Interphase, Wintegra, Xilinx & Aricent Collaborate on Innovative, Low-Cost LTE Base Station

PLANO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Interphase Corporation (NASDAQ: INPH – News), a leading global provider of solutions for converged communications networks, is pleased to announce the iSPAN 36702 Wireless Base Station Module. It supports all of the functions of a Wireless Base Station except the radio and is designed for use in 4G networks, including the LTE eNodeB and next generation WiMAX base stations. The iSPAN 36702 integrates LTE technology from Wintegra, Xilinx, and Aricent® for eNodeB solutions and is easily tailored to our customer’s needs for a variety of wireless broadband applications. Interphase offers professional integration services to help our customers modify any of these solutions to meet their stringent requirements, regardless of the application.

“The iSPAN 36702 represents a major step forward in reducing the size and cost of wireless base stations while reducing the time to market for base station developers by providing an off-the-shelf hardware solution,” said Marc DeVinney, vice president of Engineering at Interphase. “With the addition of a radio module, a complete wireless base station can be integrated into a very compact solution. For serving a larger user count, the iSPAN 36702 can be combined with a processor AdvancedMC (AMC) such as the Interphase iSPAN 36CA or iSPAN 36MC2 to easily scale.”

The iSPAN 36702 is ideal for use in small wireless base stations serving up to 100 users in a single sector such as Picocells and Enterprise Femtocells. It supports:

• Wireless Control (MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC) and LTE Protocols (S1-AP, X2-AP)
• Backhaul and Air interface security processing
• Wireless Baseband (LTE PHY)
• Radio Interface

“The iSPAN 36702 solves a growing need of OEMs to provide scalable, modular base station designs that also meet very aggressive cost, power, and time-to-market requirements,” said Colin Alexander, Director of Wireless Marketing at Wintegra. “This single card design from Interphase provides full ‘IP to IQ’ capability in a manner that can scale from small picocells to micro or macro LTE base stations, and does so in a very compact and flexible form factor.”

The iSPAN 36702 features three Optical Interfaces on the front panel for CSPRI/OBSAI Baseband interfaces or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and up to 11 Serdes links on the AMC connector for a combination of Gigabit Ethernet, Serial RapidIO and PCI-Express™ links. It is powered by the Wintegra™ WinPath3™ Network Processor, Xilinx® Virtex®-6 FPGA, and Aricent’s industry-proven 4G software framework solution. The Network Processor provides traffic policing and shaping, protocol conversion, and switching capability. The WinPath3 also implements the MAC layer and provides two MIPS core processors that are used to host Aricent’s eNodeB framework, which provides Layer 3/RRM application functionality. The Virtex-6 provides the baseband PHY which is tightly integrated with the WinPath3 MAC Layer.

“Aricent is very excited to be part of the LTE ecosystem with partners such as Interphase, Wintegra and Xilinx,” said C.P. Murali, senior vice president at Aricent. “Building on Aricent’s success in the Base Station evolution from GSM to HSPA, Aricent continues to play a significant role in architecting next generation of LTE Base Stations, with a number of design wins in this space.”

In addition to this Wireless Base Station module, Interphase provides experienced design services to expertly handle custom wireless projects. Learn more now about how Interphase can help you with your high-speed wireless application.

To make an appointment to see the iSPAN 36702 at the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 15-18, or for iSPAN 36702 pricing and availability, please contact us.

About Interphase Corporation

Interphase Corporation (NASDAQ: INPH – News) delivers solutions for network connectivity, interworking, and packet processing for key applications for the communications, Mil/Aero, and enterprise markets. Founded in 1974, Interphase provides expert customization services and contract manufacturing in addition to its COTS portfolio, and plays a leadership role in next generation AdvancedTCA® (ATCA), AdvancedMC™ (AMC), PCI-x, and PCI-e standards and solutions. Interphase is headquartered in Plano, Texas, with sales offices across the globe. Clients include Alcatel-Lucent, Emerson Network Power, Fujitsu Ltd., Hewlett Packard, Nokia-Siemens Networks, Samsung, and Sun Microsystems. Visit www.iphase.com.

Tests in Phoenix and San Diego Mark Key Milestones in the Future Deployment of Next-Generation 4G Wireless Broadband Network

ATLANTA, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ — Cox Communications today announced the successful completion of voice calling and high definition video streaming over wireless networks using fourth generation (4G) Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. Cox’s 4G technology and service trials utilize the AWS and 700 MHz spectrum that it acquired at Federal Communication Commission auctions in 2006 and 2008. Cox spent over $550 million for radio spectrum licenses to support its wireless plans, which include wireless broadband.

