Multiple vs. Reconfigurable Radios

Multiple types of basestations due to multiple types of networks:

Radio may need to:

have the ability to be reprogrammed to become a new radio
- See for instance the basestations of Steinbrecher Corp. (Burlington, Mass, U.S.A.) MiniCell
  which implement a base station in a briefcase for US$100K.
  {The basestation is reprogrammed (via DSP) to handle different radios.}
- a mix of predefined modules with some portions programmable and programmable interconnects
be multiple radios - with the non-used radio powered up/down as necessary;
{There is a multiple personality radio project in the U.S. (DARPA?), Motorola is one of the partners.}