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Senior RF Engineer Vacancy

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1300

Senior RF Engineer Role Details

MiMOMax Wireless Limited

Christchurch, New Zealand

Company Background

MiMOMax is a highly innovative wireless communications company, developing and selling products and services based on advanced wireless technologies into niche, world-wide markets. The company specialises in design, manufacture, implementation and support of radio equipment, based on advanced MiMO (Multiple Input and Multiple Output) technologies, to provide low latency, high reliability and ultra high spectrally efficient solutions.MiMOMax is aiming to be one of the world's leading customer-focused suppliers of these technologies, within business critical, non "push-to-talk" wireless market applications.

Senior RF Engineer - Scope of the Role

The Senior RF Engineer is a key role working closely with other engineers across many disciplines. The role will involve all aspects of RF circuit design from initial concept through system and circuit design to implementation and testing.

The products are digital MIMO transceivers operating from VHF through to low GHz frequencies which include:

High-Linearity Power Amplifiers
Feedback Linearization
Low Phase-Noise Synthesisers
ADC and DAC Conversion
Antenna and Duplexers

What we are looking for in the successful applicant:

Broad background and experience in TX and RX subsystem design i.e. mixer, IF and RF filter, LNA, PA, VCO etc.
Familiarity with modelling and simulation tools
Hands-on experience with network analyser, spectrum analyser, oscilloscope and other relevant RF test and measurement equipment
Experience in mentoring and leading RF engineers
Knowledge of duplexer and antenna design
Experience with analogue circuit design

Apply Online through www.taitradio.com/careers/jobs/new-zealand

Applications close on Monday 6^th Feb 2012

Senior Software Engineer Vacancy

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1300

Senior Software Engineer Role Details

MiMOMax Wireless Limited

Christchurch, New Zealand

Company Background

MiMOMax is a highly innovative wireless communications company, developing and selling products and services based on advanced wireless technologies into niche, world-wide markets. The company specialises in the design, manufacture, implementation and support of radio equipment, based on advanced MiMO (Multiple Input and Multiple Output) technologies, to provide low latency, high reliability and ultra high spectrally efficient solutions. MiMOMax is aiming to be one of the world's leading, customer-focused suppliers of these technologies, within business critical, non "push to talk" wireless market applications.

Senior Software Engineer - Scope of the Role

The Senior Software Engineer is a key role working closely with other engineers across many disciplines. The role will involve all aspects of software development lifecycle including design, implementation, integration, testing, maintenance and enhancement of radio-based software and application. The target is real-time embedded system and the development environment and toolset are Linux-based. The radios software products include:

Radio Control, Configuration and Monitoring Application
Web-based User Interface
Radio and Network Diagnostic Tools
Network and Routing Protocols
Encryption and Security
Header and Payload Compression
SNMP, DNP3, QoS etc

What we are looking for in the successful applicant:

Must have previous experience of the full software lifecycle
Embedded software design experience
Embedded Linux development experience
Experience with cross-compiling software for ARM Linux
Strong C or C++ skills
Web development experience (PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
Experience of User Interface implementation
Experience with networking and communication protocols
Comfortable working with a large, shared code base
Experience in mentoring and leading Software Engineers

Apply Online through www.taitradio.com/careers/jobs/new-zealand

Applications close on Monday 6^th Feb 2012

MiMOMax Digital Radios for 900 MHz RF Band

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +1300

MiMOMax to Release Highly Intelligent Digital Radios for 900MHz RF Band

Based on the needs of our customers’ requirements for additional frequency bands in some markets, MiMOMax has released sub 1Ghz “seriously smart” IP radios with the following key features:

ü 806-960 MHz

ü 12.5 kHz & 25 kHz narrow band channels in 6.25 and 5 kHz steps (50 kHz in future)

ü Dual 10/100 Base-T Ethernet switch that supports auto negotiation

ü Improved frequency reference with enhanced spectral performance supports greater signal sensitivity and better path performance

ü Low-cost & light-weight antennas offering a 14dBi nominal gain. The low-visual impact antennas come with fully enclosed radome making them ideal for harsh weather conditions

ü Internal Band Pass duplexer instead of notch-type duplexer further enhances the MiMOMax radio performance by assisting to mitigate on-site interference from other equipment

ü MiMOMax have also upgraded to a new Digital Processing System that will result in increased performance of the CPU, memory, microprocessors and clock

MiMOMax Orion Case Study in RadioResource Intl Q4 2011

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300

MiMOMax & Orion: A Success Story

“A New Zealand’s utility wireless network fared better than its copper and fibre-optic infrastructure following the country’s earthquake” reads the lead story in Q4 2011 issue of RadioResource International.

This case study clearly highlights the unique value proposition that highly intelligent UHF radios by MiMOMax continue to offer to all their SCADA customers especially in the power utility market segment.

Key Benefits of MiMOMax Solutions Include

Ultra Spectral Efficiency

Very Low Latency

Long Range Reliability

High Security with Comprehensive Suite of Enhanced Security Features

"Seriously Smart” Wireless Linking Solutions for Mission-Critical Applications

To Read The Full Case Study, Please Click Here>>

**Special thanks to the team at Orion NZ Ltd for providing this information.

MiMOMax Exhibits at European Utility Telecom Conference (EUTC) 2011

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +1300

Visit Us at Table 6, EUTC 2011

Madrid, Spain, October 26-28

MiMOMax Wireless Ltd is pleased to exhibit at EUTC this year.

EUTC is a unique industry event geared towards the gas, water and electricity utilities from Europe, Middle East, Africa and South America. Exploring the theme of “charting the evolutionary path”, the primary focus of the conference is to assist utilities to make intelligent strategic decisions that add value to their critical infrastructure networks. MiMOMax is looking forward to strengthen and expand its existing network through this event.

For more details about this event, click here>>

MiMOMax Wireless: A Key Speaker at RadioComms Connect 2011

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +1200

MiMOMax Presentation Topic

“When Mission Critical Really Means Mission Critical”

Paul Daigneault, CEO MiMOMax Wireless Ltd, has been confirmed as a key speaker at the RadioComms Connect 2011 being held in November, Melbourne, Australia. RadioComms Connect is a two-way radio communications event that is highly regarded within the Asia Pacific region. 500 delegates and visitors are expected to attend the two-day conference and exhibition to hear over 30 local and international experts take the attendees through a series of case studies, panel sessions and dealer-specific industry presentations.

The focus of MiMOMax presentation will be on augmenting awareness regarding the critical need for businesses to invest in ultra efficient technologies to optimize the use of the valuable spectrum. The presentation will be in the light of the lessons learned about what worked in the Christchurch earthquakes and what didn't work and what is required to protect the integrity of Critical Communications systems.

For registration and program details, click here.

MiMOMax Power On Demand Link (M-PoD)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +1300

M-PoD

Features of the M-PoD

The MiMOMax M-PoD feature is a unique power saving feature, which only turns on the remote end of a radio unit transmitter when there is "demand" for traffic (for example, when there is data ready to be transmitted between radio units (RU)). This feature is suited to remote substations that may be solar powered, have cascaded links, or where power consumption may be an issue.

