Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs LightRadio Cube "Cell Tower" Rare Technology - $499 - (Zachary, LA)

Extremely rare Alcatel Lucent-Bell Labs Cell Tower Replacement, known as the LightRadio Cube. These appeared in 2011 and were around until about 2014. Cutting edge technology that never really took off. Auction is for one cube. Some background info: Alcatel-Lucent's research arm, Bell Labs, has shrunk the radio components — diplexer, radio, amplifier and passive cooling — and put them into a small cube, weighing about 300g, which can be connected to a fibre network. The processing components are shrunk onto a Freescale system-on-a-chip (SoC) that can be placed alongside the radio cube on the mast or elsewhere — an approach that allows for easier maintenance as it requires less on-site upkeep. HP is collaborating with Alcatel-Lucent on the virtualised processing platform that will control the load. Wim Sweldens, the president of Alcatel-Lucent's Wireless Division, said at the launch in London that the LightRadio cube can be used for 2G, 3G or 4G transmission as needed. "At the click of a button, it can address any frequency used by any operator in the world," Sweldens said, adding that the device was capable of dynamically adapting the radio signal and radio power to address demand in real time. "This cube is a fully functional unit — you just need to connect it and you have replaced all these technologies." Javier Garcia Gomez, who headed up the Bell Labs team that came up with LightRadio, said at the launch that around 20 LightRadio cubes — the devices can be stacked — would be needed to replace the average 3G base station, although this number can vary dramatically according to the use case. Mobile network costs Sweldens claimed that, over three years, LightRadio would be able to cut the total cost of owning and operating a mobile network by more than 50 percent. He also said LightRadio infrastructure would use half the energy of current infrastructure — Bell Labs estimates that base stations are responsible for 18 million metric tons of CO2 emiss…

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