RAYSPAN® MTM-SNAP™ Technology to Lower the Manufacturing Cost of Balanced Antennas
San Diego, CA, May 24, 2010 -- RAYSPAN® Corporation, the world's only provider of metamaterial air interface solutions for wireless communications, today announced the availability of MTM-SNAP™ manufacturing technology for balanced antennas. MTM-SNAP™ allows OEMs and ODMs to design highperformance balanced antennas directly on the device PCB, eliminating the need for external dipole antennas.
MTM-SNAP™ manufacturing technology uses free space on the PCB panel to print the RAYSPAN® MTM-B™ antenna design during a standard PCB fabrication process. The MTM-B™ antenna is either printed as a part of each PCB unit, where it is stamped and snapped out along with each PCB, or alternatively the antennas can be grouped together in free areas of the PCB panel, precut and snapped out as individual units. The antenna unit can then be connected to the PCB using a standard antenna cable. The MTM-SNAP™ process is implemented 100% by the PCB manufacturer, eliminating the need for third party components and processes.
"Typical dipole antennas add significantly to the ODM’s BOM costs," stated Gregory Poilasne, VP of Business Development at RAYSPAN®. "Using MTMSNAP™ allows our customers to save up to 25% over the lowest cost standard dipole antennas".
MTM-B™ antennas using the MTM-SNAP™ manufacturing technology also offer significant performance benefits over dipole antennas, with up to 20% better performance at close and mid-range and 35% over longer distances. RAYSPAN® MTM-SNAP™ is available for license today for OEM and ODM customers.
About RAYSPAN®RAYSPAN® is the world's only provider of metamaterial technology for wireless communications. RAYSPAN® proprietary metamaterials and other advanced RF air interface solutions provide breakthrough improvements in antenna and RF front-end component miniaturization, performance, cost reduction and ease of manufacture. RAYSPAN's solutions support a full range of fixed and mobile wireless WAN and LAN applications including WiFi, all 2/3/4G cellular handsets, Bluetooth and GPS. They enable ultra-compact, multi-band, multi-mode and/or MIMO WLAN devices and cellular handsets with superior communication speed, range and mobility at reduced costs. For more information visit www.rayspan.com.
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