SEQUANS INTRODUCES THE INDUSTRY’S FIRST MAC/PHY CHIP FOR MOBILE WIMAX BASE STATIONS
High performance, flexible solution supports manufacture of any size base station — femto, pico, micro, or multi-sector macro
CUPERTINO, Calif. and PARIS, France — Sept. 10, 2007 — SEQUANS Communications, leading WiMAX chip supplier, introduced its newest WiMAX chip, SQN2130, the industry’s first PHY and MAC ASIC optimized for Mobile WiMAX® base stations. The SQN2130 is WiMAX Forum™ Wave 2 ready, based on IEEE 802.16e-2005 standards, and delivers full 2X2 MIMO with industry-leading high throughput as a function of Sequans’ patent-pending technology, mimoMAX™. The release of the SQN2130 chip for base stations follows Sequans’ earlier release of the SQN1130 chip for subscriber stations. Sequans is the only Mobile WiMAX chipmaker today supplying both base station and subscriber station chips.
“The availability of the new base station chip together with our mobile station chip gives our customers exceptional benefits,” said Georges Karam, Sequans’ CEO. “Not only do we provide both ends of the link, assuring interoperability and giving valuable time-to-market and certification advantages, but we also provide the highest chip performance at both ends of the link, supporting the manufacture of the industry’s most advanced Mobile WiMAX systems and devices.”
The SQN2130’s feature rich, low cost, low power design enables the manufacture of any size base station—femto, pico, micro, or multi-sector macro—in TDD or FDD duplexing mode with no compromise in feature functionality, even at the low end. In addition to advanced MIMO, the SQN2130 supports hybrid-ARQ Category 4. The SQN2130 can sustain the full line rate even with small packet sizes, translating to throughput of more than 35 Mbps, and can support several thousand subscriber stations.
The SQN2130 has already won several key customers. These include existing customers migrating from Sequans’ SQN2110 FPGA solution, and new soon-to-be-announced customers that include world-leading equipment manufacturers with global deployment plans. Sequans’ SQN2130 ecosystem partners include manufacturers of RFIC for femto base stations, OBSAI-compliant RF head for macro base stations, and ASN Gateway solutions.
About Sequans
SEQUANS Communications is a leading supplier of fixed and mobile WiMAX silicon and software based on 802.16 d/e standards. Offering base station and subscriber station system-on-chips (SOCs) for both fixed and mobile WiMAX (802.16-2004 and 802.16e-2005), Sequans offers equipment manufacturers an all-in-one solution with full MAC and PHY functionality, enabling them to build the complete range of WiMAX network components: high-end and pico base stations, outdoor and indoor subscriber terminals, home gateways, and all types of mobile devices. Sequans, along with its RF partners, provide the most complete WiMAX solution available to system manufacturers today. Please visit www.sequans.com
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