Mindspeed and Sequans Deliver LTE Multiservice Gateway Solution
June 03 2013 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading
supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure
applications, and Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS),
an LTE chipmaker, today announced their successful collaboration in
delivering a fully integrated Category-4 LTE fixed wireless gateway
reference design for broadband access and other connected home
services. The solution combines the industry-leading capabilities
of an LTE baseband chip from Sequans and the Comcerto® 2000
communications processor from Mindspeed.
“LTE in fixed mode has been an important element of many
countries’ universal broadband plans, as a more flexible
alternative to DSL which can also support mobility," said Caroline
Gabriel, research director at Maravedis-Rethink. "However, we are
also seeing some carriers looking to replace ageing DSL networks
with LTE, where a fiber upgrade would be impractical or too
expensive. Reference designs will be important to reduce cost and
time-to-market for this valuable carrier option.”
By partnering to offer a pre-integrated and pre-certified Cat-4
solution which combines Sequans' LTE SQN3120 baseband chip and
Mindspeed®'s Comcerto 2000 communications processor, the two
companies jointly enable equipment and device manufacturers to
efficiently address the fixed wireless gateway market for home and
small business users.
With dual 1.2GHz ARM Cortex™-A9 processors, the carrier-grade
Comcerto 2000 solution supports voice-over LTE (VoLTE) and IP
multimedia subsystem (IMS) frameworks. The products use intelligent
offloading engines that enable Gigabit class networking to run
concurrently with the Cat-4 LTE link, while leaving plenty of CPU
headroom for user applications such as JVM/OSGI bundles. Comcerto
2000 LTE routers easily support simultaneous 2Gbps IPv6 NAT
routing, firewall, IPSec and 1.2Gbps Wi-Fi.
“Mindspeed has a strong market presence in fiber-to-the-home
(FTTH) applications and their Comcerto 2000 chip combines perfectly
with our LTE chipset to deliver a high-performance, feature-rich
solution,” said Craig Miller, vice president, worldwide marketing,
Sequans. “We enable carriers to offer residential and small
business users multiple rich services, including internet access,
video streaming, and VoLTE, over the LTE network.”
Sequans’ SQN3120 Mont Blanc LTE baseband chip provides the LTE
connectivity in the joint solution. The SQN3120 is Verizon Wireless
certified and is 3GPP Release 9 and GCF compliant. It is one of the
few LTE chips in the industry capable of delivering full Category-4
LTE throughput of up to 150 Mbps. It supports both Time Division
Duplex (TDD) and Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) modes. The chip is
one of Sequans’ StreamrichLTE solutions for the design of
high-performance, feature-rich LTE devices. In addition to
delivering Category-4 LTE throughput, SQN3120 supports gigabit
Ethernet and provides Sequans AIR (active interference rejection)
technology, a powerful interference mitigation algorithm that has
been shown to increase throughput up to 3.5 times for users at the
cell edge and to increase network capacity up to 2 times.
"Sequans and Mindspeed’s LTE gateway solution provides a
compelling alternative to DSL or fiber,” said Laurent Hendrichs,
senior product line manager at Mindspeed. "With the 150 Mbps
download speeds enabled by Sequans’ LTE technology, our joint
reference design offers an effective alternative to wireline
broadband wherever wireline access is unavailable or where VDSL or
FTTH are too expensive to deploy."
A live demo showcasing the integrated solution delivering
150/50Mbps throughput, concurrent 2Gbps speed networking, up to
6000 DMIPS available for Wi-Fi 11ac, OSGI, JVM or Android will be
presented by Mindspeed in booth D0719 at Computex Taipei
from June 4-8, 2013 at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taipei,
Taiwan.
About Mindspeed Technologies
Mindspeed Technologies (NASDAQ: MSPD) is a leading provider of
network infrastructure semiconductor solutions to the
communications industry. The company's low-power system-on-chip
(SoC) products are helping to drive video, voice and data
applications in worldwide fiber-optic networks and enable advanced
processing for 3G and long-term evolution (LTE) mobile networks.
The company's high-performance analog products are used in a
variety of optical, enterprise, industrial and video transport
systems. Mindspeed's products are sold to original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) around the globe.
To learn more, please visit www.mindspeed.com. Company news and
updates are also posted at www.twitter.com/mindspeed.
About Sequans Communications
Sequans Communications is a 4G chipmaker, supplying LTE and
WiMAX chips to equipment manufacturers for mobile operators
worldwide. Founded in 2003 to address the WiMAX market, the company
expanded in early 2009 to address the LTE market. Sequans chips are
inside 4G networks around the world. Sequans is based in Paris,
France, with additional offices throughout the world, including
United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore,
Taiwan, South Korea and China. Please visit our website
(www.sequans.com) or follow us on Twitter.
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