The M-PoD feature was specifically designed for the spectrally efficient and ultra low latency MiMOMax Network Digital Link (NDL)*. The primary feature of the M-PoD is its ability to automatically and rapidly turn a RU transmitter on or off.

The M-PoD does this by promptly keying up (<100ms link establishment time) a RU transmitter from idle when there is data to send, to enable over the link data transmission.

The M-PoD feature responds to both digital (including IP, Synchronous and Asynchronous Serial) and analogue data, and will activate a RU transmitter if any of these forms of data is ready to be transmitted.

Once the data transmission is completed, the M-PoD ensures that the RU transmitter will stay active for a programmable time period between 1 and 255 seconds. During this time, the M-PoD confirms that all data is processed before automatically deactivating the RU transmitter. This prevents transmit de-activation between "overs", avoiding potential time (100ms link establishment) and power consumption, in the event of needing to transmit missed data. When a RU transmitter is not in use, it is on idle and the power consumption is reduced to less than 10 Watts (typically 8 Watts depending on options).

The M-PoD accommodates an alternative configuration option for networks which have cascaded low power links. This configuration ensures that when a link is keyed up, its proceeding link is simultaneously alerted. Therefore, by the time the data reaches the proceeding link, there is only an additional 20ms establishment time before that second link is ready to transmit data.

This configuration option reduces establishment time for cascaded RU transmitters by 80ms. It applies to all subsequent RU transmitters within a cascaded link, ensuring that each only incur an additional 20ms delay in activating from an idle state.

Benefits of the M-PoD

The key benefits of the MiMOMax "Power on Demand" Link include:

Significantly low power consumption as a result of activating the RU transmitter only when there is data to be transmitted.
Significantly fast data transmission over cascaded links. A significant reduction of 80 ms in establishment time per cascaded RU transmitter.
Highly reliable and quality data transmission. The M-PoD ensures that all transmittable data is transferred during a given activation period, preventing data loss and delay.
Economic gain. Significant costs are saved as a result of reduced power consumption.

*For more information on the NDL, please click here.

MiMOMax Team Members Enjoy Christchurch Polar Blast

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +1200

Earthquakes, Snow Storms, What Next?

Who knew that a mere snow shower starting Sunday night on July 24, 2011 would transform Christchurch into a winter wonderland by the next morning? Unable to get into work, most of the MiMOMax team enjoyed the novelty of the big snow fall with friends and family, creating snowmen and clearing snow-covered cars. However, some of the bravest of our team members ignored the snow storm and made it into MiMOMax offices for the photo opportunity on the roof top.

From Left: Iain, Cane, Doug, Martin

So far, 2011 has been quite a year for the people of Christchurch. We wish our customers and business partners a successful year ahead and look forward to spring around the corner.

Best Wishes

MiMOMax Team

IN BRIEF: Customer Application

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +1200

MiMOMax & Chorus NZ:

MiMOMax radios deployed in a highly critical communications network

For the past two years MiMOMax has collaborated with New Zealand telecommunications network operator, Chorus, to upgrade a highly critical communications network for a major regional customer. Prior to upgrading the customer had for 25 years utilised a low capacity and analogue data infrastructure system. Due to growing network demands, they required an enhanced, more sophisticated and packet based Ethernet IP network, which supported higher capacities, faster data access times and improved event management.

As a constituent of the turnkey solution supplied to the customer by Chorus, MiMOMax radios now form an integral component of the new network. In total, eleven point-to-point MiMOMax UHF narrowband and native IP links have been deployed to support both VoIP and SCADA applications. Several of the MiMOMax radio links were installed over near line-of-sight paths and, as they operate in UHF licensed frequencies, they have since performed to a very high standard. Chorus has reported that they are happy with the performance of all eleven of the MiMOMax radio links.

"The MiMOMax radio links have successfully contributed to optimising the performance of our customer's highly critical communications network. They have provided high capacity, reliable and very low latency data transmission, while consuming very little spectrum."

Brent Jones, Radio Principle Delivery Specialist, Chorus NZ

MiMOMax Exhibits at UTC 2011

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +1200

Utilities Telecom Council (UTC) 2011 Expo

MiMOMax is exhibiting at the UTC Expo 2011 in Long Beach, California from the 10^th-12^th this May. We warmly welcome you to our stand #729, to meet the team, but most importantly, discover how we may be able to assist you to optimize the performance of your network.

Did you know that MiMOMax provides ultra spectrally efficient and very low latency critical communications solutions for a range of utility applications?

~ Come along to view our products to discover....
- why MiMOMax technology is so unique
- how MiMOMax solutions achieve world beating spectral efficiencies

~ Come along to learn how MiMOMax solutions can...
- be customized to meet your specific requirements
- optimize your utility network performance
- cut your costs
- reduce your spectrum usage

~ Come along and expose yourself to...
- innovative
- highly robust
- exciting
solutions from MiMOMax.

Visit MiMOMax at the UTC Expo in Long Beach, California this May at

STAND #729

For more information on the UTC 2011 Expo CLICK HERE

Contact us now for a FREE ADMISSION PASS to the UTC 2011 Expo

TOP NEWS MiMOMax & Christchurch earthquake

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +1300

TOP NEWS

Mission Critical Communications & Radio Resources Media Group Report....

MiMOMax Supports New Zealand Earthquake Recovery Efforts

"Radio Worked (when other systems failed)", says the Managing Director of MiMOMax Wireless, Paul Daigneault.

During the lunch hour on the 22^nd of February 2011, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand's second largest city, Christchurch, killing hundreds and causing catastrophic infrastructural damage to the entire region....

MiMOMax Presents AND Exhibits at IWCE 2011

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +1300

MiMOMax Presenting & Exhibiting at IWCE 2011 in Las Vegas

MiMOMax Wireless Ltd will be exhibiting and presenting at the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) 2011 held in Las Vegas, Nevada this March 9^th-11^th.

The IWCE is a prevalent and fruitful event that attracts attendees from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and surrounding regions. Many attend from critical infrastructure market sectors, such as Gas, Water & Power Utilities, Public Safety, Transportation, and Governmental bodies, including (but not limited to):

- Vendors
- Dealers
- Distributors
- Systems Integrators
- Technical & Corporate Professionals
- Government Officials

MiMOMax will be exhibiting at stand # 6136. The MiMOMax team will be demonstrating the outstanding performance of MiMOMax's ultra spectrally efficient and very low latency mission critical solutions. The team will educate attendees how MiMOMax solutions can save users considerable costs, significantly reduce spectrum consumption, and provide highly robust, reliable, and scalable options for their communications networks. Focus will be placed on MiMOMax's three core solutions;

IWCE attendees, who are seeking to considerably enhance performance and reduce the cost of their communications networks, are strongly encouraged to come down to the expo floor to visit MiMOMax's stand # 6136. They will discover exactly why MiMOMax technology is so unique how it is able to achieve world beating spectral efficiencies. Most importantly, attendees will learn how MiMOMax solutions can be

1) Customised to accommodate individual network requirements
2) Cut network costs
3) Reduce spectrum usage
4) Achieve optimal network performance.

