PHYTunes, a leader in connectivity at the edge enabling wireless-wireline convergence, announced it has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant to accelerate research and development of technology to improve connectivity for everyone by enabling widespread 5G coverage at significantly lower cost and substantial energy savings in a compressed timeframe.
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The technology will be used to solve the indoor 5G problem and accelerate 5G deployment and ubiquitous 5G availability in both urban and rural areas. This will have major positive ramifications in terms of bridging the digital divide across different geographical areas and across different socioeconomic groups, by bringing new opportunities for telework, tele-education, telehealth, and telemedicine to traditionally underserved and unrepresented communities.
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Phase I research will address critical technical issues related to the overall feasibility and performance of cellular subscriber line (CSL) technology with the development of a detailed simulation platform and network-side and customer-side prototype units using existing radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) components. The project will allow mid-band and high-band cellular signals to be carried over existing twisted-pair copper wires, as well as coaxial, fiber and Ethernet wires, to enable the delivery of 5G-based services across barriers that signals delivered over the air from a tower cannot penetrate.
“The SBIR Phase I project has the potential to accelerate development towards a low-cost, low-energy solution that solves the problem of extending 5G coverage to the interior of homes and buildings,” said Dr. Akula Aneesh Reddy, Chief Scientist of PHYTunes. “We are proud to be working with the National Science Foundation to further develop our work around wireless wireline convergence and look forward to working with our service provider partners to further validate our work in a real-world network environment.”
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