CAMBRIDGE, UK – July 30, 2008 – Home femtocells are allowing mobile operators to deliver a personal 3G signal that will unleash the full potential of the latest phones, according to a new briefing paper from leading femtocell developer ip.access. The combination of excellent voice quality, higher data speeds, longer battery life, plus simple connectivity and lower costs means that femtocells are now set to enable the very best user experience – positioning 3G phones to become the hub of in-home entertainment and internet connectivity.
UK-based pioneer in cellular-over-IP, ip.access, has today released its new briefing paper for mobile network operators –“Introducing 3G femtocells successfully to the home” – which explores how innovative mobile operators can create exciting new femtocell-based offerings that will revolutionise the way that customers use a mobile phone at home. The new handbook draws on ip.access’ extensive experience in deploying capacity and coverage solutions for leading mobile operators, and provides guidance on how best to sell and deploy femtocells in the home environment. Key topic areas covered include: typical customer usage profiles and end user benefits; adoption sweetspots; next generation ‘Connected Home’ femtocell applications; operator service benefits and business cases; industry analyst viewpoints; technical implementation success factors, and much more.
Dr Andy Tiller, VP Marketing for ip.access and author of the briefing paper, explains the benefits to target customers and the type of services they will be able to enjoy in the femtocell-connected home: “Femtocells provide so much more than simply a better signal indoors. Families can benefit from streamlined and money-saving in-home data and voice packages, while the technical and social connectivity provided by femtozone services unlocks new possibilities to make the mobile phone the key interface to home entertainment – both online and offline.”
The briefing paper is now available for download from the ip.access website:
http://www.ipaccess.com/femtocells/femtocells_into_home.php
For more information about ip.access’ femtocell solutions, please visit:
http://www.ipaccess.com/femtocells/femtocells.php
About ip.access (http://www.ipaccess.com)
Based in Cambridge, UK, ip.access ltd (www.ipaccess.com) is a leading manufacturer of cost-effective picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and 3G. These solutions bring IP and cellular technologies together and solve in-building access problems for mobile operators, opening up new revenue streams while defending existing business.
ip.access is the company behind the Oyster 3G™ femtocell, winner of numerous industry awards including the Best Radio Access Product at the 2007 Global Mobile Awards. The Oyster 3G dramatically increases 3G cell capacity and coverage; improves quality of experience; and drives down costs. Oyster 3G is ready for today’s mobile networks and tomorrow’s IMS infrastructure.
The ip.access nanoGSM® is the world’s most deployed picocell solution for cellular networks. It provides GSM, GPRS and EDGE coverage and capacity for offices, shops and using satellite backhaul passenger aircraft, ships and in remote rural areas.
With more than 35 live networks around the world and many more being deployed, ip.access is the partner of choice for operators competing in the new converged marketplace.
ip.access counts Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild Gestion, Intel Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, ADC, Cisco, Qualcomm and Motorola Ventures among its shareholders.
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Cambridge, UK, 23 June 2008 – ip.access (www.ipaccess.com), the multi-award winning developer of femtocell and picocell solutions, has developed new 3G Home Routing™ technology that connects 3G phones into a home network via its Oyster 3G femtocell.
3G Home Routing uses the Oyster 3G to provide a real-time “bridge” between the user’s home network and any 3G handset, enabling a new generation of entertainment and communications applications for consumers, and allowing them to use their mobile phone in new and exciting ways at home.
Using a femtocell, a 3G phone can connect directly to a home network, enabling new applications such as streaming live video from a home media server to the handset, using the phone to browse the music on the home server and select tracks to play, or displaying a slideshow of phone photos on the TV.
“Femtocells can open up these applications to any 3G handset quickly and easily, putting your mobile phone at the heart of your connected home,” said ip.access VP of Marketing, Dr. Andy Tiller. “Our femtocell-powered 3G Routing technology means there’s no need to have a special WiFi-enabled phone, and you don’t have to spend time configuring any settings either.”
Because all the data traffic is routed locally over the femtocell, the end-user benefits from full HSDPA data rates for all their connected home applications. 3G Home Routing removes the delay associated with carrying data traffic from the phone over the mobile operator’s core network and back, which also saves costs for the operator.
“Femtocells can offer consumers more than just better 3G coverage at home,” said Tiller. “We believe that connected home applications and other ‘femtozone’ services will become compelling reasons for consumers to adopt femtocells.”
ip.access is demonstrating its 3G Home Routing technology at Femtocells Europe 2008, which is being held alongside the Femto Forum plenary meeting at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel at Heathrow, from 23-25th June. As a founding board member of the Femto Forum, ip.access is actively promoting industry-wide initiatives to encourage the development of femtocell applications.
