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AirHop Communications
Company typePrivate
IndustryMobile Wireless Communications
Founded2007
HeadquartersSan Diego, CA
Area served
Worldwide
Products
List
  • eSON software for 3G/4G wireless small cell basestations
Website[www.airhopcomm.com]

AirHop Communications is a privately funded American corporation based in San Diego, CA. AirHop develops radio access network (RAN) software that addresses the installation, operation and performance challenges of multi-layer, small cell deployments in 3G and 4G networks.[1][2]Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). AirHop’s customers are typically base station equipment vendors for wireless network operators.[3]

Technology

AirHop holds 20 patent applications for its eSON™ [self-organized networking (SON) software.[2] eSON enables carriers to build 3G and 4G LTE heterogeneous small cell networks (“het-nets”) to augment existing macro base stations.[4] Many carriers are using small cell networks to fill in gaps in 4G networks due to signal attenuation and add capacity to 3G and 4G networks.[5]

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project defined a SON specification to allow basestations to discover each other when inserted into a network and to adjust their RF signal strength to avoid overlap and interference.[6][7] AirHop was founded to extend this technology beyond initial network start-up to also provide ongoing interference management and spectrum reuse.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). This gives carriers the ability to both initialize the network and ongoing RAN intelligence to adjust signal levels as small cells come online and overlap with each other.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). eSON also optimizes spectrum reuse, enabling macrocells and small cells share the same spectrum without interference.[6][8][9]

History

AirHop was founded in 2007 by three engineers in charge of 3G research and development at Texas Instruments. They foresaw that the present wireless network infrastructure would have to change as part of the move to 4G technologies to support mobile broadband.[2][6][10] They left TI in October 2007 to begin developing SON software.[3]

The company announced a $1 million investment in September 2009 and added several wireless industry executives to its management team.[1][3][11] AirHop showcased the first of its LTE solutions by running an HD video transmission demonstration on Texas Instruments’ TCI1648x DSP at CTIA Wireless in March 2009.[12] In November 2009, the company announced its first product, eSON,[13] and in February 2010, AirHop partnered with Continuous Computing and picoChip at Mobile World Congress 2010 to demonstrate a reference design for eSON based on picoChip’s picoXcell high speed packet access (HSPA) platform.[14][15] In October 2010, AirHop and picoChip announced the integration of eSON with picoChip’s 3G picoXcell™ PC302 HSPA+ platform.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). AirHop and Argela demonstrated eSON on a commercial 3G femtocell at Mobile World Congress in February 2011[16] and its first 4G/LTE customer was announced in May with the introduction of Wazco’s Metrostorm™ metrocell.[17][18][19]

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Partnerships

Continuous Computing, NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., Texas Instruments

Industry Recognition

AirHop has received industry recognition for its technology. The company was named to Light Reading Mobile’s list of Top Ten Startups to Watch in 2011,[20] was named a FierceWireless Fierce 15 Top Wireless Company for 2010[21] and earned the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley SPIFFY Award for Most Disruptive Technology in 2011.[22][23]

References

  1. ^ a b SoCalTech, 9/08/11: SoCalTech Interview with Yan Hui
  2. ^ a b c San Diego Union Tribune, 11/29/10: AirHop Aims to Unclog Wireless Jams
  3. ^ a b c Xconomy, 11/24/09: AirHop, Adapting to “Dense” Wireless of the Future, Develops Self-Organizing Networking Software
  4. ^ Wikipedia: Heterogeneous network
  5. ^ Wikipedia: Self-organizing network
  6. ^ a b c Urgent Communications, 11/11/09: LTE Vendors Seek Greater Network Automation
  7. ^ 3GPP
  8. ^ Urgent Communications, 5/18/11: Small-Cell Product Provides Operators with LTE Capacity Options
  9. ^ LTE World: AirHop Announced Evolved Self-Organized Networking Solution for 4G/LTE Wireless Networks
  10. ^ Wireless Week, 9/05/11:Newcomers Set Their Sights on LTE
  11. ^ Wireless Week, 9/14/09: AirHop Garners $1M, Adds Management
  12. ^ Highbeam Business: AirHop Communications Partners With TI to Demonstrate the First of Its LTE Solutions at CTIA Wireless 2009
  13. ^ Connected Planet: AirHop Announced Evolved Self-Organized Networking Solution for 4G/LTE Wireless Networks
  14. ^ picoChip.com: AirHop Communications and Continuous Computing demonstrate world’s first coordinated real-time self organizing network solution for small cells on Picochip platform
  15. ^ Mobility TechZone: AirHop and Continuous Computing Announce Small-Cell Reference Design Based on picoChip's HSPA Platform
  16. ^ Light Reading: AirHop, Argela Announce Demo Femto with SON
  17. ^ Light Reading Mobile, 5/16/11: Startup Brews an LTE Small Cell Storm
  18. ^ Fierce Wireless, 5/16/11: Wazco Introduces Multi-Sector Small-Cell LTE Basestation
  19. ^ Wireless Week, 5/16/11: Wazco’s MetroCell Adds Oomph to LTE
  20. ^ Light Reading Mobile, 12/24/10: 2010 Top Ten: Startups to Watch
  21. ^ Fierce Wireless, 5/18/10: FierceWireless Announces Annual “Fierce 15″ Winners
  22. ^ RCR Wireless, 2/28/11: SPIFFY Awards Celebrate Innovators
  23. ^ Telecom Council of Silicon Valley, 2/25/11:Fourth Annual Telecom Council SPIFFY Award Winners Announced


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