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Vanu to Demonstrate the Industry's First Multi-Mode Software Radio Base Station at CTIA

Posted on: Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 09:00 CDT

Vanu, Inc. announces at the CTIA Wireless show that it will be demonstrating the industry's first multi-mode software radio base station capable of simultaneously running GSM, iDEN and CDMA on industry standard computing platforms. At last year's CTIA show, Vanu announced commercial availability of the Anywave(TM) GSM Base Station, the first FCC-certified software radio. The Anywave multi-mode base station is able to support additional waveforms by simply downloading software to the existing platform; no new hardware is required.

"This is a very important milestone for Vanu," said John Winn, Vice President of Sales & Marketing. "Although there are near term benefits to deploying a single standard Anywave base station in the form of cost savings, the true promise of software radio is realized when we can deploy multi-mode infrastructure on a common hardware platform, which provides long term benefit and savings for our customers."

Adding support for new waveforms enables carriers to run multiple standards simultaneously on the same infrastructure and ease migration to future standards without the prospect of costly forklift upgrades. Vanu has deployed a number of Anywave software radio networks in North America for both commercial wireless carriers and government customers. Vanu's first commercial customer, Mid Tex Cellular of DeLeon, Texas, has deployed Anywave Base Stations at sites covering 8,000 square miles which deliver wireless service to over 4,000 GSM subscribers.

"I have been operating my GSM network using the Anywave base station product for almost one year and have seen significant advantages in the software radio approach," said Toney Prather, CEO of Mid Tex Cellular. "In addition to being able to easily transition my user base from TDMA to GSM, I am also now carrying significant GSM roaming traffic with national carriers. The availability of new waveforms on the Anywave platform, such as CDMA and iDEN, in addition to GSM, will help generate new sources of revenue while further amortizing my original investment."

Vanu offers the Anywave Base Station as a turnkey system fully implemented, tested and optimized for each deployment by the company's expert service professionals. Pricing is customized for each customer based upon the underlying hardware, network complexity and services required. General availability for the iDEN and CDMA modes of the Anywave system is targeted for Q4 2006.

About Vanu, Inc.

Vanu, Inc. is the developer of the Anywave(TM) Base Station, the world's first U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-certified software radio. The Anywave 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. The company licenses software radio components and applications and provides design-consulting services to wireless OEMs, system integrators and service providers. Vanu was founded in 1998 and is based in Cambridge, Mass. www.vanu.com

Source: Business Wire

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