Alliances: New consortium formed to address mobile broadband

A new consortium funded by the European Commission has been formed to work toward increasing mobile broadband infrastructure capacity density. The Beyond Next-Generation Mobile Broadband consortium is organized under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The goal of the group is to increase capacity density to 1 Gigabit per second per square kilometer. Alvarion’s chief technology officer, Dr. Ze’ev Roth, will serve as the consortium’s project coordinator. Other consortium members include Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (Spain), Cobham Antenna Systems, Microwave Antennas (UK), University of York (UK), Thales Communications S.A. (France), Universit