Mar 1, 2001 12:00 PM

New Products

Gas-Powered Generators

Meeting the need for gas-powered generator sets is the RZG line from Kohler Power Systems. Ranging in output from 30kW to 100kW, the gen sets feature General Motors Powertrain engines and are capable of operating on natural gas and liquid propane (LP).

Lightning Protection

Spinner North America offers a selection of gas-filled-tube and quarterwave-type solutions for base-station lightning protection. The devices are supplied in configurations including bulkhead, pigtail and in-line types with both N or 7 / 16 connectors.
www.spinnerna.com or 770-263-6326

Enhanced Memory Capabilities

To bring Internet functionality to your customers' handsets, you need Intel's flash data integrator (FDI) 3.0 software that provides 3G applications. FDI's application-programmers interface supports data streams for voice recording and downloads from a packet-data network.

The packet-data interface allows storage of downloaded data from packet protocols such as Bluetooth, GPRS and CDPD. The media-manager feature handles power-failure recovery and flash-data block wear leveling to increase cycling endurance and variable code and data partition sizes. Data is temporarily stored in a user-supplied buffer for real-time capture.

FDI then performs the flash write operation in the background to actually store the information in the flash.
www.developer.intel.com or 800-628-8686

Universal Wireless Web Access

Universal access to the Internet from wireless phones is possible with JZ Link's Automated Trans-coding on Markup Language (ATOMS). ATOMS reformats existing HTML Web pages so that they are presentable on the small displays of wireless devices. It then translates the reformatted HTML to WML and Voice XML, allowing Internet-enabled wireless phones to access all HTML pages.

A customization tool built into ATOMS enables users to select specific sections of the HTML page for display on the wireless device.

In addition, the company has introduced Voicer, which allows users to browse HTML pages by phone. Using voice or keypad commands, Voicer delivers the content to the display of the wireless device. Voicer brings Web audio to all wireless devices.
www.jzlink.com

Internet Access

For high-speed Internet connections on your customer's wireless devices, Swiftcomm from Mitsubishi Materials features two distinct network offerings: Swiftcomm N. (narrowband) offers a wider coverage area per base station and enables bit-error-free transmissions to users in dense metropolitan areas and when traveling at high speeds; Swiftcomm W. (wide-band) creates a computing environment with data speeds five times faster than 3G projections.

The narrowband offering provides nationwide coverage for SMS, text-to-voice conversion and voice-recognition applications. The Swiftcomm network is composed of base stations, servers and wireless devices, which perform IP-based routing functions.
www.swiftcomm.net

Diagnostics Monitor

Over-the-air (OTA) data logging and data-playback test solutions can be accomplished using the InfoDM v2.0 from Spirent Communications. The diagnostic tool provides logging, monitoring and control capability for CDMA handsets and terminals.

OTA message logging has been improved with the addition of a turbo-mode for high-volume logging, expanded message decoding and message bookmarking. The phone-status function shows real-time display of these parameters: finger energy, access/paging/layer2 message statistics, frame-error rate, call state and vocoder rates.

With the embedded tool-command-language interpreter, users can write automated and interactive test cases. The monitor's data-analysis capabilities offer a playback feature that allows graphical and tabular viewing and evaluation of logged CDMA data. The playback feature allows the data to be reviewed in a forward or reverse mode.
www.spirentcom.com or 800-927-2660

Dual-Polarized Antenna

For areas constrained by space issues or planning restrictions, Andrew's PerforMax dual-polarized antenna offers coverage in GSM 1800, PCS and 3G frequency bands and provides wideband performance over the 1.71GHz to 2.17GHz frequency band. It features a mechanical mount that provides continuous downtilt adjustment to 12 degrees. The antenna's wraparound radome can be painted to blend in with local surroundings.
www.andrew.com or 800-255-1479

Information Router

Providing customers with bi-directional access to e-mail, corporate databases and Web-based information from their mobile phones or other portable communications devices is possible with Xiam's information router suite. The router enables GSM-wireless-phone users to change and/or update the information on servers via SMS, and gives them the option of having messages read out to them upon receipt by a synthetic voice. The product's flexibility makes it possible to send back SMS commands, or to query databases and elicit a response remotely to a cellular phone. Its applications give users the capability to check bank balances, book a show, update in-house customer information or avert a systems failure using any mobile phone. Access is achieved via a Web interface, and users can configure their profiles without the use of special SIM cards in users' handsets.
www.xiam.com

Interactive M-Business Resource

The M-Business Navigator from Analysys guides you through the m-business market, allowing subscribers to: create personalized maps of company relationships; compile matrices of the types of products and services being offered; and view companies' performance measures such as revenues, profit and staff numbers.