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About ip.access
Based in Cambridge, UK, ip.access ltd (www.ipaccess.com) is a leading manufacturer of cost-effective picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and 3G. These solutions bring IP and cellular technologies together and solve in-building access problems for mobile operators, opening up new revenue streams while defending existing business.
ip.access is the company behind the Oyster 3G™ femtocell, winner of numerous industry awards including the Best Radio Access Product at the 2007 Global Mobile Awards. The Oyster 3G dramatically increases 3G cell capacity and coverage; improves quality of experience; and drives down costs. Oyster 3G is ready for today’s mobile networks and tomorrow’s IMS infrastructure.
The ip.access nanoGSM® is the world’s most deployed picocell solution for cellular networks. It provides GSM, GPRS and EDGE coverage and capacity for offices, shops and using satellite backhaul passenger aircraft, ships and in remote rural areas.
With more than 35 live networks around the world and many more being deployed, ip.access is the partner of choice for operators competing in the new converged marketplace.
ip.access counts Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild Gestion, Intel Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, ADC, Cisco, Qualcomm and Motorola Ventures among its shareholders.
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June 2, 2008, Manno Switzerland – NemeriX, a leading fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power, high-performance A-GPS solutions for GPS and location-based service (LBS) products, today announced a partnership with Partron, a leading component manufacturer serving the mobile phone and PND markets, to incorporate NemeriX’s high-performance GPS solutions into Partron’s components.
Based in Korea, Partron designs, manufactures and supplies RF modules, GPS components, VGA camera modules, antennas and other components to handset and PND manufacturers. Launched in 2003, Partron was founded by the technologists who led RF-development for the mobile communications division of Samsung Electro-Mechanics. Since its founding, Partron has become one of the world’s premier manufacturers of RF modules.
By leveraging NemeriX’s chipsets, Partron has significantly enhanced the performance and efficiency of its GPS modules - which are featured in approximately 70% of all PNDs sold in Korea and China. The enhancements delivered from its partnership with NemeriX will help Partron increase its PND market-share on a global basis, and also provide a competitive advantage for Partron’s components in mobile phone markets.
“We’ve selected NemeriX because of the quality of their products, and because their technical support is first rate,” said Steven Cho, Senior Sales Manager for Partron. “The NemeriX chipsets integrate seamlessly with our GPS offerings, and NemeriX’s low-power design provides a power savings of more than 60% compared to some of the other GPS chipsets we’ve evaluated.”
“Partron’s innovation and technical leadership in developing RF solutions for mobile phones, PNDs and base stations is widely recognized by our customers, and by many of the companies we seek to do business with,” said Lew Boore, VP of Marketing for NemeriX. “We’re thrilled to work with Partron, and we look forward to a lasting and successful partnership together.”
About NemeriX
Founded in April 2002, NemeriX S.A. (Manno, Switzerland) is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power GPS and LBS integrated circuits, software and firmware for GPS and wireless applications. With the release of NX4, NemeriX has four generations of low-power, high performance, stand-alone, hosted, A-GPS experience. NemeriX’s devices enable battery¬ powered location determination anywhere, anytime, facilitating the design and manufacture of truly differentiated products and an enhanced consumer experience.
NemeriX’s investors include Atila Ventures, Auriga Partners, Oak Investment Partners, PolyTechnos Venture-Partners, and Vi Venture Incubator. For more information about NemeriX, please visit www.nemerix.com.
About Partron
Launched in 2003, Partron was founded by the technologists who led RF-development for the mobile communications division of Samsung Electro-Mechanics. Since its founding, Partron has become one of the world’s premier manufacturers and supplier of components, such as RF modules, VGA camera modules, antennas and GPS modules, to handset and PND manufacturers. For more information, please visit: http://www.partron.co.kr/eng/company/company_core.php
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May 28, 2008, Manno Switzerland – NemeriX, a leading fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power, high-performance A-GPS solutions for GPS and location-based service (LBS) products, today announced that it has been granted a patent for its new single-chip multi-band GNSS RF receiver technology that enables GNSS devices to acquire parallel signals in all frequency bands from the GPS, GLONASS and Galileo systems. The patent – number US7'358'896 – covers NemeriX’s fully programmable single frequency synthesizer innovation and has been awarded in the US.
The highly integrated receiver reduces silicon size and optimises cost by enabling a single RF front-end receiver to synchronously acquire up to three different frequency bands – eliminating the need to implement three parallel receivers. With the ability to program the frequency synthesizer and to easily tune the three receiving channels, including filtering levels and frequency plans, NemeriX’s solution provides maximum flexibility for end applications and allows NemeriX’s customers to serve different markets with the same device.
Originally developed to address the high-end and space market, this innovation from NemeriX will allow customers to efficiently address future consumer applications, as new services in different bands – such as L2C – are released to support improved performance for commercial GPS/GNSS applications.
