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Anand Parthasarathy

Bangalore, Dec. 6 Taking research results from his PhD work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to fuel his own start-up eight years ago, Dr Vanu Bose helped create the mobile phone industry’s first solution that allows operators to switch from one standard — GSM — to the other — CDMA — swiftly, seamlessly, via software.

To take the offerings from the Cambridge (Mass.) US-based Vanu Inc, to the next level – that is 3G and 4G, he has turned to the land of his roots.

On Thursday, Dr Bose was in Bangalore to announce the setting up of an R&D centre in the city to address next-generation waveforms and technologies for wireless – from 4th generation cellular to WiMax broadband.

In a special briefing for Business Line on the sidelines of the official announcement, Dr Bose — son of Dr Amar Bose of Bose acoustics fame — explained why telecom operators worldwide would sooner or later have to cater to all competing standards – or fall by the way side.

“The ability to switch without hardware change, from CDMA to GSM or vice versa would be of great help to operators in India who are aspiring for spectrum in both technologies,” he said.

The Vanu-Bose-led development called Anywave Software Radio has been hailed by the Federal Communications Commission - the telecom regulator for the US, as “the first step in what may prove to be a radio technology revolution”.

Mr John Chapin, Vanu’s Vice-President for Industry and Government Relations, who wears an additional as Chairman of the Software Defined Radio Forum, the SDR industry association, suggested that while SDR was not exactly new, it is being deployed in mainstream applications like cellular telephony only now.

Mr Pradeep Malhotra, Managing Director of Vanu India, explained that the small 7-member team of developers in Bangalore would be swiftly ramped up in 2008 to take on the task of extending Vanu software solutions up the mobile ‘value chain’ to 3G and 4G.

And also brewing at the parent company is new technology that will allow customers to Do It Yourself when it comes to creating a home base station: that is, creating a mini mobile network in the home — typically all over one’s property — so that a weak or wavering signal from the provider is enhanced and evenly distributed all over. You will not have to say “I can’t hear you properly, let me climb a coconut tree to get better reception!”

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