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SEQUANS (News - Alert) Communications will supply Alvarion with its new Mobile WiMAX base station chips. Alvarion (News - Alert) will use the chips to build pico base stations and implement its additional unique technology and advanced features above the 802.16e standard.

Avinoam Barak, president of Alvarion’s broadband wireless access division believes that Sequans’ ability to provide both ends of the link gives their company advantages in time to market and certification.

Barak said that Sequans’ solution is the most complete, offering both PHY and MAC, flexibility for use in various licensed and unlicensed frequency bands and channel sizes, and software that can be adapted to meet their particular needs.

“We are pleased to have our technology selected by the WiMAX market leader Alvarion,” said Georges Karam, Sequans’ CEO in a statement.

“We are positive that Alvarion’s open WiMAX (News - Alert) ecosystem and strategy will have a powerful impact on the worldwide rollout of WiMAX,” he added.

Sequans explains that their SQN2130 chip is the industry’s first ASIC optimized for Mobile WiMAX base stations. This highly integrated MAC and PHY baseband chip provides high performance, scalability, and flexibility to support any size or configuration of base station without compromising on features.

The SQN2130 chip supports TDD and FDD and delivers high throughput to serve tens of thousands of subscriber stations, delivering the full line rate even with small packet sizes. As the solution boasts unique combination of low-cost and low power consumption, it is particularly suitable for femtocell or pico base stations. Additionally, the SQN2130 chip is 802.16e Wave 2-ready, and supports standard interfaces to ASN gateways for easy integration into existing deployed networks.

SEQUANS Communications is a supplier of fixed and mobile WiMAX for base stations and subscriber stations, based on IEEE 802.16-2004 and 802.16e-2005 standards.

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Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet, covering call centers, CRM and information technology. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

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