PA Consulting Group, a leading international management, systems and technology consultancy, will be demonstrating its all-software baseband solution for wideband CDMA base stations at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes (17 to 21 February 2003 - Hall 2, Stand G57).
The demonstration will be supported by a paper ‘All-software base station solutions’ given by Alan Carr, a member of PA’s Management Group, on Monday 17 February, at 16.45pm, as part of Wireless Access Track B.
This is the world’s first all-software baseband for W-CDMA base stations. It will enable future base stations to be less expensive, much more flexible and able to offer a better performance compared with conventional solutions. The technology is available to base station manufacturers wishing to develop advanced differentiated base station products to capitalize on the rapidly growing worldwide market for 3G infrastructure.
The baseband section is the core part of a 3G base station. Until now, the high volume of processing involved has required complex hardware and software design solutions, resulting in high costs, inflexibility to change and restrictions in performance. This is a serious problem because the base station is the most numerous and costly part of 3G networks due for deployment around the world over the next few years, and base stations also have a critical impact on end-to-end system performance.
PA's innovative solution is to provide W-CDMA functionality in software, and use general-purpose DSP processors in place of specialized electronic hardware. This cuts costs both during development and in production, and also allows changes to functionality by down-loading new software remotely. Processing can be tuned to suit individual users, and the solution integrates easily with different base station designs, ranging from large macro cell base stations to compact pico cell systems.
Through its wireless technology expertise PA Consulting Group is the leading supplier of end-to-end solutions for the wireless industry. PA’s technology-led consultancy solutions for 3G operators range from strategy development and business planning through to services creation, network design and rollout management. PA supports vendors directly through the provision of contract design of infrastructure and handset products, marketing and bidding support and infrastructure element design.
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