Active antenna can raise cell capacity 40 percent
Ubidyne said the trial was conducted at multiple sites with a leading U.S. mobile operator but declined to name the operator.
The uB700 Antenna Embedded Radio enables beam forming and tilting and thereby was able to deliver doubled data throughput at the cell edge and an increase of 40 percent cell capacity overall at comparable output power, Ubidyne said. The Ubidyne integrated active antenna systems are compatible with CPRI and OBSAI optical interfaces and support current and next-generation standards including GSM, UMTS, HSPA+ and LTE.
"The trial shows that active antennas can significantly increase cell capacity using vertical sectorization and double the uplink throughput at the cell edge as well as increase the coverage area with independent uplink and downlink tilting," said Michael Frankle, CEO of Ubidyne, in a statement. "This successful independent verification shows that operators can now get maximum coverage and capacity from their macrocells using active antenna technology before investing in costly small cells."
"The active antenna market is just in the early stages and Ubidyne is at the forefront of this trend with their Antenna Embedded radio solutions. Ubidyne’s technology offers great efficiency and versatility and delivers tremendous benefits for network operators addressing exploding demand in wireless data traffic," said Earl Lum, president at EJL Wireless Research LLC, in the same statement.
Commercial deployments of the uB700 Antenna Embedded Radio are expected to begin during the first half of 2012.
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