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Many operators have launched femtocell service including Vodafone, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, Verizon and Mobile TeleSystems.
Lime’s single-chip multi-band, multi-standard broadband transceiver IC gives outstanding RF performance for a wide range of applications including femto / picocells, repeaters, home broadband and emerging / future applications, such as GNU radio.
Furthermore, its transceivers support a variety of different standards and frequencies, including WiMAX, 3G and LTE, enabling a single design to be created and rolled out for virtually any wireless standard or frequencies.
The transceiver gives considerable design flexibility and enables manufacturers to more easily work with the vast number of standards and frequency bands that would otherwise require a different device for each geographic market.
Small cell base stations
The flexibility of Lime’s IC has been utilised by a large number of organisations to create residential and enterprise femtocells; and picocells for a wide range of standards, including CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX and LTE.
Repeaters
Lime’s ICs have been used to create wireless broadband repeater units to increase the wireless network coverage.
Lime supports the GNU software development toolkits. Hobbyists, academics and commercial organisations are already using the freely available toolkits to support wireless communications research and implement real-world radio systems.
White space refers to underutilised portions of the radio frequency spectrum. Large portions of the spectrum are currently unused, in particular the frequencies allocated for analogue television and those used as buffers to prevent interference between channels. Lime's transceiver operates in all the frequencies of interest for white space applications.
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