The Challenge
Users:
Worldwide sales of wireless devices continue to grow dramatically. As markets mature, customers demand advanced services and features, reliable performance, prolonged battery life, shrinking device sizes, and low prices.
Device Manufacturers:
Device manufacturers must combat tough design constraints associated with radio-frequency (RF) interference and rapidly develop slim, differentiated designs. In addition, they must accomplish these tasks under intense market and cost pressures
while maintaining profitability in a highly competitive industry.
Service providers:
Service providers face massive network build-out costs to expand existing networks and implement new broadband data and video offerings. Steep competition to retain customers requires improved coverage in fringe areas and faster data rates without requiring expensive towers.
The SkyCross Solution
Our one-stop solution combining
award-winning superior antenna technology,
RF Systems expertise, and
regional support sets designers free to create a full range of consumer
electronics products that are small, stylish, and differentiated:
Any wireless device
SkyCross antennas are compact to fit into the smallest form factors. Our versatile antenna technology can be applied to a wide range of mobile platforms including slim mobile handsets, smartphones, notebook computers, USB dongles, PC cards including ExpressCard/34, personal media players, access points,
MIDs, and more!
Any combination of features
SkyCross offers endless possibilities for designers to create mobile devices with any combination of features. The antenna can be molded to work around other components such as cameras, navigation units, data/Internet, video, music players, etc. Antennas are designed to conserve battery life and per-application performance as features are added for optimal system operation.
Any set of frequency bands
The frequency band is the defining factor of antenna design. Lower frequencies physically demand a larger antenna, yet SkyCross offers fully embedded solutions that operate as low as 180 MHz on some mobile video networks. Voice and data standards start at 850 MHz and can require as many as 5 bands. The highest frequencies supported by SkyCross antennas include 3-10 GHz for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications. Broadband, multi-band, or tunable antennas from SkyCross can cover wide bandwidths using a single structure, therefore simplifying device design for manufacturers.
Any network
Next-generation protocols continue to evolve as data rates become faster and new networks are deployed. SkyCross stays ahead of the curve with its protocol-independent solutions, offering antennas to meet all of the latest services. Often with a single antenna, SkyCross products can operate on any combination of networks including WiMAX, DVB-T/H, T-DMB, S-DMB, HSDPA, CDMA, GSM, UMTS, LTE, and beyond. Better performing devices on a network can improve coverage in fringe areas and
increase overall data rates without further infrastructure investment.
Any price point
SkyCross designs all antennas with manufacturing in mind, using off-the-shelf materials and minimizing complicated assembly processes. This keeps costs down for high-end devices and meets critical price points for low-end devices. For example, iMAT antenna technology enables a single antenna element to replace many, reducing
the bill of materials (BOM).
Any regional or global market
SkyCross technology is commercially proven every day in wireless networks around the globe. Highly trained engineers at our convenient regional centers are experienced with bringing products to market faster and easier.
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