US :  RadioFrame Networks announced the commercial availability of the OmniRadio microchip processor. This chip is the world’s first silicon solution designed exclusively to meet the high performance and low cost requirements of the rapidly emerging Femto cell market.

Inset shows the Executive team at  RadioFrame Networks Left to right : Rick Applegate, Jeff Brown, ( Greg Veintimilla qouted below ) and Elliott Hoole

Today, Femto cells are quickly changing the way wireless networks are expanded by providing coverage, capacity and billing uniqueness to residential and business users. The Femto cell market is growing dramatically with industry experts predicting more than 100 million Femto cell users by 2011. RadioFrame Networks’ announcement of commercially available silicon designed specifically for Femto cell use is expected to accelerate wide scale user adoption by creating greater cost efficiencies for wireless network operators.

“We designed the OmniRadio processor to meet very specific performance and cost targets,” said Greg Veintimilla, RadioFrame Vice President of Engineering. “This processor brings to reality the RadioFrame vision of a high capacity base station serving both 2G and 3G users at a low cost.”

As RadioFrame examined the wireless market in early 2006, the company identified a need for extremely low cost base stations. When RFN looked at the available silicon solutions, all of which had been designed to meet broad range market solutions, it determined it would be impossible to meet necessary cost targets.

“It was worth taking the risk to design and bring to market our specific silicon solution because of the cost advantage that would be created and the opportunity it would allow to set in motion broad adoption of Femto cells throughout the wireless industry,” continued Veintimilla. “Through our terrific partnership with Faraday Systems, a global leader in silicon IP and fabless ASIC services, this is exactly what is happening.”

“The OmniRadio Processor is the heart of our unique GSM and WCDMA Femto Cell offering,” said Rick Applegate, RadioFrame Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “As the market for these offerings has matured, we have been encouraged to see the need for this high performance develop. In fact, a low cost solution is more important now than ever.”

The OmniRadio Processor is the key component of the OmniRadio System that creates a low cost Femto Cell. RadioFrame has already developed important software for the other parts of the system that feature plug-and-play connectivity and “flattened” network architectures to meet significant scaling requirements. RFN has active programs in place to deliver best in carrier class solutions to meet these needs.