29 June 2009 - picoChip named winner at inaugural Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2009
picoChip's cost-optimized PC302 and PC312 picoXcell™ SoCs won the enabling technology category at the inaugural Femtocell Industry Awards. The awards recognize outstanding achievement within, and contributions to, the femtocell industry. The Femto Forum is the independent industry association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide.
The winning devices, the picoChip PC302 and PC312 picoXcell baseband SoCs are cost-optimized system-on-chips, supporting the 3GPP's new femtocell standard. They embody five years of femtocell experience, comprehensive interoperability testing and numerous real-world deployments.
17 June 2009 - Starent Networks, picoChip and Continuous Computing to Demonstrate 3GPP Standard Iuh Femtocell Interoperability
One of the impediments in femtocell deployment is lack of standards. Standardization will allow operators to deploy femtocell and network equipment in a multi-vendor environment, thereby opening up competition, accelerating commercial deployments and lowering costs.
Achieving a milestone on the route to standardization, three industry providers: Starent Networks, picoChip and Continuous Computing, are demonstrating the new 3GPP Iuh Femtocell standard during a live demonstration of the 3GPP Release 8 Iuh interface between the 3G Home Node-B (HNB) and 3G Home Node-B Gateway (HNB-GW).
17 June 2009 - 4Home, Sensus unveil partnership details
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based 4Home's technology is getting traction from the likes of major electric utilities Southern Company (NYSE:SO) and Cleco (NYSE:CNL), with the help of its partner Raleigh, N.C.-based Sensus, a heavyweight in the meter industry.
Sensus provides data collection and metering solutions for water, gas and electric utilities around the world. The partnership—announced earlier this year to create home-area networking (HAN) and demand response (DR) solutions for utilities—combines Sensus' metering expertise with 4Home's software platform of digital and physical home control services.
02 June 2009 - The convergence "time bomb"
Consumer demands for converged mobile communications and entertainment will drive new integration approaches, says Chet Babla, product line director at PC mobile TV company Mirics. In this podcast, Babla talks about the coming convergence "time bomb," Mirics' software-configurable mobile TV system and extending the company's solution to mobile phones.
02 June 2009 - Interview With Jim Hunter, CTO and Chief Architect of 4Home
4Home is new in the area of conservation management, but we are quickly establishing ourselves as a leader. Conservation management not only encompasses the SmartGrid as defined by NIST standards today like electricity, and soon gas, but also water management. Our platform allows us to easily add these new services that equip utilities, property managers, and home dwellers alike with usable interfaces.
