Modesat’s new modem represents a highly integrated baseband solution incorporating an adaptive coding and modulation feature for robust communication; powerful LDPC forward error correction for improved threshold performance; adaptive pre-distortion; I/Q imbalance compensation; support for multiple Gigabit Ethernet ports; SyncE; and 1588v2. Optionally, the modem can be supplied with an internal Carrier Ethernet switch for enhanced networking capabilities, or interfaced with an external unit.

“In the era where mobile data traffic is growing more than 150% a year, we will rapidly approach the point where network backhaul capacity has to support several Gigabits of data. In the traditional microwave domain (the dominant backhaul technology today) available channel bandwidth and throughput is limited. Ultra high frequency bands such as the E-band allow effective spectrum reuse and therefore scalability beyond Gigabit” said Bernard Xavier, CEO of Modesat. “Through Modesat’s breakthrough modem technology, coupled with industry leading mm-wave module solutions by our partners from Sivers IMA, we intend to provide building blocks for our OEM customers to quickly enter the E-band and V-band market segment and at very competitive price points”.

Modesat will announce the industry’s highest capacity wideband modem in Barcelona at the World Mobile Congress, where a demonstration link will be set up using modem evaluation boards and Sivers IMA mm-wave modules. Modesat invites interested companies to register for the meeting and demo at http://www.modesat.com/category/events/.

The new modem will become available to customers for evaluation and testing starting in April 2012. For further product information and inquiries please contact sales@modesat.com.

About Modesat CommunicationsModesat Communications is a developer of industry’s leading point-to-point microwave and upper millimeter wave modems. Modesat offers modem solution products for wireless communication applications utilizing its patented PilotSync™ technology that provides higher data throughput, better spectrum efficiency and communication link reliability at low hardware costs. The company has offices in Europe and San Diego, US.

About SiversIMA

Sivers IMA is a 9001:2008 certified company and one of the leading independent European manufacturers of advanced microwave products. Our customers can be found in a multitude of markets, telecommunication, test & measurement, research and military. Our strengths are unique skills in complex design and high-end frequencies. Sivers IMA offers customized microwave products in addition to our standard products.

PilotSync is a trademark of Modesat Communications. All other trademarks, service marks and company names are the property of their respective owners.More information:

Modesat contacts:
Mr. Tarmo Pihl, VP Business Development and Sales
Telephone +372 712 0280, mobile +372 50 19568, e-mail info@modesat.com
www.modesat.com

Sivers IMA contacts:
Mr. Gunnar Bringel, Sales & Marketing Manager
Telephone +468 703 68 00, mobile +4670 766 40 49, e-mail gunnar.bringel@siversima.com
www.siversima.com

• World’s first 2Gbps wideband modem with advanced features like Adaptive Coding and Modulation, LDPC FEC, adaptive predistortion, higher order modulations, 250MHz channel spacing with scalable design for multiple channels and up to 8Gbps data rates. The modem is suitable for eBand and V-Band applications and is coupled with millimeter wave transceivers, giving our OEM customers a shortcut to new millimeter wave product designs and launches.
• 1024QAM point to point microwave modem, with enhanced features such as LDPC and XPIC, and internal network processing unit. All that in a single chip!

Modesat welcomes interested parties to register for the one to one meeting to demonstrate the products and discuss cooperation opportunities. Please register through Information Request field on the left side of the page.

“Expanding our operations to San Diego is a noteworthy step – having the Engineering Centre in world-class electronics cluster enables to benefit from local top notch engineering resource and be also closer to our US customers” said Mr Peep Põldsamm, CEO and the President of Modesat Communications. “As our business model requires our significant involvement in customer modem design, having separate engineering team based in San Diego helps to ensure our availability in the US, but also find best people to match the challenging design requirements of our customers. US subsidiary is the first step towards our global expansion, and very soon we hope to see similar presence in Asia”.

Large scale migration towards LTE, UMB and 802.16m require substantial increases in aggregated backhaul capacities, and cost efficient and high throughput backhaul solutions are demanded by the market. With congested frequency resource at lower frequencies, strong interest towards higher frequencies will drive the market further. Modesat has positioned itself to be a partner to all OEMs, who are looking forward such high capacity point to point radios, and are willing to maintain control over their design to outperform thier competitors. 

About Modesat Communications

Modesat Communications is a developer of point-to-point modem technology with R&D centers in Estonia and Belarus, and representative offices in Silicon Valley (USA), Tel Aviv (Israel), Tallinn (Estonia) and Gomel (Belarus). Modesat offers modem solution products for wireless and wired communication applications utilizing its patented PilotSync™ technology that provides higher data throughput, better spectrum efficiency and communication link reliability at low hardware costs.

PilotSyncTM is a trademark of Modesat Communications. All other trademarks, service marks and company names are the property of their respective owners.

