Pivotal Commware, global leader in 5G mmWave smart infrastructure products, announces the commercial launch of its Echo 5G Boost subscriber repeater for low emissivity glass (low-e) windows.
“That the low-e Boost is another first from Pivotal is made possible in no small part by our Holographic Beam Forming® technology, which confers lowest cost, size, weight, and power consumption (C-SWaP)”
Like its 2020 predecessor for standard glass, Echo 5G, Boost is a customer-installable, on-the-window, precision beamforming repeater designed to counteract mmWave penetration, reflection, and structural shadowing losses so it can gently flood an interior with mmWave signal.
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Unlike its predecessor or any other mmWave subscriber repeater, Boost can overcome 50 dB of low-e glass loss. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, more than 50% of U.S. window sales in the commercial market and 80% of the sales in the residential market incorporate low-e coatings. That’s good news for saving energy, but bad news for acquiring an adequate mmWave signal through window glass.
Pivotal field testing on low-e windows showed dramatic differences in indoor mmWave penetration. For example, Boost provided wall-to-wall Gigabit+ indoor coverage in a coffee shop surrounded by low-e windows. No indoor coverage was present without the Echo, but even the standard glass version struggled to penetrate beyond a few feet inside. The coffee shop’s own Wi-Fi network clocked in at 5 Mbps.
“That the low-e Boost is another first from Pivotal is made possible in no small part by our Holographic Beam Forming® technology, which confers lowest cost, size, weight, and power consumption (C-SWaP),” said Brian Deutsch, CEO of Pivotal Commware. “Powering through standard glass — and now low-e glass — from an indoor wall outlet ensures that subscribers can install all Echo products themselves in minutes.”
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