Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ubidyne Joins the Open Base Station Architecture Initiative in the Promotion of Standardization
ULM, GERMANY, JANUARY 22, 2008 -- Ubidyne, the leader in digital radio technology for the wireless industry, announced today that the company has joined the Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI).
The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) is an industry initiative comprised of leading base station vendors, module and component manufacturers. Between them they have created a complete set of open interface specifications related to key parts of the base station subsystem. By defining a basic modular architecture and detailed specifications for the internal interfaces between modules, OBSAI aims to create an open market for cellular base stations.
“Our OBSAI membership further demonstrates our commitment to the industry standardization of mobile network equipment,” commented Ken Hawk, CEO of Ubidyne. “We look forward to assisting in the acceleration of standardization in the base station industry and to making our antenna embedded radio technology as easy to use as possible.”
“We are pleased to continue the momentum of our standardization initiative with the addition of Ubidyne,” said Peter Kenington, Managing Director of Linear Communications Consultants Ltd. and the Technical Chair of OBSAI. “The advent of the OBSAI specifications and their widespread adoption in the industry has stimulated innovation and is enabling groundbreaking infrastructure solutions to find their way into OEM products, much more quickly and easily than would otherwise have been the case.”
The OBSAI specifications will create an open market that will substantially reduce the development effort and costs that have been traditionally associated with creating new base station product ranges. The availability of off-the-shelf base station modules will enable manufacturers to focus their development efforts on creating further added value within the base station, encouraging greater innovation and more cost-effective products. Reduced product development cycles will enable new base station functions to become available on the market more quickly.
About Ubidyne:
Ubidyne is leading the industry in the development of digital antenna embedded radio technology for wireless communications. Ubidyne’s standards-agnostic micro-radio technology is integrated with wireless antennas and revolutionizes the economics of mobile communications. These integrated active antenna systems are compatible with current and next generation standards. They eliminate the need for coaxial feeder cables, remote electrical tilt and additional amplifiers on antenna towers and masts. The Ubidyne technology significantly reduces energy consumption while improving radio performance, deployment flexibility, coverage and capacity of mobile communications networks globally. Visit www.ubidyne.com for more information.
Ubidyne Contacts:
Kent Heath
VP Marketing and Business Development
Ubidyne GmbH
Phone: +1 480-206-0881
kent.heath@ubidyne.com
Cara Mormino
RocketCreative
Phone: +1-602-885-3389
cara@rocketcreative.com
About OBSAI:
The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) is a forum of over 140 telecommunications companies - spanning, module, component and base station vendor activity. Together they have created open internal interface specifications covering base station architectures and modules encompasing all major air interface standards: GSM-EDGE, W-CDMA, CDMA2000, WiMAX and LTE. For a list of OBSAI members and further information go to: www.obsai.com.
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