Software that fills a cell phone gap

Iria · Sep 23, 2007, 07:21 PM

Source: News.com
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Vanu Bose is the son of a fabled engineer, but he garnered no mercy when he presented his big idea at a technical conference in 1996.

Bose's graduate work at MIT involved using software to handle the radio function in a cellular phone. He remembers that after he successfully demonstrated his technology, an audience member stood up and dismissed it with: "Congratulations! You've just invented the world's most expensive cell phone."

Bose, a personable man, shrugged off the criticism. He expected that over time, the increasing processing speed of chips would make such phones much cheaper.

But he didn't want to make the phones. He wanted to remake the wireless base station, the guts of the world's cellular networks, by changing them from complex systems that incorporate hardware, software and the electronics needed for wireless communications into systems run primarily with software.

Sep 23, 2007, 07:21 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Software that fills a cell phone gap Source: News.com _________ Vanu Bose is the son of a fabled engineer, but he garnered no mercy when he presented his big idea at a technical conference in 1996. Bose's graduate work at MIT involved using software to handle the radio function in a cellular phone. He remembers that after he successfully demonstrated his technology, an audience member stood up and dismissed it with: "Congratulations! You've just invented the world's most expensive cell phone." Bose, a personable man, shrugged off the criticism. He expected that over time, the increasing processing speed of chips would make such phones much cheaper. But he didn't want to make the phones. He wanted to remake the wireless base station, the guts of the world's cellular networks, by changing them from complex systems that incorporate hardware, software and the electronics needed for wireless communications into systems run primarily with software.