It includes a fully searchable directory of 500 companies targeting the m-business market. It also provides insight into key issues affecting companies in the m-business market through a set of analytical papers.

The first series covers five topics: location-based services and technologies; co-opetition and repositioning in mobile portal markets; securing mobile transactions; the battle for ownership of mobile transactions; and the uncertainty in the wireless ASP market. The resource is available as an online subscription service and is updated on a quarterly basis.
www.analysys.com

Web-Browsing Handset

Web-surfing and instant messaging are two features of Audiovox's CDM-9100 tri-mode Web-browsing cellular phone. It comes equipped with the MSM-3100 chipset, a built-in Web-browser with two soft-touch keys for Internet navigation and T9 predictive text messaging. The multifunctional handset operates on the 800MHz CDMA, 1.9GHz CDMA and 1.9GHz PCS frequencies, and is available in three colors: champagne, ice blue and silver. It features 2-way SMS, e-mail notification, user-changeable display font, caller ID, vibrating alert, 10 1-touch dialing keys, emergency dialing and data capability.
www.audiovoxcomm.com

Hot-Swap Rectifiers

Compact rectifiers from Uni-power Telecom are hot-swappable and produce 50A at 54.4V (the 48V version) or 100A at 27.2V (the 24V version). The Ranger RRS Series modules are compact with 11W per cubic inch. At 3.5 inches high, they require only two mounting positions of rack space.

The modules have automatic load sharing, and integral O-ring diodes mean that the modules can be hot-swapped during system operation.
www.unipowertelecom.com or 954-346-2442.

Base Station

Advanced Communications Technologies and Platforms Wireless International have deployed an airborne version of SpectruCell, a software-defined radio base station for an aero-stat-based communications platform. It is designed to support multiple protocols including CDMA, GSM and future 3G applications that will allow carriers the ability to upgrade their existing networks without the addition of ground fiber.

By using the SpectruCell multiple-protocol base station, you'll be able to support all current and future protocols with the same equipment on the same network. Although it has been designed as a network solution that uses spectrum-efficient point-to-point radio as the main link between cell sites and switching centers, it also supports transmissions between the cells using fiber optic and standard microwave links.

The system provides functionality for the TDMA communications protocol; however, the software-defined-radio platform of Spectru-Cell enables the airborne-relay communications system to process multiple protocols by adding protocol-specific software modules. SpectruCell also allows for the provision of advanced wireless communications services without specific protocol limitations, facilitating the penetration and expansion of rural, emerging-nation and under-served global markets without existing land-based infrastructure.
www.act-usa.net or www.plfm.com

GPRS Product

High-speed data transmission, videoconferencing, wireless Internet and m-commerce capabilities are driving next-generation services. Tecore's AirCore GPRS HLR platform can be integrated into existing GSM switching platforms as well as be used as a standalone product in GPRS/GSM networks. Key features include support of multiple data profiles per subscriber and scaleability from 100 subscribers to 1 million subscribers.
www.tecore.com

GPS Solutions

SnapTrack's SnapCore provides accurate location information for wireless products used both inside and outside of wireless network coverage, and supports location-service infrastructure implementations.

The solution offers three different modes of operation SmartServer mode, ThinServer mode and Autonomous GPS mode combining the company's WAG architecture with stand-alone GPS functionality. It enables on-demand location services, such as emergency-location safety features and mobile Yellow Pages in any network configuration or signal environment.

By leveraging the company's algorithms for multipath mitigation, sensitivity enhancement and fast response time, and combining this with GPS-processing techniques and a parallel GPS signal-processing engine, SnapCore provides GPS acquisition speed and sensitivity while minimizing cost, space and power. Key features include fault detection and isolation for improved accuracy and advanced processing techniques that provide cold-start times in all modes.

The technology's Location on Demand feature ensures a caller's privacy. Its neutral air interface is applicable in any 2-way wireless system: cellular/PCS or paging; 800MHz to 900MHz or 1.8GHz to 1.9GHz; GSM, CDMA, TDMA or 3G.
www.snaptrack.com

DeLorme's Earthmate Road Warrior Edition is designed for users of Handspring's Visor and Visor Prism portable devices for real-time GPS navigation on detailed street-level maps. Solus Pro application software allows users to download searchable vector maps and route directions online through the DeLorme Souls MapMaker site or from the Street Atlas USA Road Warrior Edition software.

Users have immediate access to a set of mapping and location features, allowing them to monitor speed, direction of travel, latitude/longitude and elevation when tracking with the 12-channel Earthmate GPS receiver.

Users also are able to locate individual addresses or specific points of interest by city, state or zip code or download maps and route directions wirelessly on Web-enabled devices with purchase of the company's online data service.
www.delorme.com