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WiMAX experience drives multi-mode innovation at Canada's Wavesat
Mobile WiMAX, Wi-Fi, and XG-PHS can co-exist in a single multi-mode chipset called Odyssey.
Wavesat today introduced its new family of Broadband Wireless chipset named Odyssey, with a multi-mode architecture enabling WiMAX Wave2, Wi-Fi, XG-PHS and migration capabilities to future technologies such as LTE.
The first product in the Odyssey family, the Odyssey 8500, is powered by a multi-core 4G architecture incorporating multiple ultra low power DSPs. This combination is designed to minimize tradeoffs associated with flexibility, performance and consumption. The system on a chip (SoC) design uses Embedded DRAM technology requiring no external memory. This saves space, cost and power consumption in very small form-factor portable and mobile applications. Wireless USB modems, mobile handsets and other consumer electronic devices benefit from these design goals.
Wavesat uses the term 4G to mean contemporary wireless protocols beyond third-generation cellular voice/data solutions. An official definition for 4G is being worked within the United Nations ITU committee, called IMT-Advanced. The final IMT-Advanced recommendations are targeted for services emerging in the 2012 timeframe and are expected to require 100 megabits per second (Mbps) performance under mobile conditions and up to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) speeds in stationary environments.
XG-PHS is the next-generation of Handyphone service in Japan and China. An estimated 100 million subscribers rely on the PHS system today. During the recent 2.5 GHz auctions, Japan PHS operator Willcom was awarded a nationwide license, pledging to introduce XG-PHS service in the spectrum during 2009.
The Odyssey 8500 chipset is sampling now with production quantities expected to ship by Q3 '08. A Model 9000 version that includes LTE support is underway for a 2009 introduction.
By Jeff Orr
ORR Technology, LLC
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