This came across my desk and I thought it was worth sharing - Chris Whiteley, director of business development for xG� Technology, will be one of the presenters at the COMPTEL Conference next week in Orlando, Florida. COMPTEL members are entrepreneurial companies building and deploying next-generation networks to provide competitive voice, data, and video services.
Whiteley will be on the Monday afternoon panel examining �Emerging Technologies.� He will present information on xMax�--the world�s first mobile VoIP network, which allows consumers to benefit from much lower-cost mobile calls via the Internet.
xG Technology developed xMax as an alternative solution that enables consumers to benefit directly using mobile VoIP technology. xMax is similar to Vonage or Skype, but in the form of a fully mobile handset that doesn�t require the use and extra cost of a computer or broadband Internet connection.
xMax offers consumers the prospect of lower phone bills because:
� xMax transmits over unlicensed spectrum�the same as baby monitors and cordless phones. Major national cellular carriers paid billions of dollars for licensed spectrum that they recoup from customers.
� xMax was built as a totally Internet-based digital system from top to bottom�an extremely cost efficient communication approach.
xMax networks can enable communication providers to aggressively compete with national carriers by offering customers unlimited voice and data plans both locally and long distance, extremely low-cost international calling, no contracts, as well as home phone and high-speed Internet service.
xMax is the product of xG Technology's extensive R&D activity, a $100 million international effort that involves companies in the US, Europe and Asia. xG's impressive patent portfolio, which includes 50 US and more than 100 international patents and pending patent applications, has been developed with the goal of bringing lower-cost communications to consumers.
To experience this new technology in the Ft. Lauderdale area, xG has deployed an urban/suburban showcase, which allows accredited journalists, published telecom analysts, and prospective partners to test the xMax platform at highway speeds.
Unique/Novel Subjects at EuMW 2009
I like searching through the paper/poster topics for unique, novel subjects that are not main-stream and might be areas for future growth. I was able to attend a few of these talks but was busy with customer visits covering the exhibition which made it impossible to attend more of them. Here are some that I came across:
- Design of a Cellular Energy Harvesting Radio
- New Fabrication Process to Manufacture RF-MEMS and GaN on GaN/Si Substrate
- Design of a Fully Planar Chipless RFID Transponder with 35 Bit Data Capacity
- SP48T Module Architecture RF-MEMS Multi-Throw Switches for a Multi-Beam Antenna Measurement Setup at K- and Ka-Band
- A W-Band MMIC Vector Modulator Utilizing Tandem Couplers and 50 nm MHEMTs
- Design and Characterization of a Novel Battery-less, Solar Powered Wireless Tag for Enhanced-Range Remote Tracking Applications
- A Wideband OOK for Wireless Receiver Capsule Endoscope
- Analysis of New Polarizing Properties of Negative Indexed Materials at Microwave Frequencies
- RF Devices Written with Carbon Nanotube Ink on Paper
- A Novel Fabrication Process for Printed Antennas Integrated in Polymer Multi-Layer Car Body Panels
- UWB Frequency Modulated CW Synthetic Aperture Radar for Through-the-Wall Localization
- Computer Simulation of the RF System Effects on a mmWave
- Doppler Radar for Human Vital-Sign Estimation
One that I attended that was very interesting was the Design of a Planar Chipless RFID Transponder where they are trying to integrate low cost, rugged tags on money in Australia. They print chipless tags onto money that are comprised of 2 UWD antennas and a multi-section resonator to improve security and prevent counterfeiting. The goal is to get the cost down to about one cent so it is feasible to tag currency.
A very interesting conference this year with interesting topics � Let us know what you found interesting this year in the technical sessions or tutorials.
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