Because MiMOMax utilises world beating and innovative technology, Managing Director of MiMOMax, Paul Daigneault, has been selected as one of four panelist speakers for the IWCE 2011 "Converging Power Utility Networks and Applications" session, to discuss the intricacies of MiMO technology. Daigneault's presentation will focus on "Ultra Spectrally Efficient and Very Low Latency MiMO Solutions", and aim to educate attendees about the fundamentals and unique benefits of MiMO Technology.

Those who are interested in learning and understanding how innovative and emerging technologies can optimize network performance are strongly encouraged to attend Daigneault's presentation.

MiMOMax will be exhibiting at stand # 6163

For more information on the IWCE 2011 CLICK HERE

BREAKING NEWS Canterbury Earthquake

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +1300

Christchurch Earthquake February 2011

In light of the 6.3 Canterbury Earthquake that occurred on the 22^nd of February, I am delighted and very relieved to report that the MiMOMax team, their family and friends, are all safe and well.

We are aware that not everybody within the Canterbury region has been as fortunate. Our thoughts and hearts are with those more severely affected during this difficult time.

While our premises have suffered some superficial damage, we expect to be fully operational and business to continue as usual within the next one to two days (25^th of February).

To our customers and business partners, I am very happy to reassure you that none of our stock has been damaged, and we expect scheduled deliveries will continue as planned. I would like to sincerely thank those of you who have contacted us offering your support and assistance.

In the mean while, we are available to provide customer support and answer any queries as they arise. Please do not hesitate to contact us should you require assistance.

Once again, from all the team at MiMOMax, we thank you for your concern, and assure you the best of our support should you require it,

Many Thanks & Regards,

Paul Daigneault, Managing Director

MiMOMax Wireless Ltd

MiMOMax Solutions at APCO Australia 2011

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +1300

MiMOMax solutions displayed by business partners Tait Radio Communications & RF Technology at APCO Australia 2011

MiMOMax solutions will be displayed by business partners, Tait Radio Communications and RF Technology, from February the 23^rd -25^th, at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials Australia (APCOA) 2011 Conference & Exhibition, hosted in Melbourne, Australia.

APCOA is a prestigious and popular event that attracts emergency services, public safety and governmental bodies. Many attend from around the Asia Pacific region, including; vendors, systems integrators, commercial and technical professionals, government officials and end users.

The MiMOMax Team are collaborating with business partners, Tait Radio Communications and RF Technology, to demonstrate the outstanding performance of MiMOMax's ultra spectrally efficient and very low latency mission critical PMR linking solutions. MiMOMax solutions are able to save users considerable costs, significantly reduce spectrum consumption, and provide a highly robust, reliable, and scalable option for their PMR networks.

APCOA attendees, who are seeking to enhance performance and reduce the cost of their PMR networks, are strongly encouraged to visit both the Tait Radio Communications and RF Technology stands. They will discover exactly why MiMOMax technology is so unique and how it is able to achieve world beating spectral efficiencies. Most importantly, attendees will learn how MiMOMax solutions can be customised to accommodate their individual PMR linking requirements and achieve optimal network performance.

MiMOMax on display at Tait Radio Communication s' stands # 62-65

MiMOMax on display at RF Technology Pty's stands #33-34

OPV Series ll

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:05:24 +1200

The MiMOMax Optimised Protection Variant (OPV) is a software flexible, ultra low latency, digital radio link designed for mission critical data linking and back haul type applications.

The OPV is designed to support a pair of power line protection relays (eg. Geneal Electric L90). The relays typically use the radio link to exchange data packets at 64 kb/s, containing power system voltage the current magnitude and phase angle information. The information is used to determine whether there is an unexpected event or power loss on the line, and to tramsit information used to trip circuit breajers when a line fault is detected. Up to three OPV protection circuit links may be cascaded in order to handle longer ranges and diffcult terrain.

The interface required for the proetction relays is typically synchronous serial using V.11 (RS422) X.21 or G.703, at a 64kb/s transmission rate. However, a number of other synchronous serial interfaces can be accommodated.

FCC Narrowband Compliances United States 2013

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +1300

FCC Narrowband Compliances

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ruled that all radio communications equipment in the United States, operating in the VHF (150-174 MHz) and UHF (421-512 MHz) frequency bands, must conform to new narrowband requirements from the 1^st of January 2013 or cease operations.

To meet these requirements, radio communications equipment in operation on, or after, this date must provide at a minimum:

One voice channel per 12.5kHz channel bandwidth

Data applications must transmit at least 4800bp/s of data per 6.25kHz channel bandwidth

Alternative technologies must achieve an equivalent spectral efficiency

Image: Narrowband channels enables more channels within the same spectrum

These regulations will affect all United States' governmental, commercial, public safety, transport and utilities organisations deploying UHF and VHF radio communications equipment. MiMOMax Wireless Ltd assures existing and prospective users in the United States that the complete MiMOMax narrowband UHF (420 MHz-470 MHz) product family complies with these requirements.

The MiMOMax narrowband UHF product family spectral efficiencies are as follows:

25kHz Channel Bandwidth

- Up to 320kb/s raw data rate per 25kHz channel bandwidth
(80kb/s raw data rate equivalent per 6.25kHz channel bandwidth)

- Up to six 32kADPCM voice channels plus 36kb/s Ethernet per 25kHz channel bandwidth

12.5kHz Channel Bandwidth

- Up to 160kbp/s raw data rate per 12.5kHz channel bandwidth
(80kbp/s raw data rate equivalent per 6.25kHz channel bandwidth)

- Up to three 32kADPCM voice channels plus 2kb/s Ethernet per 25kHz channel bandwidth

MORE INFORMATION ON THE FCC & 2013 NARROWBAND REQUIREMENTS CAN BE FOUND BELOW:

http://www.fcc.gov/pshs/public-safety-spectrum/narrowbanding.html

MORE INFORMATION ON THE SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY OF THE MiMOMAX NARROWBAND UHF FAMILY CAN BE FOUND BELOW:

MiMOMax Network Digital Link (NDL)

MiMOMax Multi-point Digital Link (MDL)

MiMOMax Optimised Protection Variant (OPV)

PRESS RELEASE: MiMOMax's "Radios Worked"

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +1300

MiMOMax's "Radios Worked"...

.....during catastrophic Christchurch Earthquake

“Radio Worked (when other systems failed)”, says the Managing Director of MiMOMax Wireless, Paul Daigneault, at the RadioComms Connect 2010 Annual Conference. Daigneault presented an interesting case study that focused on the performance of MiMOMax's radios during the Earthquake which has created so much devastation in Christchurch City and the surrounding areas in New Zealand this year.

"This event has only furthered our confidence and belief in our innovative, world beating solutions. We are now, more than ever, enthused about the future and highly confident about extending our market reach worldwide, to equip users with high performing, "best fit" solutions", says Daigneault.

CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT MiMOMax RADIOS AND THE EARTHQUAKE IN DETAIL

MiMOMax Continues to Grow

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +1300

MiMOMax Acquires New Business Development Manager

MiMOMax Wireless continues to grow. The MiMOMax Team are delighted to welcome aboard their new Business Development Manager, Tony Chapman. As MiMOMax enters into new international markets and obtains additional business, the company will require increased support to ensure growth is effectively managed, maintained, and developed worldwide.

