Interdigital, AirHop Show Off SON at MWC

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. -- InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDCC) today announced the collaboration with AirHop on developing synergistic solutions for bandwidth management, multi-cell interference management, and capacity optimization for heterogeneous networks (HetNets), key elements in addressing the bandwidth crunch. InterDigital’s innovative bandwidth management software (BWM), integrated with AirHop’s eSON™ software suite, provides capacity optimization and seamless connectivity across cellular, WiFi®, and other networks. The combined solution will be demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 27 through March 1, 2012.

InterDigital has developed innovative policy-driven bandwidth management solutions that enable seamless connectivity, mobility, offload and new services over multiple heterogeneous networks. The technology enables service providers to optimally leverage bandwidth from all available networks, via intelligent assignment of applications to network links, based on quality of service requirements, policy and network conditions. These solutions also allow service providers to maximize network assets and introduce new premium services with tiered pricing plans.

AirHop provides complementary advanced SON (Self-Organizing Network) solutions that manage interference and increase available capacity in a multi-cell and multiple network configuration. AirHop’s eSON™ software suite provides real-time optimization of available radio resources via multi-cell coordination to effectively provide coverage, capacity and Quality of Service (QoS) for each cell and individual user. This is especially critical in HetNet deployments where a large number of unplanned small cells can exist within a macro-cell.

InterDigital Inc. (Nasdaq: IDCC)