More information:

Modesat contacts:
Mr. Tarmo Pihl, VP Business Development and Sales
Telephone +372 712 0280, mobile +372 50 19568, e-mail info@modesat.com
www.modesat.com

BARCELONA, Spain February 14, 2011 – At Barcelona Mobile World Congress 2011, Modesat Communications revealed a new 1024QAM adaptive modem, which supports up to 820 Mbps in single low cost FPGA. Bringing greater capacity to next generation wireless backhaul and access radio equipment manufacturers and telecom operators, the modem supplements the Modesat’s PilotSync^TM based microwave radio portfolio. 

“While 2G and 2.5G networks required 18-100 Mbps capacity at base station collector points, the new LTE based networks require at least 500 Mbps, and with next releases of LTE versions already 1-3 Gbps” said Peep Põldsamm, President and CEO of Modesat. “Also, capacity requirements towards transportation between individual base stations and collector points have risen significantly. All in all, we see at least 25 times of difference”.

256QAM based modem solutions with data rates up to 311 Mbps have become already industry-standard for point to point microwave radios. However, this capacity is not sufficient for addressing the backhaul bottlenecks in cost efficient way. “We are in constant search for higher capacity, and there are basically two significant physical characteristics that define capacity – it is the modulation rate and channel spacing. We have addressed both – our new modem supports up to 112MHz of channel spacing, and 1024QAM modulation” commented Dr Sanguoon Chung, CTO of Modesat Communications. “This is the highest capacity single chip solution on the market today”.

1024QAM modem has been designed keeping in mind stringent phase noise tolerance and low latency requirements that accompany new all-IP based networks. The modem supports adaptive coding and modulation, ATPC, Ethernet, including Jumbo frames.

About Modesat Communications

Modesat Communications is a developer of point-to-point modem technology with R&D centers in Estonia and the US, and representative offices in San Diego (USA), Tel Aviv (Israel), Tallinn (Estonia) and Gomel (Belarus). Modesat offers modem solution products for wireless and wired communication applications utilizing its patented PilotSync™ technology that provides higher data throughput, better spectrum efficiency and communication link reliability at low hardware costs.

PilotSyncTM is a trademark of Modesat Communications. All other trademarks, service marks and company names are the property of their respective owners.

More information:

Modesat contacts:
Mr. Tarmo Pihl, VP Business Development and Sales
Telephone +372 712 0280, mobile +372 50 19568, e-mail info@modesat.com
www.modesat.com

For meeting requests, please contact us via our contact form on the right or our general email info@modesat.com.

The investment is jointly committed by existing shareholder Ambient Sound Investments, an investment vehicle formed by 4 former lead engineers of Skype, the Estonian Development Fund, a national VC fund, and privately owned financial investor Bellus. A total investment is 1.85 million EUR, which will help company in expanding its operations and introduce new generation of modems in microwave and millimeter wave radio field.

“Although point to point broadband radio market has generally suffered in 2008 and 2009 due to abrupt dip in telecom investments, there were still segments where growth rates were triple digit. Such areas are for instance high capacity hybrid radios, which bridge legacy and future IP based networks, as well as pure Ethernet based radios” said Peep Põldsamm, CEO of Modesat Communications. “In 2010 and onwards we expect the market to recover, and see demand for high capacity radios to grow even further. To be able to serve this demand, we need to expand both in terms of stronger market presence as well as product selection”.

“Modesat Communications has a good market potential, where rapidly increasing demand at long time-to-market is sustaining OEMs interest towards company’s products” said Mr Andrus Oks, the representative of Estonian Development Fund.

Modesat develops and provides FPGA-based high capacity modulator-demodulator IP Cores and SoC (System-on-Chip) solutions for TDM, Hybrid and Ethernet Radios based on its patented PilotSyncTM technology. Modesat products are software upgradable to account for future requirements, and hence are designed to support longer life cycle of radio units.

About Modesat Communications

Modesat Communications is a developer of point-to-point modem technology with R&D centers in Estonia and Belarus, and representative offices in Silicon Valley (USA), Tel Aviv (Israel), Tallinn (Estonia) and Gomel (Belarus). Modesat offers modem solution products for wireless and wired communication applications utilizing its patented PilotSync™ technology that provides higher data throughput, better spectrum efficiency and communication link reliability at low hardware costs.

PilotSyncTM is a trademark of Modesat Communications. All other trademarks, service marks and company names are the property of their respective owners.

More information:

Modesat contacts:
Mr. Tarmo Pihl, VP Business Development and Sales
Telephone +372 712 0280, mobile +372 50 19568, e-mail info@modesat.com
www.modesat.com

Dr. Chung will be leading strategic development of Modesat’s next generation modems to secure company’s outstanding position on point to point microwave, satellite communications and millimeter wave modems market. Dr. Chung will take responsibilities for managing the development of LTE compliant cellular backhaul modem solution for point to point microwaves, and digital millimeter wave modem solution for e-band radios.

