers' LTE applications to function independent of the underlying specific hardware configurations and capacities, so the application software can be used to enable products across a range of cell markets: eNodeB macrocell, microcell, picocell, and enterprise femtocell. Interphase brings extensive wireless design and manufacturing experience to every project, enabling module-based eNodeBs to take form as:

Integrated RF & baseband on a single custom module
Embedded baseband modules in base station appliances
Integrated into remote radio head
Standard form factors such as AMC, PCIe, etc. (see COTS models iSPAN 36701 and iSPAN 36702)
Compact, scalable MicroTCA base stations
Unique configurations to customer specifications

Packet Processing Solutions for Wireless Applications

In some solutions, additional packet processing power will be required to augment the eNodeB or to support EPC functions. Interphase offers a portfolio of packet processor modules.

Interworking Gateway Solutions for Wireless Applications

Interphase also offers a number of products that can be used to build interworking gateways to bridge between LTE and the existing mobile networks:

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