Fairwaves will showcase a number of innovations for rural coverage with key strategic partners, and will provide 2G and 3G coverage which will be software-upgradeable to 4G. This will be backhauled over satellite with SES Networks with traffic terminated locally in Ghana. The passive infrastructure will include iengineering’s 20m concrete-less tower design with Greenpole solar power system. All elements including radio, satellite backhaul and power will be monitored by Fairwaves’ cloud-based monitoring system. Helios Towers are supporting the deployment with GIS analysis.

The overall aim of the trial is to bring Vodafone mobile coverage to 16,000 underserved people in remote communities in northern Ghana with innovative solutions optimised for the rural market.

“Fairwaves is really proud to have been selected by the GSMA and Vodafone Ghana as winners of this grant. The only way to achieve sustainable mobile broadband coverage in rural areas such as northern Ghana is by deploying new and innovative technologies such as software-defined radio base stations, solar power and satellite backhaul to crack the problem. We are really grateful to DFID and the GSMA for this grant which will help us to demonstrate this to the wider market.”

– Albert Gardiner, CEO, Fairwaves, Inc.

more details

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• XYNC – the ultimate low-cost massive MIMO SDR, with up to 32×32 transmit/receive channels
• XCOM – a compact, embedded x86 platform for SDR and other applications.

XYNC

XYNC (pronounced iks-sync) is your choice if you work on a massive MIMO system or have a large swath of spectrum to monitor. XYNC comes in the following variations:

XYNC is based on multiple synchronized XTRX SDRs, so the maximum achievable RF bandwidth is a function of the individual XTRX RF bandwidths.

Find more details and subscribe to updates on the CrowdSupply page.

XCOM

XCOM – is a compact, embedded x86 platform, which allows building inexpensive x86-based systems with special requirements:

• unattended operation
  • resilience in the face of power failures and power voltage fluctuation
  • can be reliably reflashed to a new software release remotely
  • Coreboot support
• supports different CPU models
• a compact, IP65+ enclosure
• passive cooling
• special features to support XTRX SDR, UmTRX SDR, and other SDRs

XCOM is a carrier board for a popular COM Express Type 10 modules. Relying on the Computer-On-Module (COM) ecosystem allows us to optimize XCOM for reliable unattended operation so that you don’t have to design something from scratch. At the same time, many different COM Express Type 10 modules are available, from a variety of companies, so using XCOM helps you avoid CPU model lock-in.

Different approaches to design an embedded x86 systems are summarized in the table below:

XCOM is designed to be the ultimate platform for the Fairwaves UmTRX and XTRX Software Defined Radios (SDRs), but it works just as well with other USB, Ethernet, and miniPCIe SDRs. Your device might be deep underwater. Or hanging from a weather balloon. Or orbiting the Earth!

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We designed XTRX, our latest software defined radio, with massive MIMO and 5G base stations in mind and it’s a fantastic endorsement that Airspan chose XTRX (with the RF chipset from our friends at LimeMicrosystems) for this UK5G testbed and our first 5G project.

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Feb 2, 2018, Koror, Republic of Palau

PT Waves, Palau’s second mobile operator, is now live!

PT Waves is a new low-cost mobile operator leveraging Fairwaves technology to empower residents and visitors of Palau. Thanks to Fairwaves low-cost technology and a turn-key approach the network was built for maybe 5x less than traditional solutions and in a record time of just few months. A lower level of investment will enable PT Waves to make mobile communication affordable for all in the country which has previously had only one operator and excessive calling rates too expensive for most of the population.

This project marks an important milestone for Fairwaves – we built an entire Telco up from scratch, not just extend the coverage of an existing operator. Fairwaves provides and manages the radio and core networks, the billing system and interconnection with the global telephone network.

This is also the first commercial launch of FairFi – a WiFi with cellular experience, integrated with 2G/4G networks. With FairFi voice calling and low-cost data share one bill and offer seamless user experience.

We are looking forward to offering the same turn-key approach to all the upstart operators around the world. Now you can profitably connect the places which you couldn’t connect with traditional telecom vendors.

Coming to MWC? Get in touch!

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XTRX is a tiny miniPCIe embedded versatile SDR. Up to 120MSPS 2×2 MIMO; 10 MHz – 3.7 GHz Rx/Tx range; built-in GPSDO and much more.

Please visit https://www.crowdsupply.com/fairwaves/xtrx to participate!

During the campaign you can get XTRX only for $199 – less than many other popular SDRs. The campaign pricing is lower than the retail price thanks to a support from our partners.

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We are glad to announce that Fairwaves will be presenting at the second Telecom Infra Project (TIP) OpenCellular workshop. The event is taking place in Nairobi, Kenya on the 19 and 20th of June 2017. The workshop will include hands-on demos of the latest hardware, keynote addresses and deployment stories.

