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Vanu sets up R&D centre in Bangalore
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 03:05 IST
Bangalore: Vanu, a software solution company based in the U.S. has opened its research and development centre in Bangalore. The company provides software radio solutions for cellular operators. The centre will focus on Enhanced General Packet Radio Service (EGPRS) and Enhanced Data rates for GSM (EDGE) technologies employed by cellular operators, reported Business Standard.
The company's works at the Bangalore centre include those relating to 3G technology, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) and Radio Network Controller (RNC) development. "By tapping India's software engineering talent, we will speed up the pace of innovation while offering solutions that are tailored to emerging markets, particularly India's rural communities. We intend to expand staff starting next year to develop 3G and 4G waveforms in India," said Vanu Bose, CEO, Vanu.
Founded in 1998, Vanu has developed a solution called Anywave Software Radio solution, which helps cellular service providers operate multiple standards such as GSM and CDMA on a single platform. It utilizes open standards architecture with each wireless standard. All signal processing is developed in high-level software running on Linux and general purpose servers.
"This eliminates the use of proprietary chipsets and delivers ongoing price-performance improvements. It also significantly reduces backhaul costs and enables new wireless standards and system capacity to be added through remote software downloads. The Anyway Base Station is the first software defined radio (SDR) to achieve certification from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)," said Bose.
"We are in talks with all leading wireless carriers who are planning to offer both CDMA and GSM services. These companies can greatly reduce their investments on setting up infrastructure by deploying the Anyway Base Stations. We are also in talks with mobile tower companies," he added.
"The technology has the potential to change the entire rural wireless landscape in India by allowing wireless carriers to easily add new standards and upgrade their networks through simple software downloads," said Pradeep Malhotra, MD, Vanu India. Vanu has already conducted field trials of the technology in Tamil Nadu.