Powerwave Technologies Inc. said that its Universal WiMAX Digital Radio Head (DRH) has been named the winner of the 2008 Product Innovation Award in the “WiMAX” category, by Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication. The awards recognize vendors from all over the world that are supporting essential and incremental technology advances through products and solutions that raise the bar for innovation in all areas of information technology. Designed for operation with next-generation base stations, Powerwave’s universal WiMAX DRH is an IEEE 802.16e transceiver, featuring Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) electrical or optical interfaces, which can be optimized for customer specific applications. The CPRI interface supports redundancy and carries bi-directional signal and control data, including alarms for antenna VSWR, LNA failure, digital input overdrive and erroneous configuration requests from the baseband unit.
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