During the event, NextWave plans to make a number of important announcements that will further the company’s leadership in providing the products and technologies needed to enable next-generation mobile multimedia services for customers around the world.
These announcements will include news related to mobile TV, LTE, advances in NextWave‘s WiMAX technology and ecosystem, and mobile media content solutions.
“Major operators and handset manufacturers around the world today depend on NextWave for a wide range of essential mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies,” said Allen Salmasi, CEO of NextWave Wireless. “At this year’s Mobile World Congress we will be showcasing an exciting lineup of innovative products and services that will take mobile multimedia into a new realm for our customers.”
Among the products and technologies that will be demonstrated by NextWave Wireless (Stand #AV40) at Mobile World Congress are:
TDtv™ - Designed to operate on existing 3G spectrum, TDtv is a high-performance, UMTS-based mobile TV solution that delivers up to 28 channels of high-quality, live television programming to TDtv-enabled WCDMA handsets. TDtv represents a breakthrough in reducing the cost of implementing mobile television and provides UMTS operators around the world with a powerful multimedia and advertising platform.
V5™ Base Station - Based on NextWave’s widely-deployed TD-CDMA base station platform, the V5 is designed to deliver the ultimate in performance and flexibility by offering mobile operators the industry’s only 3GPP TD-CDMA base station with an evolutionary path to WiMAX and LTE.
ER-7™ - Based on the 3GPP Release 7 standard for TD-CDMA, ER-7 is an advanced mobile broadband platform that incorporates key NextWave technologies that can significantly bolster the operator business case for mobile broadband. ER-7 includes interference cancellation technology that triples cell edge throughput performance and doubles overall system capacity, as well as advanced quality-of-service capabilities to increase overall revenue potential.
At the stand, NextWave will also preview the expanding WiMAX ecosystem which delivers NextWave’s “no compromise”, end-to-end WiMAX solution which combines industry-proven wireless innovations and the company’s family of advanced WiMAX semiconductors.
In addition, PacketVideo (PV), a NextWave subsidiary, and the industry’s leading independent supplier of device-embedded multimedia software, will debut new solutions for the rapid expansion of mobile media services.