OpenCellular is an open source hardware and software project designed and tested by Facebook that aims to bring a more affordable wireless access platform to remote areas through utilizing the benefits of open source on access technologies. The workshop will bring together the OpenCellular ecosystem, which includes the open-source developer community, mobile network operators, OEMs and regulators for a discussion on connectivity.

Fairwaves is an active participant of OpenCellular and TIP and together with other contributors we’re bringing cutting edge technologies and solutions to reduce the digital divide. At the workshop Fairwaves will present it’s latest developments in software defined systems and deployment stories.

The event will take place in iHub, an organisation known for its support of several open source communities across Kenya through hosting developer meet-ups and conferences.

Apply here by Friday, 26th May at 5pm EAT for an opportunity to attend the workshop for free and influence the conversation, policy and technology to get more people online.

See you in Nairobi!

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MWC with its festive spirit is a right time to announce something good. So we’re pleased to say about our collaboration with Facebook and other members of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) to develop the OpenCellular open source wireless platform. We believe this is a big step towards lowering the cost of mobile telecom infrastructure through open-source and software-defined architecture. See more details here.

Our tiny Software Defined Radio XTRX is evolving rapidly and we’ll be ready to demonstrate it. Come and get a sneak preview, XTRX will be spotted at Canonical and Amarisoft booths. And if you want to participate in early access program please drop us a line at xtrx.io

The best way to coordinate with us on MWC is our twitter @fairwaves; write us and stay tuned.

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Sample TIP members, source: www.telecominfraproject.com/members/

Fairwaves is pleased to announce its collaboration with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and Facebook to develop the OpenCellular open source wireless platform. Fairwaves is taking a key role in designing the new OpenCellular LTE base station, as well as in an ongoing work to improve existing OpenCellular GSM base station.

Fairwaves will also add Open Cellular to its product offering, becoming an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and distributor of OpenCellular.

The OpenCellular BTS

As part of its participation in TIP Fairwaves intends to contribute its UmTRX software-defined radio design to OpenCellular. UmTRX has been developed by Fairwaves into one of the world leading industrial-grade software-defined Radios (SDR) which lie at the core of the company’s range of UmSITE base stations and network architecture.

UmSITE-based networks have been designed to lower the cost of deployment while improving time to market and enabling innovative solutions for telecom operators. UmSITEs are ideally suited to rural applications and have been successfully field-tested and deployed by a number of Mobile Network Operators across the world helping some of them to lower the cost of deployment by up to 5x-10x. NGOs such as the Red Cross are also using UmTRX-based solutions for search and rescue operations while UmTRX is also used for spectrum monitoring, drone based networks and other innovative solutions.

“We are delighted to join TIP members, including Facebook, and play an active role in TIP’s OpenCellular project group. It fits perfectly with our ethos of lowering the cost of mobile telecom infrastructure through open-source and software-defined architecture. This is the only sustainable way to address the coverage gap in developing regions where sometimes 30%-40% of people don’t have access to a fundamental human need – communication.

With its 1W of output power the OpenCellular BTS is a natural extension of our product line into lower range systems.” – Alexander Chemeris, CTO and Founder

We invite everyone interested in innovating in the field to come and meet with us at the Mobile World Congress (MWC’17) and get a sneak preview of our next generation SDR board, called XTRX.

The XTRX software-defined Radio

About Fairwaves
Fairwaves is a Boston, MA, USA based fully integrated vendor of telecommunication solutions from standalone base stations to large scale fully managed mobile networks. Fairwaves technology allows deployments in places where few other solutions can operate sustainably.
Fairwaves is a well known supporter of open source, encouraging innovation in the telecom space.

For more information visit www.fairwaves.co or go to www.xtrx.io to see what’s next.

Contacts: alexander.chemeris@fairwaves.co albert.gardiner@fairwaves.co fairsales@fairwaves.co

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We’re happy to announce start of public sales of UmTRX 2.3.1 – the only widely available Software Defined Radio (SDR) designed specifically for telecom applications.
UmTRX 2.3.1 is a key part of our UmSITE base stations and are deployed on all continents and are suitable for both Siberia-cold and Sahara-hot temperatures (see UmSITE temperature tests).

UmTRX 2.3.1 is a compact dual-channel SDR built for embedded systems suitable for industrial, outdoor, harsh and remote environments. It is designed as a base station transceiver and thus has specific features required for this like power amplifier and external RF front-end control ports.

Find more information in the announcement on umtrx.org web-site and UmTRX 2.3.1 product page. More technical details are available in the UmTRX 2.3.1 datasheet.

Contact us for volume pricing.

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