4G MIMO Active Array Antenna and LTE Picocell Win CTIA E-Tech Awards

Apr 12, 2011 3:04 PM, MD&D News Staff

The 4G MIMO Active Array Antenna from Powerwave Technologies has won the 2011 CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Award in the Infrastructure: In-Building/WiFi/LAN category. The company’s Powerwave LTE Picocell took home the second prize in the same category.

Powerwave’s products bested 10 other finalists in the enterprise infrastructure category, including products from Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, Huawei, Ruckus Wireless, Mindspeed, and ZTE, among others. Winners were announced at a ceremony on March 23.

The 4G MIMO Active Array Antenna combines Powerwave’s remote radio head and antenna technologies into a single integrated design with a 3- to 5-dB link budget that increases a basestation’s coverage radius by 100% over non-integrated antennas. The antenna supports a wide variety of protocols, including CDMA, WCDMA, HSPA+, WiMAX, and LTE.

The LTE Picocell combines broadband LTE and Wi-Fi in a single compact basestation that supports up to 100 active outdoor users and 32 active indoor users, and up to 1000 registered users. It supports all 4G frequency bands in the 700-MHz to 2.7-GHz range and features a 2 by 2 MIMO antenna for additional capacity.

Both products are key components of Powerwave’s Advanced Wireless Solutions that enable wireless operators to inject broadband capacity closer to where their customers need it most. This gives each user a better signal and reduces network congestion, resulting in a faster experience and longer battery life.