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Vanu, Inc. And C-DOT Partner to Trial Vanu's Anywave Base Station in Rural Indian Market

Posted on: Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 09:00 CST

Vanu Software Radio Solution to Enable Wireless Communications in Rapidly Developing Market

Vanu, Inc., the leading developer of software radio solutions, and the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the premier telecom technology center of the Government of India, today announced their strategic partnership to trial the Vanu Anywave TM Software Radio GSM Base Station technology as an integral component in wireless access and broadband solutions for the Indian rural communication market. The partnership is focused on extending C-DOT's rural network infrastructure solution to provide wireless capability through Vanu's unique software radio approach to wireless communications. Initial trials will focus on GSM, yet future commercial deployments of the integrated solution will be focused on leveraging the multi-mode capability of the Anywave Base Station technology.

"India represents a substantial market opportunity for wireless infrastructure providers," said Vanu Bose, CEO of Vanu, Inc. "This partnership with C-DOT will provide tremendous value to Vanu, Inc. and will extend our presence into one of the world's largest wireless markets. We understand the needs of the rural market and have proven success in the US, while C-DOT has the track record for deploying and supporting rural landline systems in more than 30,000 Indian villages. This partnership will extend C-DOT's existing infrastructure and accelerate the deployment of the advanced wireless applications in India."

According to Vijay Madan, Executive Director of C-DOT, "C-DOT foresees the success of the partnership with Vanu and our joint ability to demonstrate this leading-edge software radio technology in the rural market deployment here in India. C-DOT has a particular focus on the development of cost-effective rural solutions and believes that Vanu's software radio approach is ideally suited to this opportunity due to its flexibility, ability to support multiple standards and remote management capabilities. This partnership in the future will enable development of low-cost, field proven rural solutions for users of C-DOT exchanges in other countries as well."

Currently, India is considered the fastest growing market for cellular adoption. According to Datacomm Research Company, wireless subscriber growth in India will more than double over the next 24 months as growth in China slows, illuminating the way for wireless expansion in other less-developed countries and rural areas.

Vanu's Anywave Base Station consists of a Base Station Transceiver (BTS) and a Base Station Controller (BSC), each a software radio application running on off-the-shelf components: a wideband transceiver, an analog-to-digital converter and an industry-standard server. The architecture is compatible with a range of rural backhaul transport options being developed by C-DOT. The solution, deployed in rural markets in the US, enables the cost-effective construction of base stations that can support multiple standards simultaneously, modify the RF planning and assignment of standards through remote software parameter changes and upgrade to new standards through a software-only download.

About Vanu, Inc.

Vanu, Inc. is the developer of the Anywave Base Station, the world's first U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-certified software radio. The Vanu software radio base station affords greater flexibility than traditional radios and offers wireless network operators the ability to lower CAPEX and OPEX and to use their spectrum more efficiently. Vanu applies modern software engineering techniques to the high-speed signal processing elements at the core of wireless devices to create portable software radio applications increasing the pace of innovation in wireless devices. Vanu licenses software radio components and applications and provides design-consulting services to wireless OEMs, system integrators and service providers. Vanu, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Cambridge, Mass. www.vanu.com

About C-DOT

C-DOT is a developer of cost effective switching, routing and transport network solutions. C-DOT's telecom technology solutions include IP/MPLS routers, next generation VoIP systems, Broadband Wireless Access Nodes, Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON), Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and satellite communication systems. C-DOT provides ATM systems for defense applications and its PSTN fixed line systems have been the cornerstone of telecom revolution in rural India. C-DOT was established in 1984 by the Government of India as a national center of excellence in telecom technology research. It was vested with full authority and total flexibility to develop state-of-the-art telecommunication technologies to meet needs of the Indian telecommunication networks. C-DOT is headquartered at New Delhi. www.cdot.com.

Source: Business Wire

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