no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . november 2011 airhop communications type private industry mobile wireless communications founded 2007 headquarters san diego ca area served worldwide products list eson software for 3g 4g wireless small cell basestations website www.airhopcomm.com airhop communications is a privately funded american corporation based in san diego ca . airhop develops radio access network ran software that addresses the installation operation and performance challenges of multi layer deployments of small cells in 3g and 4g networks . 1 2 3 airhop s customers are typically base station equipment vendors for wireless network operators . 4 contents 1 technology 2 history 3 industry recognition 4 references 5 external links technology edit airhop holds 20 patent applications for its eson self organizing network son software . 2 eson enables carriers to build a 3g or 4g lte heterogeneous network het net to augment existing macro base stations . many carriers are using small cells and self organizing networks to fill in gaps in 3g and 4g networks due to signal attenuation and add capacity . the 3rd generation partnership project 3gpp defined a son specification to allow basestations to discover each other when inserted into a network and to adjust their radio frequency rf signal strength to avoid overlap and interference . 5 6 airhop was founded to extend this technology beyond initial network start up to also provide ongoing interference management and spectrum reuse . 3 this gives carriers the ability to both initialize the network and ongoing ran intelligence to adjust signal levels as small cells come online and overlap with each other . 7 eson also optimizes spectrum reuse spectral efficiency enabling macrocells and small cells to share the same spectrum without interference communication . 5 8 9 history edit airhop was founded in 2007 by three engineers in charge of 3g research and development at texas instruments . they foresaw that the present wireless network infrastructure would have to change as part of the move to 4g technologies to support mobile broadband . 2 5 10 they left ti in october 2007 to begin developing son software . 4 the company announced a 1 million investment in september 2009 and added several wireless industry executives to its management team . 1 4 11 airhop showcased the first of its 3gpp long term evolution lte solutions by running an hd video transmission demonstration on texas instruments tci1648x dsp at ctia the wireless association in march 2009 . 12 in november 2009 the company announced its first product eson 13 and in february 2010 airhop partnered with continuous computing and picochip at mobile world congress 2010 to demonstrate a reference design for eson based on picochip s picoxcell high speed packet access hspa platform . 14 15 in october 2010 airhop and picochip announced the integration of eson with picochip s 3g picoxcell pc302 evolved hspa hspa platform . 7 airhop and argela demonstrated eson on a commercial 3g femtocell at mobile world congress in february 2011 16 and its first 4g lte customer was announced in may with the introduction of wazco s metrostorm metrocell . 17 18 19 industry recognition edit airhop has received industry recognition for its technology . the company was named to light reading mobile s list of top ten startups to watch in 2011 20 was named a fiercewireless fierce 15 top wireless company for 2010 21 and earned the telecom council of silicon valley spiffy award for most disruptive technology in 2011 . 22 23 references edit a b socaltech 9 08 11 socaltech interview with yan hui a b c san diego union tribune 11 29 10 airhop aims to unclog wireless jams a b fierce broadband wireless 9 13 09 start up targets lte network automation a b c xconomy 11 24 09 airhop adapting to dense wireless of the future develops self organizing networking software a b c urgent communications 11 11 09 lte vendors seek greater network automation 3gpp a b light reading mobile 10 18 10 airhop picochip scale back to 3g urgent communications 5 18 11 small cell product provides operators with lte capacity options lte world airhop announced evolved self organized networking solution for 4g lte wireless networks wireless week 9 05 11 newcomers set their sights on lte wireless week 9 14 09 airhop garners 1m adds management http www.highbeam.com doc 1g1 196828580.html highbeam business airhop communications partners with ti to demonstrate the first of its lte solutions at ctia the wireless association 2009 connected planet airhop announced evolved self organized networking solution for 4g lte wireless networks picochip.com airhop communications and continuous computing demonstrate world s first coordinated real time self organizing network solution for small cells on picochip platform mobility techzone airhop and continuous computing announce small cell reference design based on picochip s hspa platform light reading airhop argela announce demo femto with son light reading mobile 5 16 11 startup brews an lte small cell storm fierce wireless 5 16 11 wazco introduces multi sector small cell lte basestation wireless week 5 16 11 wazco s metrocell adds oomph to lte light reading mobile 12 24 10 2010 top ten startups to watch fierce wireless 5 18 10 fiercewireless announces annual fierce 15 winners rcr wireless 2 28 11 spiffy awards celebrate innovators telecom council of silicon valley 2 25 11 fourth annual telecom council spiffy award winners announced external links edit airhop eson hspa multiple femtocell demo heavy reading research report 4 2011 son a paradigm shift in 4g network operations retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title airhop communications & oldid 721227225 categories american companies established in 2007networking companies of the united stateswireless networkinghidden categories 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