Cox conducted the 4G trials in Phoenix and San Diego and chose these markets for the advanced technology-orientation of its residential and business customers, as well as the terrain and suburban density variances of their geographies.

While Cox is testing 4G LTE technology in these markets, it is initially deploying wireless services using the 3G CDMA standard in Hampton Roads, Va., Orange County, Calif. and Omaha, Nebraska.

“On the heels of announcing our initial 3G wireless service deployments, today’s news demonstrates our equal commitment to 4G services,” said Stephen Bye, Cox’s vice president of wireless. “Through the LTE trials, we are utilizing the AWS and 700 MHz spectrum to test voice, data and video applications and services and ultimately readying to deploy 4G wireless broadband services to meet the needs of our customers. We are encouraged by the success of the Phoenix and San Diego tests, which further validate our decision to pursue 4G based on LTE, specifically the 3GPP Release 8 standard.” Next month, Bye will expand on our 4G learnings as he participates in a keynote session titled “Ready for Launch of Next Generation Mobile Networks” at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Collaborating with Cox in conducting the 4G trials and testing the wireless services and applications were Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei.

About Cox Communications:

Cox Communications is a broadband communications and entertainment company, providing advanced digital video, Internet, telephone and wireless services over its own nationwide IP network. The third-largest U.S. cable TV company, Cox serves 6.2 million residences and businesses. Cox Business is a facilities-based provider of voice, video and data solutions for commercial customers and Cox Media is a full-service provider of national and local cable spot and new media advertising. Cox is known for pioneering efforts in cable telephone and commercial services, industry-leading customer care and its outstanding workplaces. For six years, Cox has been recognized as the top operator for women by Women in Cable Telecommunication; for four years, Cox has ranked among DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity; and the company holds a perfect score in the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. More information about Cox Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, is available at www.cox.com and www.coxmedia.com.

Mindspeed’s Transcede Application-Specific SoCs Optimize Power, Cost and Performance of Multi-Platform, Multi-Standard Mobile Network Baseband Units (BBUs)

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In “About ZTE” section, website address should read: www.zte.com.cn.

The corrected release reads:

ZTE SEES THE MINDSPEED TRANSCEDE 4000 SYSTEM-ON-CHIP (SOC) AS AN INNOVATIVE SOLUTION TO THE DESIGN CHALLENGES PRESENTED BY NEXT-GENERATION MOBILE NETWORKS

Mindspeed’s Transcede Application-Specific SoCs Optimize Power, Cost and Performance of Multi-Platform, Multi-Standard Mobile Network Baseband Units (BBUs)

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD – News), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that the company’s Transcede™ 4000 wireless baseband processor is being evaluated by ZTE as a potential solution for its next-generation wideband code-division multiple access (W-CDMA), long term evolution (LTE) and WiMAX base station products.

“Mindspeed® is already a leading supplier of carrier-class, application-specific SoCs to ZTE with our Comcerto® product line, and the evaluation of our Transcede family for ZTE’s baseband processing needs is a natural evolution of this engagement,” said Raouf Halim, chief executive officer of Mindspeed. “We are very excited to be working closely with ZTE as they look to semiconductor companies such as Mindspeed to facilitate optimal base station implementations targeting multi-standard, next-generation mobile networks.”

“Mindspeed T4000 SoC introduces an innovative approach to solving the challenge of designing cost and power effective LTE BBU solutions.” Said Mr Zhang Rui, Senior Director of ZTE’s LTE R&D group, “ZTE is actively evaluating the benefits of Transcede 4000 in the context of our baseband and L2 software, as we believe application specific SoCs have the potential to become the main stream approach to address the power/cost/performance needs of next generation multi-platform, multi-standard mobile networks.”

The Transcede SoC integrates an unprecedented 26 processing elements into a single device. This includes two ARM® Cortex™ A9 multi-core symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors, 10 CEVA® DSPs and 10 DSP accelerators that support the complete W-CDMA, LTE or WiMax (Layers 1, 2 and above) processing needs of single- and multi-sector base stations. Transcede can deliver three sectors of LTE processing in a single device, while still providing substantial processing headroom, allowing manufactures to deploy their own value-added features as part of an overall Transcede-based solution.

About Mindspeed Technologies

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor solutions for communications applications in the wireline and wireless network infrastructure, which includes today’s separate but interrelated and converging enterprise, broadband access, metropolitan and wide area networks. Our products are classified into three focused product families: multiservice access, high-performance analog and wide area networking communications. Our products are sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for use in a variety of network infrastructure equipment, including voice and media gateways, high–speed routers, switches, access multiplexers, cross-connect systems, add-drop multiplexers, digital loop carrier equipment, IP private branch exchanges (PBXs), optical modules, broadcast video systems and wireless base station equipment. To learn more, visit us at www.mindspeed.com.

