ISCO Installs 200 'Proteus' 3G Spectrum Conditioning Units

ISCO (News - Alert) International has announced that the company has installed 200 Proteus spectrum conditioning units in Florida and Puerto Rico 3G base stations in the third quarter of 2011.

To condition the reverse RF link, the link from the subscriber’s device to the base station, which removes the negative effects of co-channel interference power and adjacent channel leakage, Spectrum (News - Alert) conditioning incorporates digital signal processing. Proven to cause poor customer experiences such as dropped calls and suboptimal data sessions; numerous interference sources surrounding wireless networks have been identified, the company stated in a press release.

“This milestone indicates that carriers are more and more realizing the value of spectrum conditioning in their networks to allow them to maximize utilization, or capacity, increase data transmission speeds and improve performance such as reducing dropped calls. The spectrum they already have is very valuable, maximizing that value by conditioning the spectrum to accommodate the growth of traffic coming from the accelerating adoption of smart phones and their data hungry applications is financially prudent,” said Gordon Reichard, CEO of ISCO International.

To counteract the many types of interference that degrade signal quality, capacity and network performance, these units have been deployed by Tier-1 wireless network operators. The deployments of ISCO’s Proteus (News - Alert) solution in Florida and Puerto Rico cover a combined 20 million people. Installations in these areas began in July 2011. ISCO has now shipped and installed more than 2000 spectrum conditioning units across the United States.

The company recently announced that Shenandoah Telecommunications (News - Alert) Co., which has a 3G network in the Northeast, has implemented Proteus in an effort to increase capacity, improve performance and ensure a good customer experience. As a result of the ISCO product, Shentel (News - Alert) saw its signal strength indicator level go from 15 to 20 percent; its dropped call rate fall by 46 percent; and its blocked call rate decrease by 13 percent.