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News Release from: Agere Systems
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Team on 01 March 2004
Agere joins basestation initiative
Agere Systems has joined the global Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI).
Agere Systems has joined the global Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) Agere plans to support the organisation with its wealth of world-class basestation components as well as decades of experience and systems expertise
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Agere, one of the world's top communications infrastructure integrated circuit (IC) suppliers, offers many critical technologies and components for wireless basestations.
These include very high-performance digital signal processors (DSPs), RF power transistors, world-leading traffic management silicon and highly sophisticated serialiser/deserialiser (serdes) "macros" that are available to all of the OEMs that Agere serves with custom silicon.
"We certainly welcome Agere to OBSAI at this important juncture.
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We have finalised the key interface specifications, and all of the promoter and supporter companies, including Agere, are busy engaging with our mutual partners and customers", said Jukka Klemettila, Chairperson of OBSAI.
"I'm especially pleased at how quickly we've accomplished many of our goals and the level of co-operation I see under the OBSAI umbrella.
Operators and mobile broadband users are sure to benefit".
Most importantly to OEMs searching for the key interface silicon they need, Agere has a fully validated and tested serdes that is 100% compliant to the newly ratified OBSAI Reference Point 3 radio interface specification.
Agere has one of the broadest portfolios of serdes and high-speed interface technology in the industry and extensive experience integrating these serdes into SoCs.
Agere's interface portfolio supports speeds from 155Mbit/s to 10Gbit/s and offers integration into SoCs compliant with standards including 1, 2 and 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 1.5 and 3Gbit/s SATA and SAS, SCSI, PCI, PCI-X, PCI-X 2.0, PCI Express, SPI-3/4/5, SFI-4, serial RapidIO and XAUI.
OBSAI was formed among leading basestation vendors and module and component manufacturers to create a set of open specifications for basestation architecture.
By defining a basic modular architecture and the detailed specifications for the internal interfaces between modules, OBSAI aims to create a market for cellular basestations that will substantially reduce the development effort and costs that have been traditionally associated with creating new basestation products.
Not only will wireless operators benefit from greater competition among basestation vendors, OBSAI promoters say, but they will also have the opportunity to bring new and advanced services to market earlier.
"OBSAI is a potentially elegant and low-cost solution for multi-standard BTS solutions", said Mike Elser of Agere's Networking IC Division.
"Agere's system-on-chip (SoC) integration expertise with our OBSAI-compliant serdes and widely-deployed DSP intellectual property will help us to provide solutions to our customers that allow them to deploy wireless broadband systems faster".
Over 75 companies have joined OBSAI to deploy next-generation wireless broadband earlier and at less cost than would otherwise be possible.
"More basestations worldwide are powered by Agere's DSPs than any other DSP on the market", said Will Strauss, Principal Analyst at DSP market research firm Forward Concepts in Scottsdale, Arizona.
"And my just completed 2003 wireless infrastructure DSP research shows Agere at number one again.
I have to believe the OBSAI community will benefit from Agere's participation".
Agere also offers RF power transistors for every wireless frequency and protocol.
This critical and highly advanced basestation power amplifier technology has been chosen by such top global OEMs as NEC and Sewon Teletech.
Several Agere patented and patent-pending manufacturing and circuit design innovations make these products among the best in gain, linearity and thermal efficiency.
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