New Products

Pager Accessories Motorola's leather Pager Purses are designed for women who use pagers, but require more carrying options. These accessories offer women an alternative to traditional holsters and chains that are worn on belts or hung from pockets. The purses are designed with rounded edges in a contemporary style and feature separate compartments that will accommodate pagers as well as a few other basic essentials. Options include an over-the-shoulder pager purse or a wallet pager purse. The shoulder purse has a snap closure and a strap for comfortable carrying. The wallet pager purse includes a special pager compartment with a see-through plastic cover that allows users to read the pager's display screen without removing it from the purse. The wallet-style accessory also includes a clip-on strap for easy carrying.

For information, visit the web site at www.motorola.com/pagers.

Digital RF Signal Generators Hewlett-Packard's digital RF signal generators provide flexibility to simulate new, developing or existing modulation formats. The options include the addition of CDMA and TDMA standards, a bit-error-rate analyzer and a dual-arbitrary waveform generator. They allow your engineers to develop new systems, test existing system components and modify previously defined standards. The architecture supports analog or digital technology from 1GHz to 4GHz.

For information, visit the web site at www.hp.com/go/esg.

Base-Station Antenna The Mountaineer base-station antenna from Antenex provides freedom in mounting and a longer radial life. By moving a threaded plug from the top to the bottom, the Mountaineer antenna may be prepared for inverted mounting. The base-station antenna features flexible seals that solve weathering problems, an improved condensation drain system that permits inverted mounting, and a side-vent cap that allows for a narrower taper with lowered wind loading.

For information, visit the web site at www.antenex.com, or call 800-323-3757.

Signal Measurement/Analysis The IFR software package, jointly developed by Survey Technologies and IFR Systems, automates geographic signal measurement and analysis of signal coverage. Capable of measuring multiple frequencies during one project, this IFR software package saves you time and money evaluating the effects of changes made to your network.

For information, visit the web site at www.surveytech.com, or call 503-848-8500.

Protocol Analyzer Ameritec has introduced its IS-41B and IS-41C, SS7, and ISDN portable protocol analyzer called the AM841 digital network analyzer. The AM841 supports one signaling link from each of two PCM circuits. The product maintains comprehensive real-time statistics from layer 1 through layer 7 including such areas as basic PCM health, messaging traffic load, SS7 message counts, SCCP and TCAP reject and return error causes, and IS-41 message counts.

For information, visit the web site at www.ameritec.com, or call 626-915-5441.

Application Platform PulsePoint Communications' Internet-ready, open-system, enhanced application platform is de-signed for carrier-grade applications. The company also has introduced the PulsePoint communications-management suite of applications, the first of a modular set based on the Microsoft Windows NT Server operating system. The enhanced application platform is circuit- and Internet-ready, enabling circuit-based voice and fax mail, session-based e-mail, or all three -- fax, voice and e-mail.

For information, visit the web site at www.plpt.com, or call 805-566-2000.

Isolator/Circulator DiTom Microwave's isolator and circulator are designed to cover the 26GHz to 40GHz frequency range of wireless commercial communications applications including LMDS, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint microwave radio links. Both the isolator and the circulator are for designers developing modular assemblies destined for pole-top, masthead and pico-cell communications infrastructure locations.

For information, visit the web site at www.ditom.com, or call 408-727-1201. Timing System Clock The STS 5800 Timing System StarClock from Larus provides GPS Stratum 1 clock with Stratum 3E holdover performance. Larus StarClock is an extended temperature timing system that is designed for smaller installations and remote sites requiring timing without redundancy. Local and remote interfaces are available for network management, troubleshooting and performance report gathering.

For information, visit the web site at www.laruscorp.com, or call 800-999-9946.

Wireless Microcell Wireless Valley Communications' SitePlanner is an integrated prediction, measurement, planning and management system for wireless microcell applications. The system provides engineering analysis for system design and planning tasks. Users can relocate antennas, verify coverage, change transmit power levels and integrate real-time measurements with blueprints and models for accuracy and maintenance for system growth.

For information, visit the web site at www.wvcomm.com, or call 540-552-8324.

Voice-Quality Assessment Galaxy Engineering Services, a division of World Access, releases VQUAL 2.0, a proprietary voice-quality- assessment service. VQUAL is a component of the company's network performance benchmarking service called Competitive Positioning Analysis (CPA). Together, these services allow wireless service providers to objectively measure network performance for wireless technologies and to identify areas that need enhancement. The information gathered with CPA and VQUAL assists you in customer marketing, network planning and capital allocation decisions. VQUAL provides speech-quality measurements for the uplink and downlink of the voice path. The product measures voice quality according to how humans perceive sound, testing voice phrases with software models. During testing, voice-wave files can be archived and recorded for playback later by the user.

For information, call 770-751-8331.

Turnkey Wireless Networking Digital Wireless has introduced its family of turnkey wireless networking products. The HopNet products, which use frequency-hopping, spread-spectrum communications technology, provide everything required to install a high speed, multinode network: data modems and repeaters, Windows 95 configuration software, antennas, and accessories. The HopNet line features the following products: the HopNet wireless terminal modem/antenna; the HopNet wireless rugged base station/remote modem; the HopNet repeater; and accessories.

For information, call 770-564-5540.

Lucent has developed an enhanced software package that more accurately predicts wireless signal strengths, allowing you to provide maximum coverage and sound quality while avoiding the added expense of unnecessary base-station antennas.

The Wireless System Engineering (WISE) software package has been used to install wireless business systems in stores, hospitals, offices and warehouses. Enhancements have made it faster and more accurate than previous versions, allowing you now to predict and measure signal strength inside buildings and in urban settings.

"This is a much simpler model to find where to place antennas," said Reinaldo Valenzuela, head of the wireless communications research department of Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent. "Formerly carriers had to use vans, drive around and place the antennas to measure signal strength, go back and do adjustments, then start all over again as traffic changes. It was a very tedious task, very time consuming and very expensive."

For information, visit the web site at www.lucent.com.

Phones Dual-Mode The DigitalTalk MAX 3100 from NEC is a CDMA/AMPS 800MHz dual-mode phone that features caller ID, call forwarding, call waiting, 3-way conference calling, voice mail and short message service. The phone features 160 minutes of digital talk time with 48 hours of digital standby time. It also features 90 minutes of analog talk time with 23 hours of analog standby time.

For information, visit the web site at www.nec.com.

TDMA Cellular The MicroDigital M75 TDMA cellular phone from Motorola's Cellular Subscriber Sector offers TDMA digital phone service and capabilities and is Motorola's first phone to support short message service, a pager-like service feature with a "scrolling" display. With a touch of a button, users can review alphanumeric messages sent over the IS-136 digital cellular network. The phone also features sleep mode, increasing standby time. The MicroDigital M75 phone is compatible with Motorola's accessories, is data capable and supports the optional Motorola PCMCIA modem accessories.

For information, visit the web site at www.startac.com, or call 800-331-6456.

CDMA Nokia introduces a CDMA-based 1.9GHz digital phone, the Nokia 2170. The Nokia 2170 supports all digital features, including short message service, call forwarding, call waiting, caller ID and voice privacy. The phone can be personalized with 10 distinct ringing tones, VIP alert tones, colored face plates and multilanguage capabilities. The Nokia 2170 features a big-screen, 30-character, super-twist LCD display with permanent signal and battery-strength indicators and separate voice-mail and test-message-waiting indicators. The phone provides up to 90 minutes of talk time and up to 40 hours of standby time. An optional extended NiMH battery pack also is available. A full range of accessories can be included.

For information, visit the web site at www.nokia.com.