
Above
shows Stan Boland, President and CEO of Icera with the Livanto™
ICE8020 wireless soft modem IC - the heart of the Adaptive Wireless™
HSDPA Datacard platform.
Europe
UK : Icera announced availability of its first Adaptive Wireless™
HSDPA Datacard Platform, which is enabling cellular datacard vendors
to be first to market with next generation 3GPP Release 5 multimode
HSDPA products. The platform supports Adaptive Wireless™ software
delivering peak data-rates of 3.6Mbps and is fully scalable to 7.2Mbps
and HSUPA – without hardware change.
Stan
Boland, President & CEO of Icera said: “The availability
of HSDPA terminals is probably the most pressing requirement for all
global operators today and our first announced platform fully meets
their requirements and will scale to meet their future upgrades. Supporting
3.6Mbps user data rates, our Adaptive Wireless™ advanced receiver
and diversity software capability will deliver dramatically improved
user data rates and network capacity over early 1.8Mbps prototype
solutions.”
Commenting
on the announcement, Michael Thelander, Principal Analyst at Signals
Research Group, LLC, an independent research consultancy, and author
of the Signals Ahead research newsletter, said: “3G operators
are placing a very high premium on HSDPA and HSUPA, which we believe
will drive the widespread adoption of these technologies even more
so than we first envisioned. Within four years, HSDPA could represent
more than 70% of the entire 3G market, and account for over 200M devices.”
He further added, “With a fully-functional 3.6Mbps platform
available today that features a software-only upgrade to 7.2Mbps,
Icera is positioning itself to be a leading supplier of HSDPA. In
this market, Icera is definitely a company to watch.”
The
Adaptive Wireless™ HSDPA Datacard Platform is unique in supporting
the software implementation of an advanced set of physical layer algorithms,
which constantly monitor wireless channel conditions and dynamically
adapt to guarantee the highest level of performance at all times.
The Icera platform is the first to fully support an advanced receiver
that features more complex receive path signal processing plus dual
antenna receive diversity. As a result, a typical user might see a
trebling in actual data rates compared to conventional solutions.
Built
around the Icera Livanto™ ICE8020 device, the Adaptive Wireless
HSDPA Datacard Platform has an extremely small board area and low
power consumption, allowing it to support emerging embedded laptop
form-factors, such as PCIe Mini-Card and PCIe Express Card, as well
as the more conventional PCMCIA.
The
Icera platform design is complemented by proven products from other
industry leaders, including TTPCom’s HSDPA dual mode protocol
stack and Infineon’s UMTS RF solution.
Icera
is scheduled to provide customers with fast upgrades to higher HSDPA
categories, including 7.2Mbps, and is set to be one of the first companies
offering the latest enhanced uplink data rates, often referred to
as HSUPA. Icera’s advantage is that these are software deliverables
and require no hardware changes to implement.
About
Icera:
Icera is
the leader in wireless soft modem devices and supports mobile terminal
and datacard OEMs with the highest performance HSDPA through a range
of platform solutions. Founded in 2002, Icera is headquartered in
the UK, with design locations in the UK and France, sales offices
in Europe and Japan and representative support in Korea.