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Product Name: Xtendwave™ Solution for DSL
Product Description
AFBM™ is a modulation technology that provides significant
rate and reach improvements for wired or wireless media. AFBM™
utilizes wavelets, which have been historically utilized in oil exploration,
medical image processing and audio, image and video compression. Recent
improvements in processor speed and increases in silicon gate densities,
combined with our proprietary AFBM™ algorithms, have made
wavelet modulation realizable.
- Wavelets are waveforms that are bound in both frequency and duration.
- Wavelet transforms provide an efficient alternative to traditional Fourier
transforms used in communications modulation.
- Whereas Fourier transforms convert a signal into a continuous series of
sine waves of constant frequency and of infinite duration, most real-world
signals have a finite duration and contain a range of frequencies more
efficiently represented by wavelets.
- In communications, wavelet transforms enable more efficient bandwidth
utilization (packing bits per Hertz) and improved immunity to noise and
crosstalk.
AFBM™ technology is fundamental physical layer technology
that enables products through intellectual property integrated into chip
solutions produced by broadband chips suppliers and populated in infrastructure
equipment. Since AFBM™ is media agnostic, it can be applied to
copper, cable and wireless solutions, and provides for additional revenue and
higher profits for carriers, equipment manufacturers, and chip suppliers who
incorporate AFBM™ enabled products. The technology achieves
superior throughput and performance without relying on wire-bonding, power
boosting, compression, or other methods. All that is required is to substitute
an AFBM™ enabled product on each end of the loop - a simple
modem and line card upgrade using the existing backplane. This means the service
provider can use existing equipment and plant, with no need for external
repeater devices.
Xtendwave™ Solution for DSL
The driving force for Xtendwave™ is the pressing need for new broadband
technologies that increase the reach and bandwidth for DSL service providers. In
the U.S., there are over 20 million rural locations that cannot receive DSL or
any broadband service.
In 2009, the U.S. Congress allocated approximately $7 billion for enabling
rural broadband in the United States. Much of that expenditure as allocated to
the DSL service providers for building out the infrastructure of existing DSL
technology to reach those customers. With Xtendwave’s™ AFBM™
technology, such build-outs would be minimized.
That’s because Xtendwave’s™ AFBM™ technology can transmit
DSL signals a much farther distance than is possible with today’s fastest DSL
technologies, ADSL2+ and VDSL2. The current capabilities of Xtendwave’s™
technology versus these two technologies are shown below:
In addition, Xtendwave™ technology allows for an increased rate at an
equivalent distance when compared to ADSL2+ or VDSL2. This is a key benefit to
the DSL service provider, who is looking to offer bandwidth-intensive services
such as Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) to its customers. Xtendwave™
increases both the number of services that can be offered and the distance over
which those services can be offered, a key breakthrough for the DSL service
providers whose markets are challenged by other broadband solutions from their
competitors.
Another benefit of Xtendwave™ technology is that it is achieved without
adding additional equipment or regenerators. In an attempt to boost DSL signal
strength and reach, there has emerged a niche market for signal regenerators.
These devices are external to the DSL equipment, and require separate monitoring
and power sources. The technology has had only limited success, in large part
because of the high incremental costs of buying a new device, separately
installing, powering, and maintaining it. The key benefit of Xtendwave’s™
technology is that it is simply a new chipset integrated into new DSL line cards
and modems.
AFBM™ in Other Media
AFBM™ can also be utilized for other media to dramatically
increase data rate and reach. Specifically, AFBM™ can be
utilized to extend and provide additional cellular backhaul capacity as a T1
interface replacement over existing copper infrastructure. Cellular providers
spend an estimated $2 billion every year in cellular backhaul, the rapid growth
of bandwidth-intensive applications such as video has put pressure on the
cellular provider to increase capacity.
Current solutions include expensive fiber build-outs to increase capacity at
cellular base stations via Metro Ethernet or OCx services. By utilizing
Xtendwave’s™ AFBM™ technology, cellular providers can
significantly increase the capacity of 4-wire T1 service without having to
expend capital for costly fiber build-outs.
AFBM™ can also be used to increase coaxial capacity for the
cable TV providers. With the cable providers needing to offer phone, Internet,
and high definition TV over the same coaxial cable, the current capacity of
coaxial cable is quickly reaching its limit. In fact, competition has increased
significantly for the cable companies from the telephone companies who are
offering "fiber to the home" or "fiber to the curb" service to better meet the
needs of these high speed services. With the use of AFBM™, the
cable TV providers are able to increase coaxial capacity without the need for
capital-intensive build-outs of their networks.
Because AFBM™ is media agnostic, its ability to increase
rate and reach for wireless presents an excellent opportunity to improve all
wireless modulation. Distance limitations for Bluetooth and 802.11x technologies
are distance and rate challenged. Even WiMax and its "ubiquitous" coverage has
shown gaps in quality of service.
Company Details
Become the company that erases the distance and speed limitations of current
broadband technologies.
To extend the reach of wireless and wireline broadband via AFBM™
technology.
Mangement Team
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