RCR Wireless Features White Spaces Article from xG Technology

March 8th, 2012

RCR Wireless logo for blog RCR Wireless Features White Spaces Article from xG TechnologyRCR Wireless has published an article written by xG Technology's Marketing Director, Daniel Carpini, on applying cognitive radio technologies to TV white spaces spectrum. RCR Wireless is a leading industry publication and its content is often rebroadcast across different channels.

The key xG-focused takeaways from the article are that:
- cognitive radio systems bring exciting capabilities and economics to fully mobile white spaces networks that were not possible before;
- effective white spaces systems must be able to perform cognitive (intelligent) sensing and decision-making at the edge of the network (which xMax does); and
- to be cost-effective, wide-area mobile broadband networks deployed using white spaces must incorporate features like advanced interference mitigation and innovative antenna technologies like MIMO (these are key xMax capabilities).

The complete article can be read at this link.

xG Invited to Present on Disaster Recovery Communications at Wireless Innovation Forum

February 29th, 2012

wireless innovation forum xG Invited to Present on Disaster Recovery Communications at Wireless Innovation Forum xG Technology has been invited to be a featured presenter at the Wireless Innovation Forum's Workshop on Disaster Recovery Communications.  The event is being held at Holiday Inn on the Bay in San Diego, CA on March 15, 2012. xG's Vice President of Marketing, Rick Rotondo, will deliver the presentation.

The awesome power of large natural disasters or man-made incidents often compromises civilian and emergency communications over a large area. Traditional techniques have concentrated on building stronger terrestrial infrastructure to withstand such events, but these have proved insufficient in many cases. Consequently, command, communications, control, and situational awareness can be compromised.

xG's xMax cognitive radio network solution has the potential to close a critical communications capability gap by providing disaster response organizations with an affordable, independent, enterprise handheld wireless service. The system offers the following benefits that are critical to the public safety/disaster response community:

• Self-Frequency Planning – the system comes up automatically and finds available frequencies, no manual frequency co-ordination required
• Self-Optimizing – the system uses Dynamic Spectrum Access technology to maximize throughput and reliability, delivering a licensed spectrum experience in unlicensed spectrum
• Leverages existing smartphones, laptops, tables, etc. directly into the xMax mobile radio network to save costs and offer unmatched applications and functionality
• End-To-End IP Architecture – simplifies integration with LTE, P25 and other networks via industry standard interfaces and protocols
• Tactical and Scalable Deployments – rapidly deployable size and weight, proven integration with satellite and point to point backhaul radios
• Difficult to Jam or Hack – Dynamic channel/band hoping makes attacks and penetrations far more difficult than traditional radio systems

xMax is fully expeditionary and provides a level of resilience and continuity of operations that safeguards mission-assured communications, regardless of circumstance.

Daniel Carpini
Marketing Director
xG Technology, Inc.

xG Technology Granted Eight Additional Patents Since Nov. 15, 2011, increasing IP Portfolio By 42%

February 21st, 2012

news press release  logo1 xG Technology Granted Eight Additional Patents Since Nov. 15, 2011, increasing IP Portfolio By 42%In a press release issued today, xG Technology announced that, in the three months since receiving an expert Intellectual Property (IP) valuation by AccuVal Associates, xG has been issued an additional eight patents, growing its granted US patent portfolio by over 40 per cent.

The newly issued patents cover key areas of the rapidly growing cognitive radio market, including spectrum sharing, media access control (MAC), mobile VoIP signaling and interference detection/mitigation.

"We continue to build and strengthen the intellectual property foundation of our wireless business and are actively employing these inventions to deliver industry leading mobile broadband and cognitive networking solutions to multiple vertical markets", said John Coleman, Chief Executive Officer of xG. “Securing patent recognition and protection for our growing portfolio of intellectual property is a key component of our business strategy and we will continue to innovate by leveraging our substantial R&D capabilities”.

The Directors of xG believe that patent portfolios are widely recognized as key assets in the mobile communications sector. For example, Google cited a significant IP portfolio as a key driver of its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola’s Mobility.

As of the date of this release, xG’s United States patent portfolio includes 27 patents granted, with an additional 34 applications patent pending. Its foreign patent portfolio totals 138 patent matters (issued and pending).

