The T-Mobile Venture Fund is making a investment in Flarion Technologies, a start-up offering an "IP-friendly" flash-OFDM wireless broadband system. Financial terms were not disclosed. Flarion said its technology lets mobile operators seamlessly connect corporate LANs with a wireless Wide Area Network with the speed and low packet latency that exceed corporate network requirements.
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- In November 2002, SK Telecom, a major Korean wireless service provider, made a strategic investment in Flarion Technologies. At the time, SK Telecom was conducting a field trial of Flarion's mobile broadband system using Flarion's RadioRouter base stations, deployed at SK Telecom's existing towers and utilizing SK Telecom's existing backhaul infrastructure. Flarion's PC 1000 Wireless PC Cards were installed in field trial users' laptops and PDAs.
Flarion's flash-OFDM mobile broadband system is a packet-switched radio access network with QoS capabilities that overlays onto a mobile operator's existing cell sites and spectrum. Flarion's platform provides a seamless routing interface to the operator's existing IP network. The company claims its RadioRouter offers an average sustainable throughput of 1.5 Mbps per sector in only 1.25 MHz of paired radio spectrum and burst rates as high as 3 Mbps.