Sanguoon Chung, 63, has successful development history of IS-95A, CDMA2000 1X, 1XEV-DV and WCDMA baseband modems and their corresponding handsets for wireless communication market. He has previously hold an executive level positions in several leading technology companies like AMD, Nokia Mobile Phones, Sony Wireless Technology, Samsung Electronics and Broadcom being responsible for the development of 2G and 3G baseband modems, their corresponding protocol software, and for future technology development for 4G baseband and Software Defined Radio. He also served as a Vice Chairman in WG3 (Physical layer development working group) in 3GPP2 standards body.

By joining Modesat, Dr. Chung will add years of experience in managing commercial development of next generation of modem technologies, required by 3G and LTE communication equipment vendors, who are selling higher transmission capacity to mobile operators. Modesat’s core product is 256QAM point to point modem for microwave radio supporting up to 800 Mbps data-rates and operations in up to 112 MHz channel. “The requirements for bandwidth efficiency rise fast – Modesat is expanding its products’ functionality in terms of capacity, application layer functionalities and interfaces to comply with the requirements the next generation mobile backhaul will pose,” said Mr Peep Poldsamm, President and CEO of Modesat. “Dr Chung will support the company to coup with the increasing customers’ demand and growing engineering organization.”

“I see exciting opportunities for Modesat in mobile backhaul segment, which is rapidly evolving market due to the roll-out of 3G and 4G networks,” said Dr. Sanguoon Chung. “Capitalizing on Modesat’s experience in modem technologies, there are unparalleled window of opportunity for becoming one of the leading suppliers of point to point modem IPs and chips, which are massively required in new generation of high-capacity radios. This has been a personal driver for me in joining the company, and accepting this challenging position to contribute to the success of the company.”

Dr. Sanguoon Chung earned his PhD in electrical engineering from University of California, Davis. Dr. Chung is the author of 7 US patents, and numerous IEEE scientific publications.

Modesat develops and provides FPGA-based high capacity modulator-demodulator IP Cores and SoC (System-on-Chip) solutions for TDM, Hybrid and Ethernet Radios based on its patented PilotSync^TM technology. Modesat products are software upgradable to account for future requirements, and hence are designed to support longer life cycle of radio units. Modesat offers its customers a future proof modem design, providing either modem IP or hardcopy chips.

About Modesat Communications

Modesat Communications is a developer of point-to-point modem technology with R&D centers in Estonia and Belarus, and representative offices in Silicon Valley (USA), Tel Aviv (Israel), Tallinn (Estonia) and Gomel (Belarus). Modesat offers modem solution products for wireless and wired communication applications utilizing its patented PilotSync™ technology that provides higher data throughput, better spectrum efficiency and communication link reliability at low hardware costs.

PilotSyncTM is a trademark of Modesat Communications. All other trademarks, service marks and company names are the property of their respective owners.

More information:

Modesat contacts:
Mr. Tarmo Pihl, VP Business Development and Sales
Telephone +372 712 0280, mobile +372 50 19568, e-mail info@modesat.com
www.modesat.com

Entrepreneur Prize competition is an annual grand event organized by Enterprise Estonia and Estonian Chamber of Trade and Commerce to pay recognition to the most successful companies. Companies were participating in different categories such as Innovator, Foreign Investor, Exporter, Developer and Tourism Facilitator. Modesat was the winner of Innovator 2009 category, followed by Estonian leading mobile operator EMT AS and NowInnovations!

“This is the highest recognition to our team – recognition to our scientists, who have developed a revolutionizing technology, engineers who have turned technology into products, and the management, who has the difficult task of commercializing the novel products in a successful way.” said Mr Peep Põldsamm, CEO of Modesat. “The customers we are talking to would also appreciate this recognition, as they themselves are innovative companies and they certainly expect this also from their business partners”.

About Modesat Communications

Modesat Communications is a developer of point to point modem technology with R&D centers in Estonia, Belarus, and Russia, and representative offices in Silicon Valley (USA), Tel Aviv (Israel), Tallinn (Estonia) and Gomel (Belarus). Modesat offers modem solution products for wireless and wired communication applications utilizing its patented PilotSync™ technology that provides higher data throughput, better spectrum efficiency and communication link reliability at low hardware costs. The core investor of Modesat is Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), the investment firm of the founding engineers of Skype.

PilotSync is a trademark of Modesat Communications. All other trademarks, service marks and company names are the property of their respective owners.

More information:

Modesat contacts:
Mr. Tarmo Pihl, VP Business Development and Sales
Telephone +372 712 0280, e-mail info@modesat.com
www.modesat.com

The outcome of the development is a prototype modem, which can be further developed to a commercial quality product for delivering DVB applications. As company itself is in IP business, the product will be satellite point to point modem IP Core. The project will last for 21 months.

Modesat Communications

Modesat Communications is an R&D company that is working on developing high throughput point to point modem IPs for satellite, microwave and cable applications. The company is based in Tallinn, Estonia and Gomel, Belarus. Besides ASI, Modesat shareholders include its CEO Tarmo Pihl and three foreign nationals. In the coming months, the company plans to hire 10 employees.

For more information, please contact:

Tarmo Pihl

CEO and Chairman
Modesat Communications
info@modesat.com