SEQUANS WINS BEST CHIP DESIGN AWARD FROM WIMAX WORLD USA
CHICAGO — Live from WiMAX World USA 2007 — September 27, 2007 — xchange magazine announced today that Sequans Communications has been named winner of the Best of WiMAX World USA 2007 Award for Chip Design. Sequans won for its SQN1130 Mobile WiMAX subscriber station chip that delivers industry-leading high throughput with low power consumption and superior receiver sensitivity.
“We are very pleased to win the best chip design award and we congratulate all the winners and runners-up, especially our customers, Airspan, Redline, Telsima, WiNetworks, and ZyXel,” said Georges Karam, Sequans CEO. “It is thrilling to see our chips in more and more WiMAX systems, devices, and networks around the world and we are grateful to have our technology recognized by the WiMAX community. Thank you to xchange magazine, Trendsmedia, and all the distinguished judges.”
Sequans received its best chip design award last night at a ceremony following the close of the WiMAX World expo floor. Eliot Weinman, conference co-chair and president of Trendsmedia, the events and publishing division of Yankee Group that produces WiMAX World, along with Paula Bernier, editor in chief, and Tara Seals, associate editor, of xchange, presented the awards in seven categories. Sequans and their award will be featured in the November issue of xchange, as well as on the WiMAX World and xchange Web sites.
Sequans’ award-winning SQN1130 chip delivers throughput of greater than 30 Mbps on a single terminal with power consumption of less than 280 mW. This extraordinary performance is a function of Sequans’ mimoMAX™ technology, based on a unique, patent-pending Sequans algorithm. mimoMAX combines a true maximum likelihood (ML) MIMO decoder on the downlink, enabling highest performance and lowest power consumption, with two transmitters on the uplink, enabling MIMO on the uplink for additional link budget improvement. The SQN1130 also delivers superior receiver sensitivity, up to 13 dB higher than what is required by the Mobile WiMAX profile, for larger cell coverage and better in-building penetration.
Sequans and the other WiMAX World award winners were selected by an independent panel of judges, including Craig Mathias, principal, Farpoint Group; Will Strauss, principal analyst, Forward Concepts; Adlane Fellah, CEO and founder, Maravedis Inc.; Caroline Gabriel, lead research analyst, Rethink Research; Philip Marshall, vice president of enabling technologies, Yankee Group; James Farstadt, founder and president, rClient LLC; Michael Khalilian, chairman and president, IMS Forum; and representatives from xchange and Trendsmedia.
For a complete list of winners, visit www.xchangemag.com/wimaxusa2007.
About Sequans
SEQUANS Communications is a leading supplier of subscriber station and base station chips for both fixed and mobile WiMAX, based on IEEE 802.16-2004 and 802.16e-2005 standards, Sequans offers equipment manufacturers an all-in-one solution with full MAC and PHY functionality, enabling them to build a wide range of high performing WiMAX network components: femto, pico, micro and multi-sector macro base stations, outdoor and indoor subscriber terminals, home gateways, and all types of mobile devices. www.sequans.com
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