Daniel Carpini
Marketing Director
xG Technology, Inc.

xG Technology is a Featured Presenter and Exhibitor at Super WiFi Summit

February 17th, 2012

superwi fi summit xG Technology is a Featured Presenter and Exhibitor at Super WiFi SummitxG Technology was a featured presenter and exhibitor at the Super WiFi Summit, which was held in Miami Beach, FL Feb.1-3, 2012. The Super WiFi Summit explored the potential for White Spaces to deliver a broadband alternative.  Free and open spectrum has created substantial business opportunities and economic activity. In just 10 years, WiFi went from almost being unknown to more than 250 million active WiFi access devices and multi-billion dollars in revenue. The Super WiFi Summit discussed the latest areas for growth and change.

There was a high level of activity at the xG booth, where a number of attendees expressed interest in xMax as a potential solution to wireless network deployment challenges they are facing both in the US and abroad. Some images from the show can be seen below.

xG's VP of Marketing, Rick Rotondo, participated in a panel discussion that covered innovative White Spaces network solutions.  Rick gave a presentation entitled “What’s So Super About Super WiFi” where he positioned our interference mitigation technology as a solution to interference resulting from Super WiFi deployments. Julius Knapp, head of the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology, was one of the attendees at the presentation. xG has briefed him on its technology during prior meetings with FCC office and at other industry events.

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Daniel Carpini
Marketing Director
xG Technology, Inc.

xG Demonstrates xMax Data Capabilities

February 15th, 2012

press release logo1 xG Demonstrates xMax Data CapabilitiesxG Technology has announced that it has demonstrated at its facility in Sunrise, Florida the over the air transmission and receipt of data by off-the-shelf smartphones using xG’s proprietary xMax technology. This new capability adds to xMax’s proven voice and short messaging features and will enable xG to offer a single fully integrated mobile solution capable of delivering Everything over Internet Protocol (EoIP) to any IP enabled end user device.

“Integration of the different elements of the network and linking to normal off-the-shelf smartphones was a critical step in implementing xMax's over the air interface and validates the overall system design, hardware implementation and software development of the new product set”, according to Scott Garlington, Vice President of Engineering at xG Technology. “The engineering team will now focus on performance enhancement, such as xG’s proprietary interference mitigation techniques, and cost reduction efforts that will replace the high cost base station with a low cost access point, with the aim of making the xMax system commercially available later this year.”

Customer demonstrations for xMax 2.0 cognitive radio systems are expected to take place in the second and third quarters of 2012 and commercial availability of xMax 2.5 is expected by the end of 2012.

The full press release can be read at this link.

Daniel Carpini
Marketing Director
xG Technology, Inc.

xG Presents at NTCA Wireless Symposium Rural Telecom Show

January 14th, 2012

NTCA Wireless Symposium 2012 xG Presents at NTCA Wireless Symposium Rural Telecom ShowxG Technology was an exhibitor and featured presenter at the NTCA 2012 Wireless Symposium and WiFi Expo which took place in New Orleans, LA Jan. 11-13, 2012.

The event targeted rural telco service providers and vendors from across the nation. xG took the opportunity to show these carriers how the xMax solution could help them maximize their broadband subsidies and expand their service offerings beyond their current DSL footprint.

During the event, George Schmitt, Chief Executive Officer of MB Technology Holdings, LLC (the parent company of xG Technology), participated in a panel discussion covering next generation rural broadband deployments. George’s presentation generated significant interest from rural carriers and his session had one of the highest number of attendees.

 
 
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xG Featured in Defense Systems Article on Mobile Devices in the Military

January 6th, 2012

Defense Systems Logo1 xG Featured in Defense Systems Article on Mobile Devices in the MilitaryxG Technology was one the companies featured in an article that appeared in Defense Systems entitled "Ruggedization Required for Mobile Devices on the Network." The article discussed the ongoing efforts to configure civilian technology for military purposes. Stringent military certification requirements are keeping rugged versions of civilian smart phones, tablets, notebooks and other handheld computers in the pipeline.

Mike McCarthy, director of operations at the Army’s Mission Command Complex, part of the Brigade Modernization Command, is heading up that effort and was interviewed for the article. Commenting on xG, Mike said he has been impressed by the company's frequency spectrum scanning technology. “It essentially continues to look for open spectrum, so if something comes on to the frequency it’s using, it moves there almost instantly,” he said.

