Artemis pCell technology was first showcased in a 2011 white paper as “DIDO” or “Distributed Input, Distributed Output” technology, with a 10 year commercialisation timeframe expected at the time. Now, in 2024, Artemis pCells are being rolled out, with two iconic New York locations showing just how powerful pCell technology is!
Artemis Networks, the creator of pCell technology, has partnered with Boldyn Networks in a Times Square proof of concept for pCell.
The test delivered 700 Mbps in just 20 MHz of 3.5 GHz spectrum to 128 phones simultaneously—that is over 10 times the data capacity of the fastest 5G technology in the same amount of spectrum.
The Artemis pCell vRAN consists of 6 cell-free radiohead sites connected through 10 km of fibre to 3 1U servers in a Boldyn edge data center. It took Boldyn less than 1 hour to install each Artemis radiohead site, including connectivity to Boldyn’s NYC fiber backbone network.
Alongside Times Square, Boldyn also showcased an Artemis pCell proof of concept in a subway station, one of the busiest in New York.
Additionally, Boldyn has previously tested Artemis pCell in a 27,000-seat stadium, achieving over 1 Gbps in just 20 MHz.
“Boldyn Networks is bringing together a strengthened portfolio of advanced technology assets and capabilities to reimagine the connected future of the NYC metro area,” said Christos Karmis, CEO of Boldyn’s US business.
“Testing new technology such as Artemis pCell in high-density urban, subway and venue settings helps us realize that vision and our commitment to the area.”
Smartphone demand for mobile data in high-density urban, subway and venue settings continues to grow as 4K video streaming, videoconferencing, and livestreaming become commonplace. Also, new head-wearables give a glimpse of a future that will require fast, consistent, low-latency data for thousands of densely-packed users at once. Artemis pCell delivers consistent, ultra-fast data rates at low latency to any density of users, seamlessly compatible with existing 4G and 5G devices.
“Artemis is delighted to partner with Boldyn to showcase pCell testing in dense urban settings like Times Square, both at street level and in the subway,” said Steve Perlman, Artemis CEO.
“Smartphone users today expect 4K streaming to always work, even in the highest-density scenarios, and as streaming head-wearables like Ray-Ban|Meta smart glasses and Apple Vision Pro AR headsets increasingly become mainstream, mobile data demand will skyrocket. The Times Square proof of concept confirms that pCell delivers on both today’s and tomorrow’s dense urban mobile needs, and all at a fraction of the conventional cost of 5G infrastructure.”
See the Artemis Times Square Proof of Concept videos and case study here. Those videos are also embedded above for reference, as is a 2022 video interview I conducted with Steve Perlman.
For those attending MWC 2024 in Barcelone, Boldyn Networks will be in attendance!
For those wanting to know more, Artemis Networks is the creator of pCell technology. Artemis was founded by technology pioneer Steve Perlman in the early 2000s and has been incubated for over a decade by his Rearden Companies incubator. As Perlman notes at his LinkedIn page, he is “an entrepreneur and inventor devoted to pioneering Internet, entertainment, multimedia, consumer electronics, and communications technologies and services. I have 35 years of technology development experience in multiple startups and as a Microsoft Division President and Apple Principal Scientist.” More about Perlman can be read here.
Over 150 academic papers have been written about pCell technology and pCell is backed by over 350 issued and allowed patents worldwide.
Steve Perlman will be one of my two special guests on this week’s Talking Tech with Alex Zaharov-Reutt show on TNTRadio.Live, with the show airing live each Saturday, 6 to 7pm AEDT, and which is repeated on the station and available to watch on demand here.
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Here is my video interview from my iTWire article with the remarkable Steve Perlman from 2022:
Here is a video showcasing how pCell technology works:
Here is the pCell video showing how it works in the SAP Center in San Jose:
