Deployable Multi-Band Radio Base Station Navy SBIR FY2012.2 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2012.2 Topic No.: N122-148 Topic Title: Deployable Multi-Band Radio Base Station Proposal No.: N122-148-0798 Firm: KinetX, Inc 2050 East ASU Circle Suite 107 Tempe, Arizona 85284 Contact: Scott White Phone: (480) 688-6017 Web Site: www.kinetx.com Abstract: This offer proposes a set of activities to provide an innovative Deployable WCDMA Multi-Band Radio Base Station. The effort entails investigation, trade studies, and architecture design to support an easily fielded, transportable WCDMA Base Station not typical of mainstream communication deployments. The derived solution will support both military and commercial applications where terrestrial or satellite communications may not be available. The investigations for this project will focus on how multi-band, differing protocol (3GPP and MUOS) WCDMA channels can be supported by a single transportable radio base station, and options for interfacing users on these channels to their respective carriers such as the MUOS geosynchronous satellite system. The investigations will specifically address the challenges associated with interfacing a radio base station to MUOS network infrastructure equipment; resulting in a solution that will ensure communications features that meets the needs of the war fighters. Benefits: Members of the KinetX team previously developed a system similar to that requested in this SBIR; the previous system was based on IS-135 (TDMA) for cellular infrastructure and was developed by Motorola. The prototype system that was built under this program was entirely successful, and customer demonstrations were held on several occasions. There is strong correlation between this SBIR and the referenced program; based on this previous experience KinetX believes that there is significant opportunity for commercialization of this system. We see several potential markets of interest. The first market is non-military but addresses a market comprising mostly government entities. This is the disaster management and first response area and we believe there to be significant opportunity in this market since the simple and rapid deployment of this system is consistent with first response needs. A second and newly emerging market involves that of establishing communications capability in the far northern latitudes that are beyond the line of sight of today's geo-synchronous communications satellites. A third market area is the commercial WCDMA market; we view the highest value for this system in situations requiring temporary augmentation of terrestrial infrastructure for increased capacity or for improved coverage. Return