About ZTE

To learn more about ZTE visit them at www.zte.com.cn

New, direct measures of Mobile Internet usage dispel widely held beliefs about the mobile medium

SEATTLE, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ — A new mobile measurement firm, Ground Truth™, today announced it has launched the first mobile measurement service to use census-based measures of actual Mobile Internet usage from millions of mobile subscribers in the United States. The company, which is backed by Steamboat Ventures and Voyager Capital, has developed a patent-pending methodology, True View™ to provide the most precise mobile usage metrics commercially available today.

To date, estimates of Mobile Internet traffic have varied markedly, making decisions difficult for publishers and advertisers. Publishers have been unable to validate their audiences or use the information to understand their competitors. Advertisers have struggled to justify media buys or effectively evaluate mobile marketing campaigns.

Ground Truth data comes directly from mobile operators and other data providers to report aggregate mobile data usage, on any visited mobile site. What the company has found using this superior methodology dispels many commonly held beliefs about how consumers interact with the Mobile Internet.

After measuring the weekly activities of a diverse set of 2.5 million Mobile Internet users across the United States in aggregate, Ground Truth found that more than half of most popular sites accessed by mobile users are mobile-oriented sites such as: Mocospace, AirG, CrushOrFlush, Myxer and Cellufun. Other reports based on surveys of thousands, small panels or incomplete market data, trumpet that the sites that dominate the Fixed Internet are also commanding a large majority of Mobile Internet traffic–claims that are not supported by actual usage.

“Ground Truth was founded to fill two critical gaps in mobile measurement: accuracy and completeness,” said Michael “Luni” Libes, founder and CTO, Ground Truth. “The only data source that can provide precise measures of mobile media usage is the mobile network itself. As this data shows, the accuracy of surveys is limited by the survey-taker’s memory and by the quality of a pre-determined list of sites from which they must choose. The reliability of data from individual data sources is equally limited as it only reflects a portion of the market.”

Ground Truth’s patent-pending methodology, True View™, takes non-personally identifying usage data from mobile operators and other data providers to establish precise, actionable mobile metrics, such as: number of unique visitors, page views, sessions, session length and advertising clicks. It also offers insights into the mobile clickstream: for example where a site’s traffic comes from, where it goes and the other properties commonly visited by a site’s audience. This data, which is critical to media planning and site optimization, had been unavailable to advertisers and publishers until today.

“Ground Truth elevates the standard for reporting on Mobile Web usage by reporting precisely which Mobile Internet sites are getting the most traffic and highest level of engagement–information that is critical and has been unavailable,” said Ray Taylor, president, Buongiorno USA.

“As more advertising dollars are being allocated to mobile campaigns, marketers must have access to data that can illustrate where consumers are going on the Mobile Web and which sites are most engaging,” said Jason Spero, vice president and general manager, North America, AdMob. “Ground Truth has brought data to market that will help marketers optimize their spend and justify a mobile strategy.”

The Ground Truth mobile measurement tools offer mobile advertisers and publishers the most precise measures of Mobile Internet usage available, and the only data available on a weekly basis. The data is presented in an intuitive, customized, online interface that provides detailed views into Mobile Internet usage.

“With all the investment and attention that mobile media has been receiving, it’s amazing that its value is based largely on contradictory and incomplete data sources,” said Sterling Wilson, president and CEO, Ground Truth.

“For several years, the market only needed a compass pointing towards mobile. Today, the market needs an accurate map of the landscape and a reliable route to navigate, and Ground Truth’s precise, actionable data provides it.”

About Ground Truth: Ground Truth is a mobile measurement firm that delivers the precise, timely and actionable mobile intelligence required for operators, advertisers and publishers to measure, optimize and grow their businesses. As the sole provider of actual usage data aggregated from millions of subscribers using True View™, a patent-pending census-based methodology, Ground Truth sets the benchmark for Mobile Internet measurement. Ground Truth is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and is venture-backed by Steamboat Ventures and Voyager Capital. For more information about the company, please visit www.groundtruth.com.

SUWANEE, Ga., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — ARRIS (Nasdaq: ARRS) today announced that Sunflower Broadband has selected the ARRIS Rapid Launch Hot Zone System to enhance its existing WiFi service capabilities. The system is an ARRIS integration of wireless technology from BelAir Networks, and a centralized enterprise management system from SolutionInc Ltd.

