RadioFrame has just announced an Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) base station product allowing network expansion in areas with reduced space and energy requirements.
Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) is a mobile telecommunications technology developed by Motorola, which provides its users with the benefits of a trunked radio and a cellular telephone. It is claimed to allow more users within a given spectral space, compared to analogue cellular and two-way radio systems, by using speech compression and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA).
In particular, RadioFrame Networks announced the commercial availability of its MC-Series Standard Capacity (MCSC) product, the latest in a line of base station serving the iDEN marketplace. Because of its characteristics, the MCSC product "allows iDEN operators to install a base station in situations where space and energy need to be minimised."
The new MCSC is a small 3-Sector indoor iDEN base station contained in a single rack, with room for a power plant, rectifiers, microwave equipment and batteries. The MCSC product was developed in response to demand from RadioFrame’s growing list of international iDEN customers, and operates on substantially less power than is required for a typical iDEN base station. The MCSC is expected to be used by operators expanding into new markets, as well as filling in coverage areas not previously accessible.
“Many of our international customers have been asking for a small inexpensive iDEN base station that will allow them to cover less densely populated or remote areas where the return on traditional equipment investment is not acceptable,” said RadioFrame Networks CEO, Jeff Brown. "The business case is more easily made as carriers realise lower costs, including operating savings from reduced power consumption.”
The MCSC follows the recently introduced Outdoor Pole Mount (OPM) microcell that provides iDEN operators with a small, self-contained base station solution that can be mounted on utility and other pre-existing poles.
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