This “frequency hopping,” which McCarthy calls “a potential game-changer,” protects information sent on devices such as smart phones. During a test, a military jammer managed to shut down all the Army’s communications systems except for the xG network’s xMax solution.

Also quoted in the article was Rick Rotondo, xG Technology's VP of Marketing.  "xMax is frequency-agnostic and can be flexibly deployed to the needs of the Army and other DOD agencies,” he said.

The full article can be read at this link.

Daniel Carpini
Marketing Director
xG Technology, Inc.

xG Technology Discusses Rural Broadband with FCC

January 5th, 2012

fcc logo xG Technology Discusses Rural Broadband with FCCAs reported in Urgent Communications, representatives of xG Technology recently met with FCC officials about the possibility of the company’s cognitive-radio system being allowed to operate at higher power levels than other unlicensed technologies in rural areas. This is part of an effort to bring broadband to underserved areas of the country.

“The key item is to increase power in ultra-rural areas,” Pertti Alapuranen, xG Technology’s chief scientist, said during an interview with Urgent Communications editor Donny Jackson. “This is an idea basically to reduce the cost for operators.”

During meetings last month, xG Technology CEO John Coleman and other representatives met with FCC officials to discuss the characteristics of the company’s xMax system, which is designed to deliver commercial-grade voice and data services over unlicensed spectrum. No formal requests were made during the trip, but xG Technology proposed the notion that xMax systems deployed in rural areas be allowed to radiate four times as much power as other Part 15 equipment in the 900 MHz unlicensed band, so fewer cell sites would be needed to provide coverage in low-population areas.

“What xG was asking the FCC basically was to increase the radiated power by a factor of four,” Alapuranen said. “The goal was not to go there and get a waiver, but to discuss the issue and get the facts in front of people, so there can be more work done and maybe make a waiver request later.

The full article can be read at this link.

Daniel Carpini
Marketing Director
xG Technology, Inc.

TMCnet Blog: “xG Technology Making Progress”

December 31st, 2011

TMCnet logo TMCnet Blog: xG Technology Making ProgressxG Technology has been featured in a TMCnet blog post entitled xG Technology Making Progress.

TMCnet CEO Rich Tehrani authored the piece and pointed to recent news items from xG, including the signing of a Teaming Agreement with integrator Force 3, and the $15 million sale of the Broward and Dade counties territory for the exclusive right to deploy xMax.

Said Rich Tehrani, "A few years back I was literally excoriated for even considering the idea that the company had viable technology. It seems based on recent progress the company has more supporters than detractors. Many of these detractors were quite hostile actually and attacked me directly – for basically recording in video and words what I saw with my own eyes (here is a link to many of the company's videos – many made by myself and TMC)."

xG Signs Teaming Agreement with Military and Federal Government Provider Force 3

December 24th, 2011

force 3 xG Signs Teaming Agreement with Military and Federal Government Provider Force 3xG Technology has announced that it has signed a Teaming Agreement with Force 3, Inc. a Crofton, Maryland-based technology integrator and solutions provider.

xG has been selected by Force 3 to be a named strategic partner in the proposal Force 3 will submit under the ITES-3H (Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-3 Hardware) contract awards process. The Army will issue its RFP (Request for Proposal) in February 2012, and the award will be announced in the summer of 2012.

If Force 3 is awarded the US Army ITES-3H contract, xG's xMax cognitive radio solutions and services will be used to fulfill the cellular wireless component of the award. The xMax cognitive radio solution was deployed earlier this year in six-month field trials conducted by the US Army, as well as by technicians in the Army Research laboratory. Army evaluators reported the xMax system "performed as advertised."

In addition to providing xG prospective customers with a streamlined procurement path for obtaining its products, the Agreement will give xG the opportunity to benefit from joint marketing activities with Force 3, as well as access to other Force 3 strategic value chain partners.

If chosen to fulfill the award by the Department of the Army, Force 3 will serve as the prime contractor and xG would enter into a formal subcontractor agreement with Force 3 to supply and deliver xMax products and services in fulfillment of the contact.

Force 3 has a proven history with the Department of Defense, having provided it with products, services and support to nearly 150 locations around the world since 1991. Force 3 is a Cisco Gold Partner, VMware Premier Partner, and Velocity Advantage and Authorized Services Network Partner for EMC Corporation.

The press release can be viewed at this link.

Daniel Carpini
Marketing Director
xG Technology, Inc.