Mindspeed Leads the Small Cell Charge at Mobile World Congress 2012 in “Bar – small cell – ona”
March 06 2012 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), the industry
leader in technology for small cell base stations, has announced
new customers and demonstrations, unveiled the world’s first
long-term evolution (LTE) femtocell, was the only company to
demonstrate working small cell time-division (TD)-LTE and frequency
division duplexing LTE (FDD-LTE) solutions, and showcased 39
different commercial small cell products at the recently-concluded
Mobile World Congress 2012 event in Barcelona, Spain.
“This has been yet another fantastic show for us, and one where
we’ve made many key announcements,” said Raouf Y. Halim, chief
executive officer at Mindspeed. “Mobile World Congress was also
Mindspeed’s first public appearance after our acquisition of
Picochip, and we’ve been able to show just how much of a lead we
now have in the small cell space. Small cells are now playing an
essential role in many of the world’s biggest networks, and
Mindspeed’s technology makes it possible.”
At the show Mindspeed announced:
- A study showing that Barcelona will
need 40,000 small cells by 2015 in order to deliver genuinely
world-class, ubiquitous LTE mobile broadband service. The research
was carried out by Dr. Doug Pulley, Mindspeed’s chief technology
officer for wireless and customer premises equipment (CPE).
- A collaboration with JUNI to jointly
develop LTE femtocells and other small cell dual-mode 3G/LTE
solutions.
- An announcement from Korea
Telecom (KT) that it has selected Mindspeed®’s Transcede®
System-on-Chip (SoC) baseband processors for its LTE small cell
development. The collaboration supports the carrier’s migration to
dual mode (LTE and 3G)
- A demonstration with Hong Kong Applied
Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) of the
industry's first commercial-grade, production-ready TD-LTE small
cell reference design. There was also a demonstration of a tier one
customer’s TD-LTE small cell base station using Mindspeed’s
Transcede SoC baseband processor.
- A co-operation with Contela,
Inc. to jointly develop advanced LTE femtocells and other
small cell dual mode 3G/LTE solutions.
- A demonstration with Radisys
Corporation (NASDAQ: RSYS), of LTE base station advances –
specifically, a commercially-available eNodeB small cell reference
design based on a single SoC.
- An announcement from TEKTELIC
Communications that the company has launched what it claims is the
industry’s smallest fully integrated micro eNodeB, which was
developed using Mindspeed technology and software from the Aricent
Group.
“Once again, we’ve shown off more customer products and more
real-world deployments for infrastructure than any competitor,”
said Rupert Baines, vice president of marketing at Mindspeed. “Last
year we saw a lot of operators and vendors start seriously talking
about small cells; this year has been all about demonstrating real
products, with small cells using our technology even providing
coverage for Mobile World Congress attendees at the Fira Montjuïc
exhibition center.
“We have built on our industry lead in LTE, with more than two
dozen customer engagements, commercial products from JUNI, Contela,
Tektelic and more – and now real deployments with KT and others.
Finally, we were the only company to demonstrate operational LTE
FDD and TD-LTE small cells, another area in which Mindspeed is
setting the pace for the industry.”
At the show Mindspeed exhibited:
- 39 unique femtocells and small cells,
including those in commercial service with service providers from
around the world for HSPA, LTE and TD-SCDMA.
- Real-world ecosystem participation
from Mindspeed collaborators.
- Six different TD-synchronous code
division multiple access (SCDMA) femtocells and picocells for the
Chinese market.
- HSPA and LTE picocell-class products
for enterprise, metro and rural markets, with power levels ranging
from 250mW to 2 x 5W.
- Seven different LTE small cells,
including designs from KT, JUNI and Tektelic.
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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