PARIS — Resulting from a collaborative work, French WiMax chip supplier Sequans Communications SA (La Defense, France) and Taiwanese telecom equipment provider Tecom Co. Ltd. have introduced a WiMAX product series that includes Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 base stations and subscriber stations using Sequans' chip solutions as the main design platform.
Tecom said it is using Sequans' SQN1130 mobile station chip, which is WiMAX Forum Wave 2-ready, including both PHY and MAC layers and 2X2 MIMO. Patent-pending mimoMAX enables the SQN1130 to deliver maximum likelihood MIMO performance with low power consumption, claims the French company.
Both parties specified they are demonstrating pico and femto base station units and end user devices, including a USB dongle, ExpressCard, desktop CPE (modem and access gateway/IAD) and PCMCIA card, at Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona.
