Flarion Technologies has extended its Flash-OFDM technology for mobile broadband with a version, dubbed Flexband, that increases throughput to 1.25MHz in 5MHz multi carrier systems and that has already been field tested with a major mobile operator.

The company says the Flexband technology, which leverages the company's BeaconTone architecture, opens the possibility of delivering Gigabyte rates to mobile subscribers throughout the cell coverage area at $10 cost. The BeaconTone technology enables subscriber devices to continuously monitor in-band interference and instantaneously select the optimal carrier to deliver maximum bandwidth and performance.

Flarion says the combination of the two technologies significantly improves network efficiency and operator capacity for high-bandwidth services.


Delivery costs are put at $10 for 1GByte of data per subscriber per month. The company says a single 1.25MHz Flexband carrier sector will be able to deliver peak downlink data rates of 5.3Mbit/s, 1.8Mbit/s uplink, 2.5Mbit/s sustainable sector throughput and consistent data performance of up to 800kbit/s at the cell edge.

The company says "this performance enables operators to deliver a seamless mobile broadband experience across their entire network."

In a fully supported 5MHz Flexband multi-carrier system voice calls increase to 186 per sector and data rates increase to 15.9Mbit/s peak and 6Mbit/s sustainable, which Flarion says delivers the industry's highest data capacity, supporting over 600 subscribers consuming 1GByte of data per month.