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Airgain Announces AirgainConnect™, its Integrated Modem and Antenna Platform
Airgain’s antenna-modem combines antenna and integrated FirstNet Ready™ HPUE (High Power User Equipment) Band 14 LTE modem in a single enclosure for Public
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nAirgain’s antenna-modem combines antenna and integrated FirstNet Ready™ HPUE (High Power User Equipment) Band 14 LTE modem in a single enclosure for Public Safety and Fleet Vehicles\n\n SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nAirgain, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRG), a leading provider of advanced antenna technologies used to enable high performance wireless networking across a broad range of devices and markets, including consumer, enterprise, and automotive, today announced AirgainConnect™ AC-HPUE, the first antenna-modem from its AirgainConnect platform. AirgainConnect AC-HPUE includes an integrated FirstNet Ready™ high-power LTE modem supporting the 3GPP Band 14 High Power UE output power functionality. Band 14 spectrum is the nationwide, high-quality spectrum set aside by the U.S. government specifically for FirstNet. This rugged vehicle antenna-modem solution tightly couples essential LTE radio components to meet the most demanding needs of public safety and fleet vehicles.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200507005959/en/(Graphic: Business Wire)\n\nBy integrating an HPUE modem within an antenna assembly, AC-HPUE ensures transmission of the maximum allowable radiated power directly to the LTE antenna elements. AirgainConnect’s patented technology eliminates the signal loss over coax cables that run from mobile routers mounted in vehicle compartments to roof-mounted antennas, which combined with HPUE capability provides up to ten times the transmit power at the antenna when compared to the router’s conventional modem and antenna. The result is a dramatic increase in the coverage area and higher data rates.\n\n\nAirgain has partnered with Assured Wireless Corporation to utilize the industry’s first FirstNet Ready™ certified Band 14 HPUE modem module in the AirgainConnect platform. FirstNet®, built with AT&T in a public-private partnership with the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) – the only nationwide, high-speed broadband communications platform dedicated to and purpose-built for America’s first responders and the extended public safety community – is bringing advanced capabilities to first responders across the country.\n\n\nBefore being certified and approved for use on FirstNet, devices are subject to hundreds of tests that cover many key capa...