RE: US Broadband Summit9 Nov 2023 20:21
Another company pushing the boundaries of FWA is Milpitas, California-based Tarana Wireless, which has been gaining traction with its G1 distributed massive MIMO systems that are underpinned by three custom chipsets, one of which comes from Ethernity networks, which is supplying Tarana with its ENET Flow Processor FPGA systems-on-chip.
Its end-to-end system, the company claims, enables non line-of-sight connectivity (or “sees around corners and rejects interference” in the company’s own words) using its “unique” signal processing techniques.
The 12-year-old company, which raised $50 million in May this year to take its total funding to more than $200 million, has the advantage of boasting former Nokia executive Basil Alwan, one of the most respected technology leaders in the telecoms industry, as its Executive Chairman and CEO. That will help Tarana to build on its existing customer base of wireless ISPs such as US rural service provider Wisper Internet and MTN in South Africa and engage in conversations with the likes of BT, which is exploring the potential of using Tarana’s technology to supplement its 5G and fibre broadband rollouts with an affordable broadband connectivity solution.