Document date: Fri 31 May 2002 Published: Fri 31 May 2002 14:08:58 Document No: 217195 Document part: A Market Flag: N Classification: Chairman's Address to Shareholders CAPE RANGE WIRELESS LIMITED 2002-05-31 ASX-SIGNAL-G
HOMEX - Perth
+++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Company is pleased to advise that Telekom R&D, a subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia and the Company are actively pursuing ways to incorporate the Company's Havana technology into fixed and mobile wireless products. The specific aspects of the relationship is currently being defined and shareholders will be given specific details of the arrangement when documentation has been completed and accepted by the boards of both companies.
Shareholders are reminded of the advantages of the Company's two major technologies, namely iPMA and Havana in a summary at the end of this announcement. Both of these technologies are already commercialized in the current ARCADIAN Wireless Communications System.
INSTALLATION PROGRESS
The Company has been receiving completed PCBs and other components per the scheduled build plans for the ARCADIAN Wireless Communications System product line from ITS, the Company's contract manufacturer.
Installation in Perak State is proceeding on schedule. Revenue from this contract as well as the initial contract for 120,000 access lines will see the Company achieve its first revenue this year.
COMMUNICASIA
The Company will be officially launching its international marketing campaign for the Arcadian product line at CommunicAsia, which commences on 18 June 2002. CommunicAsia is widely considered as the premier telecom show in Asia and last year had over 48,000 attendees. Most major telecommunication equipment firms will be exhibiting.
This trade show is considered by the Company to be the best venue for the launch of the Company's international marketing effort.
Cape Range will be hosting several events during the show at which it will, in association with customers and commercial partners, announce details that have commercial relevance to the value of the Company.
The Company will be presenting its product range at a booth alongside its international competitors.
IPMA
iPMA supports voice via a conventional telephone hand set as well as high-speed data for PCs. This protocol allows simultaneous transmission from both the remote and the base independently. As a result, it carries voice efficiently and is suited to handle the asymmetrical data requirement caused when users download Web pages to their PC's.
iPMA guarantees that the maximum latency that will occur for voice, maintains telephone voice quality of service. This is not guaranteed with standard IP. iPMA allows for extra throughput as bandwidth does not have to be reserved to handle the probability that multiple users will need to transmit at the same time.
The design of this system is similar to that of a highway. For example, if cars can be moved in an orderly way from ramps onto a highway, not as many lanes (bandwidth) are needed to maintain a constant speed of traffic. This requires that all cars (messages) entering the highway enter in a coordinated way. iPMA guarantees that all voice information enters the radio link in such an orderly way.
iPMA is designed for coverage over a wide area compared to mobile cellular protocols which are designed for very high teledensity deployment over short distances.
Where iPMA achieves 84% - 96% of the bandwidth available for payload, CDMA can only achieve around 50%.
International patents are pending for iPMA. The Cape Range Wireless', ARCADIAN Wireless Communications System has been exclusively designed around this protocol
HAVANA
Perhaps the biggest single global application for Havana is the reduction in power output from hand held cell phones using CDMA and other 3G systems. Havana is a new type of propriety Spread Spectrum base band processor. Havana technology allows the ARCADIAN Wireless Communications System to receive very low-level signals, even at distances of up to 50km. Havana can achieve 6.8 times the data throughput of a CDMA2000 IX system while maintaining over 18 dB processing gain. The technology can also be used to reduce the transmitted power requirements for a CDMA cell phone to about 1/8 of the current systems. The first version of Havana is being sold as part of the ARCADIAN Wireless Communications System. Havana technology can be incorporated in Fixed WLL, Cellular and LAN markets.
At the Shareholders AGM, Cape Range shareholders were able to take part and experience first hand communications using the Arcadian Wireless technology. The base station and remote were installed and operated at the West Perth office premises using the wireless link to dial and communicate to any location in the world, and in particular back to the R&D offices located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Overall the Company has made excellent technical and commercial progress and remains on schedule this year with all of its developments
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