Overview

  • Narrowband Ethernet Extender
  • Software controlled radio from 20 to 500 MHz
  • High spectral efficiency
  • Ultra fast synchronization
  • High speed mobility up to 300 km/h
  • No base station required
  • Configurable level of robustness vs. data rate
  • Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM)
  • Traffic based data rate adaption
  • Simple addition into existing network with no structural change

EtherNudge operates as a transparent cable replacement for a physical cable over air in a narrow band, mid or long distance communication system for stationary or mobile fading radio channels.

As an enhanced software configurable radio modem, EtherNudge allows for software controlled frequency and waveform setting based on environmental and regulatory needs.

Depending on the frequency, EtherNudge's communication range exceeds 100km with less than 1 Watt of mean transmission power.

EtherNudge is designed to work with line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight modes under the worst channel conditions presented by rough environments where it performs near the theoretical limits.

EtherNudge steps in where conventional solutions reach their limit.

Features

  • Transparent Narrowband Ethernet Extender Over the Air
  • Simplex, Frequency and Time Division Duplex
  • Continuously configurable frequencies from 20 MHz to 500 MHz
  • Configurable bandwidths from 6.25 kHz to 200 kHz in 6.25 kHz steps
  • Line-of-sight and Non-line-of-sight
  • Optimized for Mobile Applications
  • Built-in High Power Amplifier up to 1W mean
  • Web Interface Configuration, SNMP optional
  • Point-to-point, point-to-multipoint
  • Passive cooling with aluminum unibody housing

Applications

  • Fast moving vehicles such as cars, trains, helicopters, ships, drones, etc.
  • Hard to access areas, e.g. forests, mountains, offshore, etc.
  • Temporary installations where fast commissioning is key, such as emergency situations
 

Technical Details

  • Waveforms
    • OFDM forms: Mobile, Stationary
    • Modulation from QAM-4 to QAM-65536
    • Different setup of pilots, cyclic prefix ,Trellis states and other parameters
  • Spectral efficiency
    • Mobile - up to 7 bps/Hz
    • Stationary - up to 9 bps/Hz
  • Waveform specific features
    • Synchronization time less than 100 ms
    • Multipath evaluation of up to 6 fingers
    • Doppler robustness for up to 300 km/h signal velocity differences
    • Multistage channel estimation to deal with multipath and Doppler effects
  • System features
    • Jitter cleaning - especially effective in TDD mode
    • Instant-On: Power up to signal on air < 800 ms
    • Direct Sampling of transmitter and receiver
    • GaN wideband power amplifier
    • Wide dynamic range multiband receiver with unique non-loss AGC (patent pending)