UK based Horsebridge Network Systems has announced a new partnership with California's GO Net to supply the company's mobile wireless broadband systems. GO Net is said to combine ‘smart antenna technology' with cellular-mesh radio access architecture, said to provide a new level of Wi-Fi coverage and performance.
By using the GO products now available through Horsebridge, carriers can reduce their wireless network's footprint by up to 40%, reducing upfront CAPEX by around 50% and lower recurring OPEX for maintenance by 30-50%, it's claimed.
MBW architecture utilises ‘micro' 'pico' and ‘femto' Wi-Fi base stations to provide advanced Wi-Fi coverage.
Horsebridge offers the MBW 2000 to provide top-down micro-cellular Wi-Fi coverage, the MBW 1000 series to provide complementary street-level Wi-Fi coverage and the MBW 500 series as a gap filler for increased coverage and capacity injection.
According to Horsebridge, until now, Wi-Fi solutions have struggled to meet the challenges of varying RF environments, networking requirements, and user loads. GO has developed patent-pending xRF technology which makes these issues a thing of the past, it says.
Based on an implementation of adaptive beam-forming and smart antenna signal processing algorithms, xRF is able to overcome the detrimental effects of multipath. When receiving, it constructively combines the phase shifted signals obtained through reflections, resulting in significant improvements to the signal-to-noise ratio, particularly in multipath-prone non-line-of-sight scenarios, it's claimed.
In transmission the xRF focuses radio energy towards the client, effectively reducing the amount of multipath to which the client's receiver is exposed. This increases the system's range and throughput by 2-3 times compared to existing solutions, says Horsebridge.
GO xRF technology is alos claimed to be the only smart antenna technology that operates in a multi-channel access solution supporting both sectorial and omni-directional base stations.
Horsebridge says it has successfully installed the Go Net wireless solution in Northlew, Cornwall, a village previously un-serviced by broadband and the first of its kind in the UK to provide a wireless network for its residents.