Site Advantage
Site Advantage Inc. introduced a snap-in cable hanger for coax cables. Features include a nose that provides holding strength while remaining easy to insert and a large gripping area to prevent unexpected pull outs. Indented fingers support corrugated coax cables. The ergonomically-designed hanger has 304 stainless steel construction offering corrosion resistance and strength. (888) 738-3238.
Allen Telecom
Lucent Technologies Inc. plans to refer selected customers of its new FLEXent wireless networks using Code Division Multiple Access base station equipment to Allen Telecom for potential incremental sales of BriteCell systems. FLEXent CDMA Private Networks enables carriers to cost-effectively create virtual private networks within their existing service areas. With VPNs, service providers can offer customized service and tiered pricing to facilities such as corporate centers, distribution centers, factories and college campuses. In-building distribution antennas like the BriteCell system can further extend coverage with radio-frequency distribution for public network services in locations such as airports, stadiums and shopping centers. BriteCell is compatible with Lucent’s macrocell and minicell base stations. (216) 349-8400.
Northern Telecom Ltd.
Nortel extended its Global System for Mobile communications portfolio with the PicoNode, an integrated network solution for small-capacity wireless applications, including fixed/mobile convergence in corporate environments and rural community deployments. PicoNode is a fully integrated radio and switching system. Its scalable architecture provides GSM mobile switching center, base station controller and base transceiver station functionality in a single cabinet. Network capacity can be increased using the same modular subsystem. PicoNode benefits include a single voice-mail box, dual ringing of fixed and mobile phones, the same abbreviated dialing plan as the company private branch exchange and free mobile-to-PBX calls in-building and across multiple buildings in a campus. The network solution offers interconnection to the public network in remote regions and areas where coverage was previously not economical. www.nortel.com.
Pulse Power Inc.
Pulse Power Inc. added the Pulse Power battery-charging system to its family of Negative Pulse Technology chargers that allows users to simultaneously charge multiple battery types on one platform. Pulse Power’s modular charger cups can be configured, on one platform and from one power source, to accommodate hundreds of two-way radio models, about 250 cellular phone models, laptop computer batteries, and any system using portable NiCD or NiMH batteries. The average charging time is about one hour, and the charger monitors temperature to avoid overcharging and maintains an optimum charge level indefinitely. Pulse Power technology continuously disperses gases from battery cell plates preventing “memory effect” caused by crystalline formation. The battery does not have to be fully discharged before starting the charge cycle, and it does not have to be fully charged before removing it from the charger. (800) 225-3404.
L.M. Ericsson
The Ericsson Travel Solution Kit includes a Portable Hands-free device, a Vehicle Rapid Charger and a Rapid Lightweight Travel Charger in a compact case that is compatible with a variety of Ericsson mobile phones. The Portable Handsfree product allows drivers to use both hands to drive. The Vehicle Rapid Charger continually charges the phone, even while it is in use, and allows users to receive incoming phone calls during the charging cycle. The Rapid Lightweight Travel Charger eliminates the need for transporting a separate charger and is powerful enough to fully recharge your phone battery in about one hour. Ericsson’s Travel Solutions Kit retails for approximately $139. (800) 374-2776.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. introduced a development tool that is designed to significantly cut design cycles and reduce development costs for any wireless system using TI’s single-chip Digital Baseband solution. The Wireless Hardware Emulation Tool can be used for digital cellular telephone handsets, base stations, wireless local loop systems, personal digital assistants and advanced pagers. The integrated digital signal processing solution combines the low-power processing engine of the TMS320C54x DSP core with a 16-bit/32-bit TMS470 microcontroller core based on the ARM7TDMI design. The TMS320C54x DSP core, with its 100 MIPS (million instructions per second) processing power, performs the high-speed DSP functions of wireless telephony such as speech encoding and decoding, error correction, channel encoding and decoding, equalization, demodulation and encryption. The 20 MIPS capabilities of the TMS470 (ARM7) core can be sued to control the system’s man-machine interface, real-time operating system, mobility and network management. (972) 644-5580.
Mobile Mark
Mobile Mark Communications Antennas expanded its line of directional antennas for industrial, scientific and medical applications at 2.4 GHz with a low-profile corner reflector antenna for point-to-point signal transfer. The new antenna feature 9 dBi gain with a front-to-back ration of 30 dB. Beamwidth coverage is 65 degrees horizontal and 75 degrees vertical. Multiple antennas can be combined for high-gain point-to-multipoint applications. The off-white antenna extends outward 2.5 inches from the mounting brackets, and each reflector panel measures 3 inches by 3 inches with a resulting front opening of 3 inches by 5.5 inches. The antenna for indoor and outdoor use can be mounted to a pipe with U-bolts or flush to a wall using special brackets that allow the angle to be adjusted for optimal line-of-sight connection. (847) 671-6690.
Yuasa Inc.
The Energy Products Group of Yuasa Inc. expanded its line of Horizon DC power plants with a new product configuration designed for cellular and personal communications services cell site applications. The new unit provides up to 800 amps of power within a relatively small footprint. The H24W600GU unit houses a complete power plant within a relay rack measuring 51 inches high by 23 inches wide. The rack is capable of holding an 800-amp battery disconnect assembly, as well as 800 amps of 24-volt rectification and 80 amps of -48 V power. The short rack design maximizes available floor space by allowing users to install the power plant on top of a string of batteries. Users can incorporate Yuasa’s DDH VRLA (valve-regulated lead-acid) battery to fit up to 625 Ah of capacity within the 23-inch rack, with available additional battery back-up via an optional adapter plate. All components of the new H24W600GU are completely front-accessible. (214) 652-4040.
Siemens AG
Siemens Semiconductors entered the high-end digital signal processing market, unveiling the new Carmel programmable DSP core. Siemens developed the Carmel architecture to target advanced consumer and communications applications, such as cellular phones, high-speed modems and multimedia products. Siemens’ fully licensable Carmel architecture is based on a flexible instruction set to allocate DSP power where it is needed for a specific applications. Carmel incorporates an enhanced Customized Long Instruction Word capability together with a modular, superscalar architecture to minimize the cost/performance tradeoff between superscalar and Very Long Instruction Word architectures that other high-end DSPs typically must make. By combining a standard instruction set with a user-programmable, customized instruction set, Carmel provides added flexibility and performance on the software side without requiring additional hardware accelerators. Carmel does 120 M MIPs (multiple millions of instructions per second) at 120 MHz and 2.5V and can perform up to 15 elementary operations in parallel multiplied by 120 millions of instructions per second. In specific application
s, it will be able to do 15 x 120 MIPS for 1,800 MOPS (mega operations
per second). The 16-bit, fixed-point Carmel core features a low-power design, a double arithmetic logic unit, a double multiply-accumulate module, a multiple-bus architecture for high-memory bandwidth, single-cycle simultaneous read-write access to data memories and up to 48 general-purpose addressing registers. Siemens expects to produce the first evaluation chip based on the Carmel architecture by the end of the third quarter. (408) 777-4909.