As a Business Development Manager, Tony will foster new and further existing networks amongst a wide range of business associates. Tony will assist MiMOMax to realise and secure sales opportunities in both penetrated and untapped markets internationally, including North & South America, UK & Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific.

"I am looking forward to working with the MiMOMax team to deliver their innovative wireless solutions to customers around the world."

Tony brings 17 years experience of hi-tech semiconductor Sales and Sales Management to MiMOMax. Previously Tony has held Sales Management and General Management positions at Braemac and Memec both locally and internationally. Tony's extensive experience coupled with his enthusiasm will help equip MiMOMax with the best resources to succeed in both unpredictable and volatile global markets. The MiMOMax Team are happy to have Tony involved and are highly optimistic about the future.

MiMOMax MDL IET Award Finalist

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +1300

MiMOMax MDL Announced as a finalist for the 2010 IET Telecommunications Innovation Award

The MiMOMax Team are delighted to announce that the MiMOMax Point-to-Multipoint Digital Link (MDL) has been selected as a finalist technology in the telecommunications category for the 2010 Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) Innovation Award.

The MiMOMax MDL is particularly unique as it is able to offer up to 1000 times faster access and 100 times the throughput of traditional legacy 1200bd scanning telemetry systems, bringing "real time" to remote SCADA and Telemetry applications.

The IET is a very prestigious international engineering and technology society that aims to foster collaboration of knowledge and promote innovation within the high-tech industry worldwide. The IET grants awards annually to innovative technologies that are both highly novel and offer significant value within their field.

The MiMOMax team are very pleased the MiMOMax MDL has achieved finalist status and are interested to see the competition unfold. The 2010 IET award winner will be announced on the 24^th of November 2010.

For more information on the MiMOMax MDL CLICK HERE

For more information on the IET CLICK HERE

MiMOMax A Key Speaker at RadioComms Connect 2010

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +1300

MiMOMax Wireless a Key Speaker at RadioComms Connect 2010 presenting on

"Ultra Spectral Efficiency & Emerging Technologies"

MiMOMax Wireless Ltd's CEO Paul Daigneault has been announced as a key speaker at RadioComms Connect 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. RadioComms Connect is a Two-Way Radio Communication event that is highly regarded within the Asia Pacific region. The event is geared towards Governmental, Public Safety and Transport market sectors, attracting many telecommunications end users, regulatory bodies, systems integrators, dealers and vendors from around the region.

The MiMOMax presentation will aim enhance awareness and understanding of ultra efficient spectrum management, and examine the advantages of using emergent, highly innovative technologies.

"Spectrum is the most valuable resource available to the radio engineer. It is finite and money cannot create any more. By using modern technology, it is possible to maintain the advantages well recognized by radio engineers in the golden spectrum, and still provide highly reliable, ultra high spectrally efficient solutions, to evolving applications which require more bandwidth."

- Paul Daigneault, CEO, MiMOMax Wireless Ltd

New MiMOMax Indoor / Outdoor Configuration

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:23:56 +1200

New MiMOMax Indoor / Outdoor Solution

MiMOMax has introduced a new Indoor/Outdoor solution, comprising of a stand alone Radio Modem with various mounting options. The Radio Modem is water proof to IP67 and may be rack, wall, pole or in some cases antenna mounted.

The Radio Modem configuration has some provision for interfacing (Ethernet) but more complex interfaces will require connection to a rack mounted interface controller. Provision for connection to an additional space diversity radio modem is also provided. Connections to the interface controller and the additional diversity receiver are by low cost Cat 5 cable.

The advantages of this are clear;

•    Eliminate any cable losses associated with long co-ax runs.
•    Eliminate costly RF low loss cables and connectors.
•    Enable considerable spatial diversity where required.
•    Enable most flexible configurations for each application.

Indoor /Outdoor configurations will be available in the last qtr of 2008.

MiMOMax Exhibits at EUTC 2010

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +1300

MiMOMax Wireless Ltd Exhibits & Presents at the EUTC 2010 in London

MiMOMax Wireless Ltd will be exhibiting and presenting at the European Utilities Telecom Conference (EUTC) 2010, held in London this October 26^th-29^th. The EUTC is a prevalent and highly prestigious event, directed towards technical and corporate professionals from critical infrastructure market sectors, such as Gas, Water and Electricity utilities. The event attracts worldwide attendees, including those from the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa and South America.

Utilities' critical infrastructure is a key market for MiMOMax, and the team is looking forward to using the EUTC as a platform to increase market presence and extend awareness and understanding of MiMOMax's utilities based SCADA and tele-protection solutions.

More importantly, the team is eager to network and engage with current and potential utilities customers. Efforts will be directed towards building enduring relationships and gaining further insights into the evolving needs of customers. The team anticipates the EUTC will be a valuable learning event that will provide first hand knowledge on emerging utilities technologies and market progression.

For more information on the EUTC 2010 CLICK HERE

MiMOMax Opens Sydney Office

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1200

MiMOMax Opens Office in Sydney Australia

The MiMOMax Team are happy to announce, that as of early September 2010, MiMOMax has opened an Australian office based in Sydney. The MiMOMax Australian office is expected to increase market presence within the Australian Public Safety, Transport, and Utilities markets.

The MiMOMax Team recognise the importance of developing local networks and providing on ground sales and support. The MiMOMax Australian office is part of an expansion process aiming to reinforce and accentuate relationships with communications consultants, service providers, distributors, and operators across the Australian continent. Recently appointed Sales Engineer, Brendon Humphries, who has significant experience in the Asian Pacific tele-communications industry, is now operating from this office. This will enable him to directly interface with Australian customers in their own time zones and provide them with the level of support they require.

The MiMOMax Team use a "relationship intimacy" marketing approach, whereby a thorough understanding of customers' needs and their application requirements is gained before proposing MiMOMax solutions. This approach ensures that carefully selected opportunities have a tight product-application "fit", and extend the lifetime value a customer receives from their uniquely configured MiMOMax system.

To date, the MiMOMax Team have successfully followed this approach and developed enduring customer relationships that extend well beyond initial business transactions. However, due to continuing business growth, customer relationships are becoming increasingly challenging to manage and there is now considerable need for the MiMOMax Australian office.

The MiMOMax Australian office is also expected to enable more closely aligned business development and customer support in Australian regions, due to the local business, economic, and cultural knowledge gained from direct operations in the regional markets.

For more information Brendon Humphries CLICK HERE

Breaking News EARTHQUAKE CANTERBURY

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1200

Earthquake Canterbury & MiMOMax Wireless Limited

Dear All,

I would like to thank everyone who contacted us with concerns and offers of assistance. All MiMOMax employees are fine. Although our premises has suffered some minor damages, we expect to be fully operational by Tuesday 7^th September, following a brief clean up and ensuring that our premises are structurally sound and safe.

Canterbury is not a traditionally earthquake prone zone, but the current situation has shown the benefits of having a disaster relief plan. The teams involved in ensuring business continuity have performed exceptionally well, preventing major disruptions to routine operations.

To our customers we assure that there has been no damage to stock or our capability. We expect very little if any delay to shipments which, will continue as planned later this week.

In the mean time we are still available to provide customer support and answer any queries as they arise.

