Mindspeed Demonstrates Small Cell Development Solution for LTE Networks
November 15 2011 - 5:02AM
Business Wire
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading
supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure
applications, today announced a demonstrable prototyping solution
that enables base station designers to efficiently productize
future small cell designs based on Mindspeed®’s award-winning
Transcede® family of wireless baseband processors.
“Mindspeed has demonstrated a single Transcede SoC-based LTE
small cell reference unit with complete IP to RF functionality and
connectivity using commercially-available user equipment,” said Dr.
Wang Jianquan, director of the Network Technology Research Center,
China Unicom Research Institute. “This solution, with integrated
processor hardware and software, will provide convenience for
network testing and deployment.”
Mindspeed offers its application-specific Transcede SoC devices
with production-ready, carrier-class software that can be adapted
directly into an original equipment manufacturer’s (OEMs) own
product design. This approach enables base station engineers to
efficiently build custom features on Mindspeed’s proven development
platform. The newest enhancement to Mindspeed’s Transcede offering,
the LTE small cell reference unit includes a fully integrated 20MHz
2x2 LTE radio, coupled with a GPS receiver for network
synchronization and location identification.
“The small cell revolution is a fundamental shift in network
design and planning that will put coverage and capacity closer to
the mobile subscriber by way of heterogeneous networks featuring
microcells, picocells, metrocells and femtocells,” said Dr. Huan-yu
Su, vice president of technical marketing and business development
at Mindspeed, who demonstrated Mindspeed’s LTE technology on a tour
of mobile network operators recently. “Our new small cell reference
unit allows service providers to quickly assess how small cells
powered by Mindspeed’s Transcede SoCs can deliver on the promise of
LTE mobile broadband.”
Industry analyst Mobile Experts LLC predicts that the number of
“alternative” cell shipments will overtake the number of macrocell
shipments for the first time during 2011. Mobile Experts also
suggests that multi-core processors will enable the growth of
carrier-grade small cells, with deployment of more than 19 million
enterprise and carrier small cells predicted in 2016.
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.
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