Do these chips for phones care about CDMA, TDMA, or GSM? Or, will VARL sell into all?
I believe they're protocol agnostic.
Also, getting back to LMDS. I agree it's starting to show promise, but again what I don't understand, like the question about the phones is whether they sell components just for the broadcasting base station, or also the receiving antennae?
A recent patent announcement:
varil.com
Sherman also noted, "This technology provides solutions to the wireless communications industry as it evolves to meet the challenges of eventual spectrum crowding and greater bandwidth demand for applications such as high-speed Internet access. In addition to making existing products more affordable, we expect our innovations to encourage the development of new applications previously regarded as cost-prohibitive."
This appears to be one of the components used in their LMDS products. I would imagine broadband wireless also needs signal source components in which case they would be needed for both the sending and receiving.
From Vari-L's SEC filing:
"The Company introduced its first Commercial Signal Source Component product, the phase locked loop synthesizer, in 1993. The PLL is a device utilized in both transmitting and receiving equipment. The PLL's function is to lock onto stable reference signals and covert them into stable frequencies which may be detected and utilized by the communications equipment. This function is essential in communications equipment. As compared to its competitors, the Company's PLL exhib its superior phase noise performance and uses approximately 20% of the power, operates with an extended life, and is competitively priced. . . "
I'm still in kindergarten.
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