Sequans and Celestica Release Integrated Baseband and RF Solution for Large Mobile WiMAX Base Stations

(Product News, 19 Sep 2007)

Sequans Communications and EMS provider Celestica have released an integrated Sequans/Celestica baseband/RF solution for manufacturers of high-end WiMAX base stations.

The solution integrates Sequans' new baseband Mobile WiMAX chip, the SQN2130, the first Mobile WiMAX base station MAC/PHY in the market, with Celestica's open base station architecture initiative (OBSAI)-compliant Remote Radio Head (RRH) solution accelerator platform—providing a total solution for manufacturers of large Mobile WiMAX base stations. OBSAI standards have been established to create an open market for cellular base stations.

"Celestica is recognized as an industry leader in implementing OBSAI and we are very pleased to jointly deliver this total solution for manufacturers of high-end Mobile WiMAX base stations," said Bernard Aboussouan, Sequans VP of Marketing and Business Development. "Infrastructure suppliers can now get to market quickly with a high power, high-end solution."

"We are very pleased to collaborate with Sequans to make this important Mobile WiMAX solution available," said Randy Clark, Director of Celestica's WiMAX Solutions Practice. "Our WiMAX Solution Accelerators are pre-engineered platform solutions that can be customized by companies in the fixed, nomadic, and mobile WiMAX market to shrink their design cycle and drive faster time-to-market. The combination of our Remote Radio Head solution accelerator with Sequans' new baseband technology provides an innovative solution, compliant with an established standard for base station interfaces."

Celestica's 2x2 MIMO RRH solution accelerators comprise the entire RF front end, including transceivers, power amplifiers and enclosure, with an OBSAI compliant interface. Sequans' SQN2130 chip is a full MAC and PHY baseband solution that is WiMAX Forum Wave 2-ready, based on IEEE 802.16e standards. It supports 2X2 MIMO (2 Rx and 2 Tx, Matrix A and B) and delivers high throughput as a function of Sequans' unique, patent-pending MIMO technology, mimoMAX. The feature rich, low-cost, low-power design of the SQN2130 enables the manufacture of any size base station—femto, pico, micro, or high-end macro—with no compromise in feature functionality.

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