Cohere Technologies is a
telecoms
Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of ...
software company based in
San Jose, California that develops technology for boosting the network performance of
4G and
5G spectrum in wireless networks. Cohere holds the patents for the
Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) 2D modulation technique used to improve the performance of 4G and 5G networks and is being considered as a waveform for the future
6G wireless standard.
History
Cohere Technologies was founded in 2011 by
Shlomo Rakib
Shlomo Rakib () is an Israeli electrical engineer known for his work on Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space (OTFS) and other engineering topics. He is the holder of several patents and co-founder and current Chief Technology Officer of Cohere T ...
, a serial entrepreneur, and
Ronny Hadani, an associate professor of mathematics at the
University of Texas, Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 20 ...
. The pair patented the
OTFS waveform in 2010.
Ray Dolan, co-founder of
Flarion Technologies (acquired by
Qualcomm
Qualcomm Incorporated () is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. It creates semiconductors, software and services related to wireless techn ...
in 2006), joined Cohere Technologies as the company's chairman and CEO in October 2018.
Cohere Technologies' first trials of OFTS with a carrier took place at
Telefónica
, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational telecommunications company with registered office and headquarters located in two different places, both in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the ...
in 2018.
In 2018, the company changed its focus to the use of Delay-Doppler-based channel detection, estimation and prediction, as well as precoding software to improve 4G and 5G wireless systems with its Universal Spectrum Multiplier software.
In 2020, Cohere Technologies won a
GSMA
The GSM Association (GSMA) is a Nonprofit organization, non-profit trade association that represents the interests of mobile network operators worldwide. More than 750 mobile operators are full GSMA members and a further 400 companies in the bro ...
GLOMO award for "Best Network Software Breakthrough," and was also shortlisted for the award in 2023.
In February 2023, Cohere announced a collaboration with telecommunications company
Mavenir
Mavenir Systems, Inc. is an American telecommunications software company, created in 2017 as a result of a three-way merger of existing companies and technologies, that develops and supplies Cloud native computing, cloud-native software to the ...
. Cohere will assist Mavenir in its transition to open RAN technology, including OTFS.
Cohere co-announced the Multi-G O-RAN initiative in April 2023 in collaboration with Intel, Juniper Networks, Mavenir and VMware.
The initiative will provide frameworks and interfaces to support the coexistence of 4G, 5G, and other waveforms in the future.
Carriers supporting the initiative include Vodafone, Telstra, and Bell Canada.
Cohere currently holds more than 300 patents relating to 4G, 5G, and OTFS.
Co-founder Shlomo Rakib currently serves as Cohere's CTO.
Products
Announced in 2021, Cohere's Universal Spectrum Multiplier (USM) software is designed to boost the performance of 4G and 5G FDD or TDD networks and can be integrated by network equipment suppliers in the radio access network (RAN) or as an xApp/RIC in the telco cloud. This technology has been tested by mobile operators such as Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, and Telstra.
Cohere also announced the Dynamic Network Alignment (DNA) tool in 2023, which is an automated MU-MIMO beamforming solution for calibrating 4G and 5G networks using existing network and spectrum assets.
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References
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Software companies of the United States