Picochip and Wavesat have successfully completed interoperability testing between Picochip’s PC960x LTE small cell basestation chipset and Wavesat’s Odyssey 9000 family of UE chipsets.
The two companies announced in March 2010 a memorandum of understanding concerning end-to-end LTE interoperability testing for their products.
The aim of the collaboration is to offer LTE network operators, systems integrators and OEM/ODM system manufacturers conformant / ready-to-ship eNodeB reference designs.
“Working with Wavesat has enabled out team to rapidly deliver a level of functionality and performance in excess even of our own expectations. The speed of integration was especially pleasing,” said David Maidment, v-p of product management at Picochip.
“The Picochip Home eNodeB reference platform is in integration testing with leading infrastructure vendors and network operators, and showing end-to-end interoperability test with both core and commercial UE bodes well for next year,” said Maidment.
The Odyssey 9000 chipsets feature CAT-3 performance (100Mbit/s downlink, 50Mbit/s uplink) for user equipment such as USB dongles, data cards, mobile handsets and tablets/MIDs.
“Our two companies are committed to broadening the LTE ecosystem with full featured femtocell, picocell and end user devices,” said Anil Barot, v-p of marketing and business development at Wavesat.
Femtocells are expected to be used in the roll-out of LTE 4G networks.
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