Broadcom Corp. bought a commercial license to use...
Broadcom Corp. bought a commercial license to use NextNav’s Metropolitan Beacon System (MBS) technology. The agreement enables Broadcom “to integrate NextNav’s advanced location technology into its mass-market global navigation satellite system (GNSS), connectivity and mobility platforms,” NextNav said in a…
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press release (http://bit.ly/1aLjzAi). MBS is a terrestrial constellation, which brings GNSS-like performance “to indoor and urban environments where satellite-based positioning is either unavailable or significantly degraded,” it said. Because the NetNav beacons are installed terrestrially instead of in space, there is significant signal strength to function indoors and in urban markets “where a clear view of the sky is unavailable,” it said.