While industry is battening down the details of CDMA 450 MHz technology, IPWireless has brought UMTS technology into the spectrum battle.
Enter UMTS450 technology.
The company describes it as a complete high-speed packet-based data and voice solution designed for UMTS operators with access to spectrum in the 450 MHz band.
It will use IPWireless’ multi-chip-rate technology to support three separate chip rates, 1.28 million chips per second (Mcps), 2.56 Mcps and 3.84 Mcps.
The vendor said it will leverage its TD-CDMA baseband chipset with High-Speed Downlink Packet Access for its UMTS Time Division Duplex solutions for the IMT2000 TDD bands, which include 1900 MHz, 2010 MHz and 2500 MHz, as well as the 3400 MHz band.
The technology player said the devices will be low cost and will use the same devices available in the 450 MHz band, including plug-and-play broadband modems, integrated residential gateways, PC cards, VoIP integrated access devices and Voice over Internet Protocol handsets.
Dual-band devices will allow roaming and hand-off with other UMTS bands, said the company.
“UMTS 450 will support the same range of services as these existing bands including mobile, portable and stationary broadband data and voice services as these, while fully taking advantage of the improved coverage capabilities of the 450 MHz band,” said IPWireless.
