Sequans Communications (Booth 104), a fabless semiconductor company and supplier of silicon and software for broadband wireless access, is unveiling a new mobility strategy.
Sequans’ WiMAX mobility products are designed to be compliant with WiBRO and the first system profile to be released by the WiMAX Forum before the end of 2005. The company’s products are flexible and can be upgraded as 802.16e evolves following ratification.
The ratification of the IEEE 802.16e standard is imminent, and with the capabilities and potential of mobile WiMAX, “most wireless telecommunications equipment manufacturers and consumer devices manufacturers are eager to develop WiMAX base stations, phones, PDAs, multimedia players or laptops,” explains Bernard Aboussouan, vice president of marketing and business development, Sequans. “With our product rollout, manufacturers will have the necessary components, hardware and software, to begin development today and be first to market.”
Sequans’ initial mobile WiMAX products will include:
• the SQN1110, a small, low-power subscriber station system on a chip suitable for mobile devices
• the SQN2110, a field-programmable gate-array chip set for base stations
• S-cube, which is Sequans’ software
The products address the needs of equipment manufacturers designing mobile products as well as vendors planning to use IEEE 802.16e for fixed and nomadic applications.
Sequans’ rollout schedule will allow equipment manufacturers to launch mobile WiMAX base stations and mobile devices as early as the second half of 2006. Sequans’ customers can start development today, using Sequans’ software simulation environment.
Field-programmable gate-array development kits will be available later this year, prior to the release of the system-on-a-chip and field-programmable gate-array product set.
