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News Release from: LitePoint Corp | Subject: IQmax MIMO system
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 September 2007
WiMAX solution meets new demands
The IQmax MIMO solution helps users achieve greater coverage, lower power consumption and more efficient spectrum and bandwidth utilisation.
LitePoint has released the IQmax MIMO system, aimed at WiMAX devices with Wave 2 functionality The mobility adjuncts to the current WiMAX standard (IEEEstandard 802.16e-2005) require capabilities beyond those of earlier versions, and LitePoint's new system meets these needs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Aug 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The current WiMAX mobile radio interface uses scalable orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (SOFDMA) and supports multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications technology.
The result is greater coverage, lower power consumption, and more efficient spectrum and bandwidth utilisation.
"As ODMs and OEMs race to provide wireless device companies with the latest WiMAX capabilities, they need test solutions that give them a development edge, and solutions that provide product-quality advantages", said Onno Harms, LitePoint's WiMAX Product Manager.
"With the new IQmax MIMO system, they have both".
LitePoint's new system uses a common-platform approach that covers product development through product QA.
The IQmax MIMO solution combines multiple IQmax-500 hardware units with the latest version of IQsignal software.
Both have been updated to include the new MIMO requirements.
A basic system includes a pair of IQmax-500s plus a new synchronising unit along with IQsignal, creating a 2x2 configuration.
It can be expanded with up to two more IQmax-500s to implement a 4x4 set up.
Along with the introduction of IQmax MIMO, LitePoint is also introducing IQwave for WiMAX software.
Used in conjunction with IQmax, IQwave can create arbitrary WiMAX waveforms which in turn generate actual baseband or RF signals after being loaded into the IQmax' vector signal generator (VSG).
IQwave can generate fixed or mobile WiMAX waveforms for both single input/single output (SISO) and MIMO testing.
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