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News
Issue #2002 - 05
(February 2002)
(Updated Feb.
6, 2002)
ACQUISITIONS,
MERGERS & AGREEMENTS
Ensemble Communications Secures
$25-Million
Wireless equipment supplier
Ensemble Communications has secured $25-million in additional equity
financing.
The funding round was led by Ampersand Ventures along with
existing investors, including Enterprise Partners, Crescendo
Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, and KTB
Ventures.
Commenting on Ampersand’s contribution, Dave Twyver, chairman
and CEO of Ensemble, said, "We are delighted to have attracted
a major new investor in Ampersand Ventures, a firm with a proven
track record in communications investments."
He added that the funding will enable Ensemble to continue
engineering and marketing its Fiberless broadband wireless access
products to wireless carriers worldwide.
Ensemble’s Fiberless system is based on its Adaptix technology
that uses time division duplexing, adaptive modulation, and adaptive
time division multiple access to deliver real-time asymmetry,
modulation and bandwidth on demand using 25 MHz channel flexibility
to achieve burst rates up to 120 Mpbs.
With Adaptix technology, carriers require a third fewer bases
stations to deploy and a third of the equipment in each base station
to provide the same or greater coverage and payload, the company
said.
For more information: http://www.ensemble.com/index3.asp
Mobileinfo Comments & Advisory: Achieving
transmission burst rate of 120 Mbps on broadband wireless is impressive.
This would certainly help in certain situations but it must compete with
fiber-based metro area networks that would hit the market in 12-18
months. Perhaps, it should compliment fiber-based metro area network
technology at the edge.
Note: This news release may contain
forward-looking statements. Readers should take appropriate caution in
developing plans utilizing these products, services and technology
architectures. All trademarks used in this summary are
the property of their respective owners.
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