@CTIA; Products, demos and more

BridgeWave Communications announced the newest version of its FlexPort family of high-capacity 80 GHz radios for mobile backhaul. The new version incorporates quality of service into a high-frequency, high-capacity 80 GHz product. The company said the FlexPort product is designed to give carriers cost-effective backhaul that natively supports both legacy TDM traffic along with IP-based 4G traffic. The new QoS feature includes an integral five port Ethernet switch that applies QoS rules to incoming traffic to prioritize data. Other new features include Ethernet Operation, Administration and Maintenance functionality and 1+1 Monitored Hot Standby configurations.
ADC plans to showcase its microcellular solutions this week at CTIA Wireless 2010, including its new InterReach Spectrum product, FlexWave Prism and InterReach Fusion distributed antenna systems. The company said it believes distributed antenna systems will be needed to complement femtocells and picocells in 3G and 4G networks.
“Our solutions de-couple capacity from coverage, making it possible for service providers to optimize their investments in base station capacity and backhaul while extending coverage to a far greater area than the base station alone could reach,” said Dick Parran, president of Network Solutions business unit for ADC. “By coupling a small base station with our DAS products, operators can provide their full complement of services while maximizing the spectral assets to any indoor or outdoor area without the expense of multiple backhaul connections or complex multi-cell maintenance.”
Sunshine Int’l Trade Show Promotion Co. Ltd. said more than 50 Chinese companies are expected to participate in the China Pavilion at this year’s CTIA Wireless 2010 trade show. Among the participants this year is manufacturer Haier Telecom. In addition, Sunshine said several companies will be announcing new products this year, including power systems, hands-free solutions, antennas, handsets and more.
Allot Communications Ltd., which makes optimization and revenue-generation solutions based on Dynamic Actionable Recognition Technology, launched a new product, the Allot CellWise. The CellWise network service is designed to allow mobile broadband operators to manage traffic down to the individual cell and alleviate backhaul congestion in real time, said Allot.
The product is offered as an integrated service with Allot’s intelligent policy control and charging solution included in the Allot Service Gateway platform.
“Cell congestion has traditionally been solved through heavy operator investment in the backhaul,” said Andrei Elefant, vice president of product management and marketing at Allot. “Intelligent cell traffic management from a centralized location is both a cost effective and time efficient solution that enables operators to truly alleviate congestion on a point by point basis.”
Berkeley Varitronics Systems Inc. said it has successfully field tested its handheld Bloodhound cell phone detector at a large county correctional facility. Contraband cell phones is a growing problem in prisons and correctional facilities. During the field test, security officers and Berkeley representatives discretely walked the halls of the facility with the Bloodhound detector to pinpoint the exact location of contraband cell phones in use.
“BVS has sold a significant number of Bloodhound cell phone detectors to federal and state correctional facilities and numerous government agencies since it’s release on December 14, 2009. Of the hundreds of correctional facilities that have contacted BVS, the majority are frustrated with the number of cell phones that continually make their way behind bars and are desperate for a solution like BVS’ cell phone detector,” said Scott Schober, president and CEO of BVS. “According to some correctional officers, cell phones are smuggled in through criminal defense lawyers, family members, food service staff, maintenance contractors and even corrupt security guards looking to make some extra cash.”
Without a product like the Bloodhound detector, many facilities have used dogs trained to smell cell phone batteries and have petitioned to be able to use jamming technologies to curb use of contraband cell phones.
American Roamer, which provides wireless mapping and information solutions, introduced its cloud-based interactive international coverage viewer. The application is available through American Roamer’s CellMaps product line and provides street-level data for nearly 80 countries. The product also can show wireless coverage footprints around the world.
The company is demonstrating the product this week at CTIA Wireless 2010.