Updates on OFDM Forum Agenda, Arc's BRZE notes, BMW Win and Patent Infringement suit... Rob
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Excerpt from the OFDM Forum's revised agenda for upcoming meeting at BWWF:
Agenda - February 20, 2001
9:45 10:30 Alcatel A Global Perspective - Past, Present and Future
10:30 11:00 Industry Canada COFDM for Digital Television(DTV) Terrestrial Transmission
11:00 11:30 Yamacraw Research Center Development of advanced front-end ICs and modules for OFDM applictions
13:15 13:45 BreezeCOM TBA
13:45 14:15 IMEC OFDM and Turbo Coding: The Perfect Marriage
15:15 16:15 Demonstration at UC Berkeley
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Listened to BreezeCOM's conference call to see what their take was on the marketplace and the outlook for 2001 building out of 2000.
Conference Call:
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Of note:
- Weakness / slowdown in their OEM agreement with Ericsson.
- Announcing a major OEM deal related to MMDS in the next few weeks.
- Revenue guidance remains at $150 million US
- Lot of cash in the bank.
- Geographically revenue in 2000 was 52% North America, 27% Europe, 12% Asia and 9% Latin America
- In the 2.4 market their biggest competition is Cisco and Lucent.
- In 3.5 GHz Wi-LAN is their biggest competition in Europe.
- OFDM will find it's way into all their product lines eventually. Seemed very sold on the technology.
Wonder if they will time their PR with the February OFDM Forum meeting.
Interesting call
Arc
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Note: Acunia is the new name for SmartMove
Working Groups:
Broadband Mobile Wireless
Congratulations to the Broadband Mobile Wireless Group!!
Santa Barbara, California --- The ITS-Radio Service (ITS-RS) proposal submitted by the OFDM Forum, originally initiated in 1996 by Caltrans-TCFI, has received the most votes from the ASTM_DSRC Writing Group members on Jan. 25th , 2001. This critical milestone was the result of a true international Government-Industry-Academia collaborative effort that has taken place over the last 2 years.
The vote took place at the UCSB-TCFI facility in recognition of TCFI's leading role in the ITS-RS (DSRC at 5.9 GHz). OFDM Forum member companies who played an active role in generating this proposal include Intersil, Acunia, Wi-LAN, California PATH and TCFI.
Ramez Gerges, Caltrans-TCFI Principal Engineer , and Dr. Raja Sengupta (PATH) have been selected to represent the OFDM Forum in setting the next decision selection criteria for the group.
Email:
To send an email to the Chair company of this working group, simply send your message to ofdmforum_chair_bmw@wi-lan.com.
Members:
Chair Companies: 4G Network Technologies Ltd.
TCFI
Participating principal member companies: 4G Network Technologies Ltd.
TCFI
Wi-LAN Inc.
Other participating member companies: California-PATH labs - UC Berkeley
Carnegie Mellon University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Sony Corporation
Sumitomo Electric Industries
About this Working Group:
Contributing to the Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) standard and working towards enhancing traffic safety with wireless communications technologies, this working group will tackle challenges associated with equipment for the 5.9 GHz band, the harmonization of the physical layer wideband proposals and proposing OFDM technology for use in mobile communications.
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Patent Infringement Preliminary delayed from Feb. 12th to Feb. 19th.
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