UbiNetics was a 3G wireless technology company based in Cambridge

Cambridge

The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

, UK, with offices in Japan, Hongkong, India (Bangalore) and China. They had a second development center within UK at Swindon. The company had gone through three different acquisitions; WCDMA Silicon on chip group acquired by Analog Devices

Analog Devices

Analog Devices, Inc. , known as ADI, is an American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion and signal conditioning technology, headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts...

 (ADI), Test and Measurement equipment group, which produced UMTS

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System is a third generation mobile cellular technology for networks based on the GSM standard. Developed by the 3GPP , UMTS is a component of the International Telecommunications Union IMT-2000 standard set and compares with the CDMA2000 standard set for...

/HSDPA

High-Speed Downlink Packet Access

High-Speed Downlink Packet Access is an enhanced 3G mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access family, also dubbed 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity...

 test mobiles to Aeroflex

Aeroflex

Aeroflex Inc. is an American company which produces and markets RF and microwave integrated circuits, components, and systems used for wireless communications. Aeroflex consists of Aeroflex Microelectronic Solutions , a fabless manufacturer of rad-hard and hi-rel semiconductor devices and...

 and the rest of R&D by Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR Plc) in Cambridge in 2005. The name UbiNetics stood for Ubiquitous Networks. The company was initially formed as a spin off from PA Consulting with several engineers, PhD and post graduates from University of Southampton

University of Southampton

The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...

and other universities in Europe.