The Sittingbourne-based company’s product offerings are based on its mSystem technology, which uses multiple access radios and mesh routing architecture for wireless networking. The MobilAP, as its new product is called, combines mSystem with TD-CDMA, a 3G technology developed and marketed by IPWireless Inc from San Bruno, California, for backhaul from the AP over a cellular network.
TD-CDMA, also known as UMTS TDD, is one of a number of broadband wireless technologies designed to deliver cellular services optimized for data, whereas both W-CDMA (the 3G version of GSM) and cdma2000 (the flavor of 3G deployed by CDMA operators) are both optimized for voice. Commercial deployments of the technology are either in operation or underway in a number of countries, including Australia, Czech Republic, Germany and Japan, while Sprint Nextel in the US and Orange in the UK are both running tests.
With the MobilAP product, cellular operators running services based on TD-CDMA will be able to offer to backhaul WiFi traffic for bus and train operators, or indeed in limousine services.
