NGMN - Reconfigurable Beyond 3G Testbed

[Guillaume FORTAINE-2]

Misters,

Let me introduce myself : Guillaume FORTAINE, Consultant Service
Strategy and Innovation. It's an honor for me to send this mail to You.

I am definitely aware of Your Preeminence in the Telecommunications
World.


First of all, as Project Officers New Paradigms and Experimental
Facilities, it would be an honor for me to meet You there :

http://www.panlab.net/events/panlab-seminar-2008.html

Panlab Seminar - Testbed Federation in Europe
13-14 May 2008, Dinard, France (Brittany)



Working with Xilinx :

Multi-mode: Increasing supply chain efficiency and reducing radio …
http://www.openbasestation.org/Newsletters/February2008/Xilinx.htm


Fig.3 illustrates a Multi-Modal Radio, where all DSP processing is
accomplished using FPGA technology. Signal processing techniques are
deployed such that any mixture of air interface waveform can be realized
using a single device and the board shown is capable of CDMA2000, WiMAX,
TD-SCDMA, UMTS and 3GPP-LTE.




We are currently establishing a new Business Model to simplify the
value-chain by working directly with the end user, in this case, the
Operator.

The value-added for Them :

a) CAPEX :

Reduced cost by skipping the various OEMs margins.


b) OPEX :

The power of FPGAs combining the flexibility of Software and the Speed
of Hardware will ensure :

1) Spectrum Agility with SDR and a seamless path to new 4G (UWB) and 2G
(EDGE Evolution) Standards

2) Very precise High-Throughput Network Simulation and Accelerated
Routing + Backplane Reconfiguration

3) Reduced costs for Accelerated Multimedia Servers/end-to-end broadcast
chains





I am definitely aware of the various International Networking Testbeds :

http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/RelatedProjects

http://www.panlab.net/testbed-repository.html

http://www.one-lab-2.org/

http://www.celtic-initiative.org/Projects/NETLAB/abstract-netlab.asp

http://www.dai-labor.de/index.php?id=885&L=1




However, we are definitely convinced that no one will meet the Operators
requirements in terms of Spectrum Agility and Network Backplane
Flexibility ensuring cost competitiveness in a mid-term range :

*Making mobile broadband networks a success – Operator requirements*

Hartmut Kremling (CTO Vodafone D2)

Download Presentation as PDF
<http://www.ngmn.org/fileadmin/content/documents/events/2_Hartmut_Kremling.pdf>







That's why I am currently working with Xilinx, the number 1 Dynamically
Reconfigurable FPGAs Supplier, to set up a Self Reconfigurable Network
Testbed :

A self-reconfiguring platform
<http://www.kandeco.com/publications/presentations/srp.ppt>


*Berlin‘s Beyond-3G Testbed and Serviceware Framework for Advanced* …
<http://www.bib3r.de/fileadmin/pdf/bib3r.de.pdf>



Moreover, we plan to build it in a modular way, thus ensuring to IWPC
consortium goals and providing an healthy competition amongst the
various suppliers :

http://www.iwpc.org/about.shtm

/*APPENDIX*/

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/*SUPPLY CHAIN MODEL IN THE WIRELESS & RF PACKAGING INDUSTRY*/

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Below is a model describing the supply chain of the wireless & RF
Packaging Industry. One of the goals of the consortium is to conduct
interviews with ALL levels of the supply chain and invite members of
all levels of the supply chain to take part in the interactive
Forums. This concept provides invaluable visibility up and down the
supply chain to all present at the Forums.




and to show to the potential customers how to integrate seamlessly the
product into their core network.




We would greatly appreciate to have Your Comments on this idea.

We look forward to Your Answer,

Best Regards,

Guillaume FORTAINE


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