1. Better Wireless
IN TODAY’S MOBILE WORLD
A-MAS offers the unique opportunity to expand
performance in all three dimensions simultaneously
for both a service and economic boost.
Complete MAS Software Solution from ArrayComm
ArrayComm A-MAS software is the industry’s most complete portfolio of MAS solutions,
providing our customers with a full range of performance enhancing alternatives.
Our software offers operators, base station manufacturers, and device makers the:
• Highest Performance. By combining adaptive and multiple-input, multiple-output
(MIMO) techniques, the innovative ArrayComm A-MAS solution will help operators
achieve the highest possible network benefits from all MAS approaches, throughout a
range of deployment scenarios.
• Easiest Implementation. A-MAS software runs on widely available computing
architectures and integrates into physical layers using clean, modular interfaces.
ArrayComm software is accompanied by base-station and client-device architecture
guidelines plus modules for resource scheduling. Both incorporate best practices from
real-world networks and years of operator feedback on the practicalities
of deployment.
• Lowest Risk. The robust A-MAS design reflects more than 15 years of ArrayComm
experience with commercial MAS-enabled system operation. This depth of experience
offers you substantial reduction in the technical risks that would otherwise accompany
the design and adoption of MAS solutions.
2. Operator’s cumulative cash position (millions)
network
build-out
1 2 3 4 5
+
–
operation through
subscriber, usage ramp Capacity drives ongoing
network costs
Coverage quality drives
subscriber retention costs
Range dictates capital cost of initial coverage
Client data rate influences costs of subscriber
acquisition effort
Both drive peak negative cash flow
Year
Better Technology
Network deployments, environmental conditions, and subscriber circumstances can vary
tremendously, even on a moment-to-moment basis. The best MAS solutions must keep
pace. The ArrayComm A-MAS solution uses an effective combination of signal processing
techniques – from interference cancellation and MIMO, to adaptive processing and spatial
multiplexing – to accomplish this. Our solution dynamically selects the optimal process-
ing mode for existing conditions, to ensure that systems are continually maximizing the
power of MAS technologies to meet customer expectations.
Optimizing a wireless system used to require significant tradeoffs between the desired
metrics of range, coverage, and capacity. A-MAS processing is able to expand the
performance curve in all three dimensions simultaneously – for the best of all possible
service scenarios.
Better Economics
ArrayComm offers network operators the ability to significantly improve the economics of
building and operating their wireless broadband networks through large gains in coverage
quality, capacity, and client data rates. With A-MAS, operators can deploy a network to
maximize cell range while simultaneously increasing network capacity. Operators not only
benefit from the lower equipment costs of fewer base stations, but also from continuing
reduced operational costs associated with cell site preparation, construction, and backhaul
build-out.
Our customers have found that the multidimensional performance improvements of
a network based on A-MAS, allows them the opportunities to design new services
and service plans to increase average revenue per user (ARPU). With these network
improvements come enhanced subscriber experiences resulting in lower churn and
higher subscriber counts.
With the ArrayComm A-MAS solution, network operators have the potential for higher
revenues, the reality of lower costs, and the confidence that a profitable broadband
wireless network can be within their reach.
3. Better Wireless from ArrayComm
ArrayComm offers a commercially ready, market-leading software package that allows
an equipment vendor to bring a high-performance, standards-compliant system to
market more quickly and effectively. Plus, our extensive experience with commercial
MAS applications will help achieve maximum benefits from the technology with the least
technical risk and development effort.
With 15 years of commercial experience in the field, our team is uniquely qualified to help
integrate and deploy A-MAS architectures into wireless equipment and networks, and to
deploy A-MAS-enabled equipment and networks. ArrayComm can become an invaluable
extension of a customer team throughout the product life cycle, in part by:
• Selecting the most reliable and robust system architecture to meet the goals of
wireless operators
• Optimizing hardware and software designs to achieve the most gain and flexibility with
the least cost and risk
• Collaborating on multi-antenna system architectures at all product layers
• Designing effective field test and equipment trial programs
