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Telecommunications Coming soon: WiMAX the home, perhaps
Telecommunications Coming soon: WiMAX the home, perhaps | Coming soon: WiMAX the home, perhaps |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Sunday, 23 July 2006 | |
  
(femto is the SI prefix denoting 10-15 and next in the scale down from the more familiar micro, nano and pico. Should technology produce even smaller base stations, the SI system has three further prefixes available: atto, zepto and yocto.) According to picoChip, "Femtocells are small, low-cost base stations, intended to be used in residential or corporate environments where high-speed coverage would otherwise be limited. By enabling cost-effective deployment they allow carriers to complete with UMA or voice-over-WiFi." picoChip claims that the femtocell concept is increasingly being recognised in the 3G community, but as the carrier most advanced in deploying WiBro, KT is the first to develop such a program for WiMAX. "WiBro, the South Korean wireless telecommunications standard, is compatible with WiMAX 802.16e-2005 (mobile WiMAX), and aims to be the technology that delivers personal broadband to consumers around the globe." The picoChip/KT partnership will focus on picoChip's recently introduced PC20x family of processors, claimed to "deliver the best MIPS per dollar of any signal processor and [to] enable a single chip WiMAX BS PHY with integrated ARM for upper layer protocols." |
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