Again from all the team at MiMOMax, we thank you for your concern, and assure you the best of our support should you require it,

Kindest regards,

Paul Daigneault - CEO & Managing Director

MiMOMax Wireless Limited

MiMOMax's Team Grows

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1200

The MiMOMax Team Continues to Grow

The MiMOMax Team continues to experience growth within the commercial area of its business, with the addition of a sales person who will be based in the New South Wales region of Australia. Having had over 15 years experience in the Asia Pacific tele-communications industry, Brendon Humphries specialises in RF network planning, and was a commercial customer support and sales engineer for Exicom Ltd Australia, prior to joining the MiMOMax Team.

The sales engineer role will be dedicated to producing further business development and securing sales opportunities within Australasian Mission Critical markets. Brendon believes there are many opportunities in MiMOMax's prime target markets, which include; power protection and monitoring systems for utilities industries, PMR linking, rural broadband delivery, and integrated service delivery, for example, simultaneous analogue voice, serial and IP data.

Brendon's role will involve close collaboration with Australasian dealers, systems integrators, and end users. The MiMOMax Team expects the role will significantly increase market awareness of the MiMOMax brand. More importantly, it will facilitate and optimise understanding of MiMOMax solutions and distinct features. When asked what he believes to be MiMOMax's core advantages in the Australasian market, Brendon reports;

"MiMOMax has the ability to simplify wireless service delivery whilst enabling a greater degree and ease of control over these services (voice / data / IP).

MiMOMax facilitates the migration of legacy wireless communications networks over to an IP based platform thus hastening the transition of information into modern, computer based networks. Higher security, faster speeds and less hardware required to achieve a unified wireless solution.

MiMOMax provides the user with higher traffic densities per Hz of spectrum than ever previously seen anywhere in current radio based systems....Unprecedented control over access, reporting and quality of service."

Brendon has indicated he intends to leverage these distinctive features to increase awareness and customise MiMOMax's high end solutions to meet RF service providers' required specifications, and secure mutually advantageous sales for MiMOMax and dealers, systems integrators, and end-users.

The MiMOMax Team are aware that entering into the Australasian market will be accompanied by challenges. Although existing Australasian based partnerships will support further market entry, MiMOMax requires a sales engineer to consistently and actively reinforce MiMOMax solutions' performance and provide an accessible point of contact whenever necessary. The Team and Brendon believe such targets are within their reach and well on their way to achieving them. Brendon reports;

"I am excited at the opportunity offered to me as I believe the product revolutionises wireless design and delivery.....

(and) the prospect of working in a fresh team environment of highly focused and enthusiastic people."

MiMOMax Wins 2010 UTC Product Award

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1200

MiMOMax Wins 2010 UTC Product Award for "Best Wireless Equipment"

The MiMOMax Team are thrilled to announce that they won the UTC Expo 2010 Product Award for the "Best Wireless Equipment". This was awarded for the MiMOMax Multi-Point Digital Link (MDL), which came out on top of all other products entered by the UTC Expo 2010 exhibitors within the Wireless Equipment category.

The MiMOMax Team are particularly happy to receive such a prestigious award for the MiMOMax MDL given it was the first year they have exhibited at the UTC Expo. Furthermore, the Team were informed that the UTC twenty ten entrant pool was particularly larger than previous years and competition was fierce.

Since winning the UTC award, the MiMOMax Team have received a highly positive response from a range of customers, partners and UTC members. They are hoping that this achievement will further support awareness and understanding of MiMOMax's ultra spectrally efficient very low latency products within the North American Utilities Markets.

About the MiMOMax MDL:

The MiMOMax Multipoint Digital Link uses an innovative random access scheme matched with ultra high spectrally efficient very low latency full duplex narrowband MiMO radios to provide up to 100 times the throughput and up to 1000 times faster access times in narrowband licensed UHF frequencies.

About MiMOMax Wireless Ltd:

MiMOMax Wireless utilises MiMO and Space Time Coding technologies to provide high reliability, ultra high spectral efficiency, very low latency linking solutions in narrowband licensed channels to ensure reliable, and interference free operation for mission critical applications.

For more information on the MiMOMax MDL, please CLICK HERE

For more information on MiMOMax Wireless, please CLICK HERE

For more information on UTC, please CLICK HERE

MiMOMax Exhibits at UTC 2010

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +1200

MiMOMax & UTC Expo 2010

See MiMOMax at Booth #128

MiMOMax Wireless Ltd. will be exhibiting at the UTC Expo 2010 this coming May in Indianapolis. The UTC plays a significant role within the North American utilities markets and the MiMOMax Team is looking forward to using the Expo as an opportunity to increase market presence. The Team is aiming to extend awareness and understanding of MiMOMax SCADA and tele-protection solutions. Focus will be placed on communicating the unique features, capabilities and benefits of the ultra spectrally efficient and low latency MiMOMax products.

More importantly, the MiMOMax Team are eager to use the UTC Expo as a networking platform to engage current and potential utilities customers. Efforts will be directed towards building enduring relationships and gaining further insights into the evolving needs of customers. The Team believe the UTC Expo 2010 must not be missed. They anticipate it to be a valuable learning event that will provide first hand knowledge on emerging utilities technologies and market developments.

For more information on the UTC Expo 2010 CLICK HERE

For more information on the UTC (Utilities Telecom Council) CLICK HERE

NEW Product Features!

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +1300

NEW NOTEWORTHY PRODUCT SOFTWARE FEATURES...

- MiMOMax Data Acceleration Protocols (M-DAP )

MiMOMax Data Acceleration Protocols (M-DAP) is designed to enhance VoIP and other real-time applications dramatically. MDAP achieves a massive increase in capacity and quality by the following mechanisms:

Header compression of Ethernet / IP (Internet Protocol) / UDP (User datagram Protocol) / RTP (Real Time Protocol)
Quality of Service
Payload compression (future)

- MiMOMax Routing Adaptation Protocols (M-RAP)

M-RAP is an optional suite of protocols that provide dynamic re-routing.

In the event of path failure where multiple paths are available, M-RAP would be able to learn the topology of the network and therefore reroute paths as the topology changes (links lost or added).
OSPF routing protocol is used to determine which path to take, to achieve this re-routing in a MiMOMax system. When a radio is "hard coded", as "the default gateway" into an area, then the area loses communications, even when the other radios could potentially act as default gateways.
In the event of a communication failure VRRP is used in the MiMOMax radios to dynamically assign a virtual IP address so that the selected radio becomes the default gateway.
QSPF routers only communicate their state with the other routers in that "area". GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) protocol may be used to pipe this monitoring information from the "areas" to a monitoring system in the core of the customer's network. Read More...

- MiMOMax "Power On Demand" Link (M-PoD)

MiMOMax Wireless has developed, and is soon to be releasing, a "Power On Demand" Link (M-PoD), which is able to automatically activate when data needs to be transmitted, and de-activate once the data has finished everything.
The core benefit of this feature is the substantial savings in power consumption, as the link stays in idle when it is not in use, only consuming 10 watts of power (more information to be published on the M-PoD shortly)

MiMOMax "Power On Demand" Link (M-PoD)

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +1300

MiMOMax Wireless has developed, and is soon to be releasing, a "Power On Demand" Link (M-PoD), which is able to automatically activate when data needs to be transmitted, and de-activate once the data has finished everything.