“By providing a highly integrated solution for multi-band signal environments, NemeriX is ready to deliver the next wave of GNSS performance,” comments NemeriX VP Marketing Lew Boore. “This latest technology innovation from NemeriX provides our customers with a future-proof platform for a greatly enhanced user experience, increased availability and accuracy for high demand applications, including emerging location based services such as pedestrian navigation and mobile social-based networking.”
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About NemeriX
Founded in April 2002, NemeriX S.A. (Manno, Switzerland) is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power GPS and LBS integrated circuits, software and firmware for GPS and wireless applications. With the release of NX4, NemeriX has four generations of low-power, high performance, stand-alone, hosted, A-GPS experience. NemeriX’s devices enable battery¬ powered location determination anywhere, anytime, facilitating the design and manufacture of truly differentiated products and an enhanced consumer experience.
NemeriX’s investors include Atila Ventures, Auriga Partners, Oak Investment Partners, PolyTechnos Venture-Partners, and Vi Venture Incubator.
For more information about NemeriX, please visit www.nemerix.com
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Abingdon, United Kingdom, May 19 2008 – Toumaz Technology Limited, the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless infrastructure for body monitoring solutions, today announces that Toumaz Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Professor Chris Toumazou has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society – the highest honour in the UK scientific system. The Royal Society is the national academy of science for the UK and Commonwealth and is the world’s oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. The Royal Society counts the world’s most eminent scientists among its Fellowship and Foreign Membership, which has included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Professor Toumazou, a world expert in the field of low power analogue circuit design, current mode circuits and systems for radio frequency and biomedical applications, has been distinguished following a peer review process for his major advances in low-power analogue signal processing. The Royal Society, which will celebrate its 350th anniversary in 2010, counts more than 60 Nobel Laureates amongst its approximately 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members. The honour of Fellowship to the Royal Society follows Professor Toumazou’s 2007 award of a Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Commenting on his election to Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor Toumazou said, “Being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society is such a privilege and I feel honoured that my hard work and passion for my science has been endorsed in this way.”
Professor Toumazou FRS co-founded Toumaz Technology in 2000 to exploit developments in ultra-low power silicon chip technology at Imperial College London. The patented core technology, Advanced Mixed Signal Processing (AMx™), is the basis for Toumaz’s Sensium™ technology platform for intelligent wireless body monitoring.
Professor Toumazou currently holds the Winston Wong Chair in Biomedical Circuits at Imperial College London and is Director and Chief Scientist of the new Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial. In recognition of his outstanding research, he was made a Professor at Imperial at the age of 33 – one of the youngest ever. He holds 23 patents, many of which are now fully granted in key territories throughout the world, and has published over 320 research papers in the field of RF and low power electronics.
Through his extensive record, Professor Toumazou has invented innovative electronic devices ranging from dual-mode cellular phones to ultra-low power devices for medical diagnosis and therapy. His pioneering research has demonstrated how the natural analogue physics of silicon semiconductor technology can be used to replace and monitor biological functions, resulting in – among other achievements – the development of one of the world's first totally implantable cochlear prosthetics. Current breakthrough research includes the development of an artificial retina and pancreas in silicon using nanowatts of power.
Professor Toumazou led a major campaign to raise £22 million to fund the creation of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College, which opened its state-of-the-art, purpose-built facilities in 2006. By combining the strengths of Imperial’s world class research schools in engineering and medicine, the IBE draws together scientists, medical researchers, clinicians and engineers to drive major advances in key areas of medical diagnosis and treatment, including personalised healthcare, regenerative medicine and biomedical imaging. As founding Director and head of research in Bionics, Professor Toumazou’s aim is to create an international centre of excellence in biomedical engineering research – generating high quality intellectual property, and accelerating the commercial realisation of technologies to improve the lives of people around the world.
About Toumaz Technology (www.toumaz.com)
Toumaz Technology Limited is the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless infrastructure for body monitoring solutions.
Toumaz’s ultra low-power smart sensor interface and transceiver platform – the Sensium™ – enables non-intrusive, real-time wireless monitoring of multiple vital signs for a wide range of healthcare and lifestyle management applications. Based on Toumaz’s patented ultra-low power Advanced Mixed Signal (AMx)™ technology, the Sensium provides the enabling technology to connect the mobile individual to healthcare providers – simply, affordably and unobtrusively.
For healthcare professionals, this transforms the possibilities for pro-active monitoring and improved quality of care. For patients, it delivers new opportunities for lifestyle-compatible, personalised healthcare, as well as better therapeutic outcomes.
About the Royal Society (http://royalsociety.org/)
The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660.
The backbone of the Society is its Fellowship of the most eminent scientists of the day, elected by peer review for life and entitled to use FRS after their name. There are currently more than 60 Nobel Laureates amongst the Society's approximately 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members.
Throughout its history, the Society has promoted excellence in science through its Fellowship and Foreign Membership, which has included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, James Watson and Stephen Hawking.
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