Lucent enhances base-station technology
(Telephony) Lucent Technologies announced enhancements to its third-generation base-station platform designed to increase performance and capacity while providing long-term investment protection for UMTS and cdma2000 carriers.
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Lucent said its 3G-ready Flexent OneBTS base station will incorporate intelligent antenna technology and BLAST (Bell Labs Layered Space and Time) technology, along with power amplifiers.
"We've licked the cost factor by integrating intelligent antennas in the base station platform," said Paul Mankiewich, vice president and chief technical officer for Lucent's wireless business.
Lucent said intelligent antennas can improve network coverage by as much as 70% or data throughput capacity by 100%. BLAST technology, developed by Lucent's research and development arm, is an advanced intelligent antenna technology innovation that allows the capacity of a given frequency band to increase proportionally to the number of antennas. Bell Labs researchers have shown that BLAST can improve network coverage by up to 300% in a typical configuration.
Lucent's intelligent antenna technology is also under consideration for standardization in the cdma2000 and UMTS camps.
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