The core benefit of this feature is the substantial savings in power consumption, as the link stays in idle when it is not in use, only consuming 10 watts of power.

To read more on the M-PoD, click here...

Team Simoco Approves MiMOMax Solutions

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1300

Team Simoco Radio Communications & MiMOMax Wireless Ltd

As of December 2009, Simoco has formally approved the MiMOMax low latency and highly spectrally efficient linking product family, to provide PMR site linking for both recently released Simoco Xfin MPT 1327 products and TETRA systems.

Simoco's Chief Technical Officer, Andy Grimmett, has indicated that they were pleasantly surprised by the speed and ease of setting up, configuring and installing MiMOMax equipment, in comparison to previously used linking equipment.

"It just worked and did what they said it would do right out of the box without any problems"

- Andy Grimmett, CTO Team Simoco Limited

Additionally, Simoco are currently releasing an analogue base station range with Ethernet interface with which, they are also interested in using MiMOMax linking equipment. Simoco are also looking to explore MiMOMax's advanced software features, such as MiMOMax Data Acceleration Protocols*, to provide an enhanced and sophisticated overall solution.

Needless to say, the MiMOMax Team are extremely pleased with Simoco's approval, positive feedback, and the potential future business opportunities this approval is expected to yield. The MiMOMax Team looks forward to working with Simoco to provide customers with innovative and effective radio solutions.

*To learn more about MiMOMax Data Acceleration Protocols (M-DAP) and QoS solutions, click here.

About Simoco:

Simoco is an international Radio Communications company, who provide a broad range of radio communications products and services, including Portable Mobile Radios (PMR), Mobile Radios, Base Stations, Digital Applications and Systems Integration Simoco's solutions are designed to appeal to a variety of sectors, including utilities, transport, and government markets. The overriding objectives of Simoco are to ensure that they deliver services and products that meet their customers' requirements and exceed their customers' expectations.

About MiMOMax Wireless:

MiMOMax NDL Endorsed for Tait's Trunked P25 Network

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +1200

Tait Radio Communications Endorses the MiMOMax Network Digital Link (NDL) for its Trunked P25 Network

Tait Radio Communications (Tait) has recommended the MiMOMax Wireless Ltd Network Digital Link (NDL) as their preferred linking solution for P25 inter-site communications. The combination of the very high reliability, high capacity and spectral efficiency, in conjunction with low delay and jitter, makes the MiMOMax NDL ideally suited to interconnecting Tait P25 sites. Not only does it provide superior performance in terms of on time delivery of the voice packets, even in the presence of large amounts of non-voice IP traffic, but it may achieve this in up to 10 to 20 times less RF spectrum than competing solutions.

After evaluating link performance within the field trial, the Tait Development Team indicated that they are satisfied the NDL meets the system inter-site communications requirements and is able to successfully link the Taitnet trunked P25 network. Given this positive outcome, Tait is pleased to formally endorse the use of the NDL as a highly spectrally efficient and ultra low latency fixed linking solution for the Taitnet trunked P25 network.

The P25 field trial analysed the traffic capability, reliability, latency and jitter performance of the NDL, under a variety of different tests including heavy loading. As a result, Tait confirmed that the MiMOMax NDL is capable of supporting up to five P25 traffic channels plus a control channel in one 25kHz linking channel, using 16QAM MiMO or alternatively a 12.5kHz linking channel, using 256QAM MiMO. Moreover, it should be noted that if required the NDL is capable of supporting up to ten P25 traffic channels (in a single 25kHz 256QAM MiMO channel).

Tait stated that they were particularly impressed with the very low latency and low jitter, typically adding as little at 5ms to the overall system delay, with no voice packet loss. Additionally, the MiMOMax Data Acceleration Protocols (M-DAP) flawlessly processed traffic, via successful recognition of the P25 service requirements.

Tait has previously endorsed the MiMOMax NDL for Taitnet P25 conventional and simulcast systems. Therefore, the MiMOMax NDL is now endorsed by Tait as a complete simulcast, conventional and trunked, P25 network inter-site linking solution.

MiMOMax's product family gains mutilple Compliance Certifications

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1300

MiMOMax Wireless' product family has been recently ceritifed by:

Federation of Communications Commission (FCC)

MiMOMax Wireless announce that their Link Radio Units have been certified by the Federation of Communications Commission (FCC), for Parts 15 & 90 of the Code of Federal Relations (CFR) 47.

The FCC certification covers both 25kHz and 12.5kHz channel spacing, and the report results for both channels were outstanding. An independent test house was commisioned, and returned a test report showing very good performance in both 25kHz and 12.5kHz channels, with almost total absence of spurious emissions.

Needless to say, the MiMOMax team are extremely pleased with these results, especially as obtaining an FCC endorsement allows them to offer their products to wider range of international markets. Although MiMOMax did not foresee any issues arising, by commissioning an independent product evaluation it is expected to increase customer trust and reinforce the integrity of their product families

Chief Technical Officer, Doug McConnell reports:

"The almost total absence of spurious emissions is not a surprise to the design team. We were designing a technically sophisticated product for mission critical applications and so we had little choice but to design in performance, ruggedness and reliability throughout the product. The EMC shielding, thermal design and mechanical robustness is evident as soon as you look inside the product. Of course it is rewarding to have an independent assessment confirm that you have met your design goals."

2. Industry Canada (IC)

MiMOMax Wireless' product family has also been certified by Industry Canada (IC), as a result of the successful submission of a product test report. Testing was again, undertaken by an in dependent test house.

In the case of the IC compliance, the MiMOMax team were particularly pleased with the prompt, trouble free completion of the test report and certification issuing.

3. Spectrum Impact Assesment (SIA) within Australia

Lastly, but not least, MiMOMax Wireless' Network Digital Link (NDL) met the Australian Communications and Media Authority, Spectrum Impact Assessment AS/NZS 4295-2004 standard, for 450-470MHz frequencies.

Therefore, the MiMOMax Wireless NDL is now certified for the AS/NZS 4295-2004, which is specifially applicable to the Australian Communications market.

Product Update: Multi-Point Digital LInk (MDL)

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1200

Multi-Point Digital Link (MDL)

MiMOMax Wireless Limited has now released its new wireless Multi-Point Digital Linking (MDL) product, which allows point-to-multipoint communication, from the Base Radio Unit (BRU), to multiple Remote Radio Units (RRU).

The MDL uses a proprietary access scheme, where up to 1024 RRU's can be efficiently supported by one BRU. The MDL, like all MiMOMax products, is very spectrally efficient, has ultra low latency and low jitter, to ensure efficient and effective data transmission.

Flexibility is also a core attribute of the MDL, as it is able host various interfaces, and can be combined with the Network Digital Link (NDL), to accommodate for harsh terrain and long distance paths.