“The ARRIS Rapid Launch Hot Zone System will enable us to help our commercial customers expand their marketing capabilities, which is especially valuable for small businesses in this tough economic climate,” said Karin Woodard, Director of Business Development and IT for Sunflower Broadband. “These enhanced services will also create stickiness for our high speed data products, and produce new revenue from advertising and expanded service level offerings.”

The Rapid Launch Hot Zone System provides robust capabilities including centralized management that enables operators to manage and bill numerous commercial customers, who may have hundreds or thousands of end users. It integrates with third party billing systems, and can accommodate multiple pay-per-use options including credit cards, email accounts, and access codes. The system enables location-specific services which can consist of one business, or a group of business locations under one account. Access points can be managed individually for billing, authentication, bandwidth, messaging, and marketing. Tiered bandwidth service offerings give service providers the ability to charge premium rates for faster connections, and enhanced marketing features enable providers or their business customers to push specific marketing and advertising content on customized “welcome” and “registration” pages based on their locations.

“After evaluating several options, we selected this system because it easily interfaces with our existing network infrastructure, and enables us to provide pay services and marketing tools that can be tailored to the unique requirements of our individual customers,” added Woodard. “ARRIS has a successful history of broadband commercial wireless integrations, and we are happy to be working with them on this initiative.”

According to Woodard, the company will begin integrating the SolutionInc management system with more than 60 BelAir Networks access point locations in Lawrence, KS and the surrounding communities of Basehor, Tonganoxie, Linwood, and Eudora. Deployments are expected to begin in March of 2010.

“Sunflower Broadband is a forward-looking operator that recognizes the strategic benefits of enhanced internet services for its business customers and its own bottom line,” said Tom Williams, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for ARRIS. “We are proud to have been chosen to assist them in expanding their commercial footprint.”

About ARRIS

ARRIS is a global communications technology company specializing in the design, engineering and supply of technology supporting quad-play broadband services for residential and business customers around the world. The company supplies broadband operators with the tools and platforms they need to deliver, reliable telephony, demand driven video, next-generation advertising and high-speed data services. Headquartered in Suwanee, GA, USA, ARRIS has R&D centers in Atlanta, Beaverton, OR; Chicago, IL; Kirkland, WA; Wallingford, CT; Waltham, MA; Cork, Ireland; and Shenzhen, China, and operates support and sales offices throughout the world. Information about ARRIS products and services can be found at www.arrisi.com.

About Sunflower Broadband

Sunflower Broadband is an innovative independent broadband operator that provides more than 200 television channels, high-speed cable internet access, and telephone services to residential and commercial subscribers in the Lawrence, Eudora, and Douglas County communities of northeast Kansas. It also provides its community with unparalleled local news and information resources through a converged partnership with the Lawrence Journal-World, 6NEWS, and World Online. Named Independent Cable Operator of the year in 2003, Sunflower Broadband was one of the first cable operators in the country to offer a 100% all digital channel lineup, high-speed internet access, and telephone services to its residential subscribers. The company also works with local businesses to provide everything from simple internet and communication services, to complex networking and telecommunication projects.

About SolutionInc Limited

With operations in more than 45 countries worldwide, SolutionInc is an established global leader in Internet, centralized hotspot connectivity, billing and management solutions. SolutionInc provides patented software and services to the hospitality and telecommunications industries through its award-winning, patented technology software products: SolutionIP(tm) and SolutionIP(tm) Enterprise. Through 700,000+ touch points, SolutionIP(tm) allows people to easily and securely connect to the Internet from locations such as hotel rooms, convention centres, universities, restaurants and airports. SolutionInc holds a robust patent and patent-pending portfolio and is a trademark and a wholly owned subsidiary of SolutionInc Technologies Limited (TSX-VEN: STL). www.solutioninc.com

About BelAir Networks

BelAir Networks is the market share leader in Service Provider Wi-Fi solutions. The company’s portfolio of indoor and outdoor wireless LAN access points, control and management systems enable service providers, government and businesses to deliver high performance, scalable and flexible managed Wi-Fi services to both enterprise and public users. BelAir Networks solutions provide a compelling return on investment and address the need for public Wi-Fi hot spots and hotzones, secure wireless LAN, cellular data offload, wireless backhaul and video surveillance. Innovative cable, telecom and mobile service providers use BelAir Networks to drive revenue and improve competitiveness. Founded in 2001, BelAir Networks is a privately held company with customers that include AT&T and Cablevision and backed by investment from Comcast Interactive Capital, T-Mobile Venture Fund and leading venture capital firms including Trilogy Equity Partners. For more information, visit www.belairnetworks.com.