Bath-based picoChip is collaborating with Wavesat to bring a 4G LTE mobile network to market.
The two companies have signed an agreemnt to conduct end-to-end LTE interoperability testing.
They said that LTE network operators and system manufacturers will "benefit from the availability of the combined, tested technologies".
“At picoChip we firmly believe that LTE will be a disruptive technology, offering new opportunities for network operators and for OEMs,” said picoChip’s LTE product manager Paul Neil.
"That inevitably means we must support interoperability testing with UE technology partners such as Wavesat, in order to supply ‘ready to ship’," said That inevitably means we must support interoperability testing with UE technology partners such as Wavesat, in order to supply ‘ready to ship’ chipsets," said Neil.
Canada-based Wavesat has an LTE UE reference design commercially available.
The initial focus of this forthcoming cooperation is to demonstrate over the air interoperability between picoChip eNodeB and Wavesat UE with both TDD and FDD modes of operation on a range of E-UTRA bands.
The aim is to deploy the combined systems in customer LTE trials, with an estimated start date of 3Q 2010.