Versatility is a key component of the MDL and it can be rack, pole or wall mounted to suit all environments. Applications include protection equipment, SCADA RTU's, and security equipment. Please view the following link from the MiMOMax website, for comprehensive technical details on the MDL. http://www.mimomax.com/assets/PDF-Files/Microsoft-Word-MDLSeries-II.pdf

MiMOMax Wireless Limited Wins 2009 FCS Business Radio Innovation Award

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:56:06 +1200

MiMOMax Wireless Limited Wins 2009 FCS Business Radio Innovation Award

MiMOMax Wireless Limited is proud to announce, that in the face of international competition, they have won 1^st place in the 2009 FCS (Federation of Communication Services) Radio Business Innovation Award.

The prestigious award was intended for a company that was able to offer a product, which excelled in four key areas; Innovativeness, Originality, Commercial Application and Spectral Benefits.

MiMOMax entered their Optimised Protection Variant (OPV), which is specifically applicable to the UK Power Utility Protection Market.

Utilizing one 25 kHz licensed channel for reliability, MiMOMax provides a complete substation communications system for Protection, Monitoring and Voice. Because of the high spectral efficiency and very low latency of the MiMOMax OPV product, one single MiMOMax OPV link provides both synchronous protection for Cat I, II, and III protection schemes on one port, while simultaneously making at least 64kb/s available for monitoring and voice applications.

With the current latency uncertainty surrounding Century 21 upgrading of the wired network to Packet services, MiMOMax can provide a radio based protection relay solution offering a latency of only 5.05ms and costing a fraction of laying a fibre equivalent.

Effectively one MiMOMax radio link provides to the substation the services that would normally require a Protection, a SCADA, and a Voice radio. This preserves radio spectrum and provides a reliable solution to a mission critical application

The FCS is a UK Trade Association, providing support for businesses, who deliver communication products and services to radio, wireless and mobile markets, to name a few examples. The FCS also aims to regulate, and secure a healthy, competitive market for the communications industry. As indicated on their website (http://www.fcs.org.uk/), FCS describe; "A strong trade association is the stable force at the heart of a competitive and liberalised industry."

Additionally, the FCS fosters competition and encourages product excellence, through alternative means, such as, presenting yearly awards under multiple categories, with the Business Radio Innovation Award being no exception.

The (Gerald David OBE) FCS Business Radio Innovation Award has now been running for the previous six, consecutive years, and is sponsored by Team Simoco, who themselves, won the award in 2007.

2009 is the first year MiMOMax have entered an innovation award from the FCS, thus, to win it in the first year against such prestigious competition is a great honour for MiMOMax.

Previous formal recognition includes Doug McConnell, MiMOMax's Chief Technical Officer, being announced a finalist in the category of "Innovator of the Year" at the 2008 TUANZ Innovation Awards. Click here to read more. Additionally, prior to MiMOMax becoming a separate legal entity, an IEE, (Institution of Electrical Engineers, now the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET)) 2005 Product Design award was presented to Tait Radio Communications, in recognition for a product now known as MiMOMax's.

Paul Daigneault, Managing Director of MiMOMax Wireless Limited reports:

"Radio Spectrum; the most valuable resource in our business. They are not making any more of it and no amount of expenditure can create it. The only thing we can do is use it more wisely!

Our goal at MiMOMax (is) to deliver unequalled Spectral Efficiency in all our products. To be specific, high reliability Broadband in narrowband radio channels.

We were told by several academics on more than one occasion that what we were attempting could not be done, but today we are delivering solutions based on high order modulation narrowband MiMO, reliably providing up to 320 kb/s in 25 kHz licensed channels.

We are grateful to FCS for recognising the uniqueness in this value proposition and giving us the opportunity to showcase our wares.

Also our sincerest thanks go to;
-          Other deserving competitors in this category for making the competition possible
-          JRC for finding spectrum for us to prove our products do what we said they would do.
-          Our Utility business partners for supporting us with business based on technology they had never seen
-          Simoco for sponsoring the prize and recognising what we had was unique
-          Angus Tait our original founder, for his belief in the value of innovation as a driver of future prosperity."

Lastly, but importantly, it should not go amiss, having described the technological success of the OPV, MiMOMax acknowledges with much appreciation that they would not have attained such results, without the generous assistance from The (New Zealand) Foundation of Research, Science and Technology (FoRST).

MiMOMax Wireless signs Distribution Agreement with Tait Radio Communications

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:58:50 +1200

MiMOMax signs Distribution Agreement with Tait Radio Communications

MiMOMax has been working with a number of channel partners to deliver a 400Mhz spectrally efficient, low latency solution linking solution suitable for linking Private Mobile Radio (PMR) sites together. On the 16th of April, MiMOMax concluded negotiations with Tait Radio Communications, for the non-exclusive distribution of MiMOMax's NDL product, for PMR linking applications. The aim is to enable MiMOMax's partners to deliver complete PMR solutions which include the site linking, solution for conventional, QS, MPT and Digital systems.

The MiMOMax Network Digital Link (NDL), with Ethernet connectivity, has recently been tested and endorsed by Tait Radio Communications, for use on P25 Conventional and Simulcast systems. Tait Radio Communications indicate that they have been very impressed with performance. This endorsement was published on TaitWorld, and can be viewed through the following link:

Tait Radio Communications endorses MiMOMax's Network Digital Link (NDL) on its P25 Network

About MiMOMax:

About Tait Radio Communications:

Tait Radio Communications is a global leader in designing and delivering radio solutions, which serve a variety of industries including; public safety agencies, government services, utilities and urban transport providers. While corporate functions are based in Christchurch, New Zealand, the company prides itself on its international customer base and global support network. Tait Radio Communications works with a network of sales & support offices, dealers, system integrators and consultants, of who span the globe.

Quad -Array Loop Yagi Antenna

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:01:19 +1200

Quad -Array Loop Yagi Antenna

MiMOMax Wireless Limited has released a new Quad- Array combination, of its Loop Yagi Antenna. The Quad Array enhances signal gain by up to 6 dB, compared with the single Dual Polarised Yagi. As the Quad - Array will, in most cases, be positioned at both ends of a link, a significant improvement in path gain of up to 12 dB is able to be obtained over the path The core benefit of this is a substantial increase in range, of up to 2-3 times, depending on the path characteristics.

OPV Series ll Ultra Low Latency

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:02:24 +1200

OPV Series ll Ultra Low Latency

The Series II Optimised Protection Variant (OPV) MiMOMax Linking product achieves new ultra-low latency.

The OPV II now with a blistering 5.05ms end to end link latency (including X21 interfaces) is capable of meeting Cat I,II,& III Protection relay ENA communications requirements.

Overall end to end link Latency has been over halved, while still maintaining the same levels of spectral efficiency and functionality.

Download the latest data sheet for specifications. Application notes for interfacing to various manufactures protection equipment is currently being prepared and will be posted as this information is generated.

Finalist in Innovator of the Year

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:18:56 +1200

MiMOMax's CTO Doug Mc Connell was selected as a finalist in the 2008 TUANZ Innovation Awards in the category of Innovator of the Year.

Doug was recognised not only for his leadership in heading the research team that developed the MiMOMax Indoor/Outdoor radio modem, but also for the unique and innovative design of his matching family of bi-quad diverstiy antenna solutions.

These antenna's offer very high gain while preserving a broad beam width ensuring ease of installation and long path performance. These antennas offer an inherent pattern diversity and optional additional spatial diversity in both 2x2 and 2x4 MiMO configurations.

