ABI Research Sees Hardware Taking a Holiday as SDR Flexes its Muscles.OYSTER BAY Oyster Bay, uninc. area (1990 pop. 6,687) of the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau co., SE N.Y., on N Long Island, on Long Island Sound; settled 1653. It is chiefly residential. , N.Y. -- According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the latest study from ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. Research, there is a growing shift to mobile phone base station equipment defined and upgraded by software. This means that customers of mobile data services will receive more detailed price and billing information than ever before, while operators can offer more varied products and enjoy increased revenue. Most base stations were traditionally hardware-based. That meant, among other things, limits on the ways networks could count and invoice the services used by customers. A customer's data downloads might be counted in seconds, or data packets, or megabytes, none of which had much obvious relation to their own view of the transaction. And only when the bill arrived would customers learn what charges they'd incurred. Enter a new paradigm New Paradigm In the investing world, a totally new way of doing things that has a huge effect on business. Notes: The word "paradigm" is defined as a pattern or model, and it has been used in science to refer to a theoretical framework. , "SDR See software defined radio. ": software definable radio. Ray Jodoin, ABI Research's director of wireless infrastructure research, says that SDR used to have a very narrow definition, now broadened to include anything that controls or implements infrastructure within software. The change to SDR is being led by electronics giants Alcatel and Motorola, both leveraging expertise gained from partnerships or acquisitions. In what Alcatel refers to as the NGN (Next Generation Networks) An umbrella term for mixed voice and data networks running over the IP protocol. See IP Multimedia Subsystem. or "next generation network", says Jodoin, operators can bill for data services in a very understandable way: "If you want to download a video clip, they'll charge you one Euro. Download football scores immediately after the end of a game, that's 50 Euro-cents. If you want a summary of scores for all of yesterday's games, that's 20 cents. It's not only a context that people can understand, but as implemented by the Orange network, it can tell you the price before you download it." The latest edition of ABI Research's "Wireless Infrastructure Quarterly Service" turns the spotlight on this new paradigm in network management, and on what it means for hardware makers, service providers and customers alike. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , ABI Research maintains global operations that support annual research programs, quarterly intelligence services and market reports in wireless, automotive, semiconductors, broadband, and energy. Their market research products can be found on the Web at www.abiresearch.com, or by calling 516.624.3113. |
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