iBurst becomes IEEE standard
In a recent statement, the IEEE – a globally-recognised standards setting body – said that it has approved a new standard for mobile broadband wireless access (MBWA).
The statement reads: “IEEE Std 802.20, ‘Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks – Standard Air Interface for Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Systems Supporting Vehicular Mobility – Physical and Media Access Control Layer Specification,’ will enable the worldwide deployment of cost-effective, spectrum-efficient, ubiquitous, always-on and interoperable multi-vendor mobile broadband wireless access networks.”
Kyocera, the developers of the iBurst technology, said that it is pleased that its iBurst-based technology proposal was approved as a new standard for IEEE 802.20 by the IEEE Standards Association.
“Having been a draft standard since January 2006, Kyocera is gratified that iBurst has finally been approved as an 802.20 standard by the IEEE Standards Association,” said Masashi Yano, general manager of the corporate communication system equipment division at Kyocera.
“With this industry standard approval, we are expecting to expand the iBurst service area to more and more countries.”
The IEEE 802.20 standard specifies physical and medium access control layers of an air interface for interoperable mobile broadband wireless access systems, operating in licensed bands below 3.5GHz, and optimised for IP-data transport, with peak data rates per user in excess of 1Mbps.
It supports various vehicular mobility classes up to 250Km/h in a metropolitan area network (MAN) environment and targets spectral efficiencies, sustained user data rates and numbers of active users that are all significantly higher than achieved by existing mobile systems.
iBurst, or HC-SDMA, has been commercially rolled out in more than ten countries and has been approved as a standard by American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Telecommunication Union Radio Communication Sector ( ITU-R).
In South Africa iBurst is used by WBS to provide fixed wireless broadband services to consumers, competing head on with established technologies such as ADSL and HSDPA.
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