MiMOMax Demonstrates Breakthrough in Spectral Efficiency

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:20:23 +1200

MiMOMax Demonstrates Breakthrough in Spectral Efficiency

21 July 2008, Christchurch, New Zealand

MiMOMax wireless has demonstrated its fastest yet version of its MiMO narrowband linking product, achieving what is believed to be the fastest commercial narrowband linking speeds available anywhere. In the process MiMOMax also beat known products from around the globe in achieving narrowband spectral efficiency notes Paul Daigneault, Managing Director of MiMOMax Wireless Limited.

Most competitive high performance radio linking products are capable of cramming 64-kilobits of data per second in a 25-kilohertz slice of radio spectrum over a reasonable distance with a high reliability factor and low probability of error. In the narrowband radio world, this is not a bad level of performance when all things are considered states Doug McConnell, MiMOMax’s Chief technology Officer.

The MiMOMax Network Digital Link (NDL) product reliably achieved 320-kilobits per second, over 4 times this data throughput in the same channel space. “Spectrum is a finite and a valuable resource,” states Daigneault. “This is a huge technological breakthrough. We were told by many experts that this simply could not be done. The simplest comparison I can make is like suddenly being able to achieve double or better the fuel consumption of an internal combustion engine”.

“This has tremendous economic benefits to users”, states Daigneault. “Although the equipment comes with a slightly higher technology and component cost, the benefits are derived over the whole lifetime of the product. In practical terms these systems are typically used by utilities, public safety organisations and the like to monitor and control their systems. This allows power and water suppliers for example to improve the quality and reliability of their distribution systems by monitoring and controlling more elements in real time. Having the additional data capacity also ensures that as the ongoing requirement for more information grows in the future, the systems will still have the capacity to cope. It also allows the spectrum regulators to slice up the radio channels into smaller and smaller pieces ensuring that maximum economic benefit is derived from each slice of this valuable resource”, states Daigneault.

Paul Daigneault and Doug McConnell were formerly Tait senior executives who set up MiMOMax as a separate entity under the Tait group of companies to exploit rapidly evolving advanced wireless technologies. “Moving those engineers over to a completely new structure is also a prime example of organisational innovation to tackle new markets and segments," says Paul Daigneault. We are very excited by the change and have several more innovations to come in the near future.

Technical Background

In normal circumstances, multiple signals on the same radio channels generally interfere with each other in many different ways, often making reception impossible for standard receivers. However MiMOMax by using MiMO transceivers (Multiple Input Multiple Output) in conjunction with very high power digital signal processing techniques, has made it possible to resolve the different information encapsulated in the different radio signals and then recombine these intelligently in a manner that dramatically improves information throughput in narrowband radio channels.

Thanks to the research work completed in conjunction with leading international wireless research universities and some assistance through New Zealand's Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, MiMOMax is currently ahead of competition it has actual working narrow band products available today. Because radio spectrum is finite, any gain in spectral efficiency is extremely valuable. The application of MiMO technology has the potential to provide the next breakthrough in data throughput and spectral efficiency.

MiMOMax releases proprietary Cognizant Adaptive Modulation Scheme (M-CAM)

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:21:35 +1200

MiMOMax releases proprietary Cognizant Adaptive Modulation Scheme (M-CAM)

MiMOMax has established a high spectral efficiency 320kb/s NDL link between Sugar Loaf Hill and Burnside in Christchurch. Sugar Loaf is a very busy shared site with a number of high powered TV and other transmitters including several operating in the same band as the MiMOMax transmitter. The site is well engineered, but with so many high powered transmitters sharing the site, it has some unique engineering challenges.

Without installing any additional filtering, the MiMOMax links worked first time at full throughput. This is a good testament to the selectivity performance of the MiMOMax equipment and ease of set-up of a link. Initially however the up-link would periodically suffer from some interference, which would cause the link Bit Error Rate (BER) to increase and in some cases cause the link to have to re-set to fully recover.

MiMOMax then remotely loaded its new proprietary Smart Adaptive Modulation scheme (known as M-CAM) on to the system. The Cognizant Adaptive Modulation scheme monitors the link performance in real time and makes decisions about the suitability of a particular modulation scheme given the current RF environment. Then M-CAM works to optimize the throughput at any particular point in time by altering the modulation scheme to best accommodate the link.

Following the implementation of M-CAM the NDL showed no deterioration at all in the down link latency or data rate, (and was already running at full link capacity) and only a slight deterioration in the up-link instantaneous throughput. Link performance met specified error rates in both directions and link integrity was maintained throughout the tests.

Further tests have confirmed that including the M-CAM option may achieve the following:
• Increase system range
• Reduce data error rate
• Increase average throughput
• Provide additional fade protection
• Provide some interference protection
• Minimise any link drop-out

MiMOMax Releases New Ultra Linear Dual MiMO Transmiter

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:23:03 +1200

MiMOMax Releases New Ultra Linear Dual MiMO Transmiter

MiMOMax has released the latest enhancement in the range of MiMO solutions.

Enhancements include;
» Increased Power Output and headroom
» Better efficiency across all modulation types
» Improved Linearity
» Wider Bandwidth
» Improved Ruggedness

The new enhanced transmitter is one of a number of new design enhancements released in the past month designed to support the new higher performance adaptive modulation single antenna indoor/outdoor MiMO solutions.

Tait Spins off Group Research Division

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:25:01 +1200

Tait Spins off Group Research Division

Tait Electronics Limited has spun-off part of its Group Research division working in the field of ultra high spectral efficiency radio, as a separate company within the Tait Group.

MiMOMax Wireless Limited is made up of 14 employees who formerly worked on advanced wireless technologies for Tait Electronics Limited. The two companies remain part of the Tait Group of companies, owned by the Tait Trusts.

MiMOMax has been at the cutting edge of the emerging Multiple Input / Multiple Output (MiMO) and Space Time coded radio technologies which allow large quantities of data to be sent at high speed over wireless networks. An example application could be a utility company spread across varied terrain wanting real-time monitoring of resources and distribution networks.

Tait Electronics is splitting off promising hi-tech parts of the business

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:26:08 +1200

Tait Electronics is splitting off promising hi-tech parts of the busines

The electronics exporter, which is based in Christchurch, is protected from foreign ownership because Sir Angus Tait put it into a trust about 14 years ago. He died last year, aged 88.

Yesterday, however, it announced part of its group research division had been spun off as a separate company. "More such moves were likely in the future" says Tait Managing Director.

The new company, MiMOMax Wireless, would be owned by Tait Trusts, but its managing director Paul Daigneault said external shareholders could be taken on in the future to help raise capital. It is intended to retain New Zealand ownership with Tait Group as the majority shareholder, however.

"We're trying to create an environment where MiMOMmax will provide high tech opportunities for New Zealanders"

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The MiMOMax Team Continues to Grow

"MiMOMax has the ability to simplify wireless service delivery whilst enabling a greater degree and ease of control over these services (voice / data / IP).

MiMOMax facilitates the migration of legacy wireless communications networks over to an IP based platform thus hastening the transition of information into modern, computer based networks. Higher security, faster speeds and less hardware required to achieve a unified wireless solution.

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- MiMOMax Data Acceleration Protocols (M-DAP )