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ZyXEL Adopts Sequans New Generation Chip for Mobile WiMAX Devices
Other Topics: Next Gen
Mobile WiMAX Chips,
LTE Remote Radio Head
Sequans
February 16, 2009
Mobile World Congress
Booth 2-1.C28
Barcelona, Spain -- Sequans Communications, the world’s leading WiMAX
chipmaker, announced today that ZyXEL, a world leading supplier of
broadband internet connectivity products, is using Sequans’ new
generation 65 nm Mobile WiMAX chip to build Mobile WiMAX end user
devices. Sequans’ new chip, the SQN1210, integrates baseband and triple
band RF in a single 65nm die, leading to unprecedented achievements in
size, cost, and performance. The first device ZyXEL is bringing to
market is a tiny USB device that will provide mobile laptop users with
WiMAX connectivity. |
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The SQN1210 demonstrates singular
performance capabilities. Based on state-of-the-art 65nm technology and
four years of Sequans proven field experience, it delivers the highest
level of integration yet achieved in a 10X10 package, resulting in
dramatically reduced cost, power consumption, and size. The SQN1210 does
not require external DRAM memory, and delivers maximum throughput of
greater than 40 Mbps with extremely low power consumption of less than
350 mW in active mode and less than 0.5 mW in standby. The integrated RF
covers all three global WiMAX bands, 2.3, 2.5, and 3.5 GHz and supports
both TDD and H-FDD. The SQN1210 also supports 2 Tx and uplink MIMO, a
feature unique to Sequans that can nearly double cell coverage.
"ZyXEL’s
WiMAX solutions always deliver the best benefit and performance to our
customers,” said Dr. Yuh-Long Chen, ZyXEL’s President. “Collaboration
with Sequans strengthens us to build the highest performing Mobile WiMAX
devices possible, devices that deliver very high performance with
minimal power consumption for truly mobile capability.”
The USB device ZyXEL has developed is a tiny and stylish USB dongle. It
supports user-friendly installation and clear LED Indicators to let
users surf the Internet easily. It is the first of several Mobile WiMAX
devices ZyXEL will bring to market using Sequans’ SQN1210.
This new collaboration between Sequans and ZyXEL follows their highly
successful collaboration on ZyXEL’s WiMAX Indoor Gateway MAX-206M2, for
Sprint’s (now Clearwire) Xohm™ network, announced last fall.
"ZyXEL
is an extremely innovative company and our collaboration with them has
yielded very exciting results,” said Georges Karam, Sequans CEO. “Their
designs, technology, and product quality are all superior, leading to
WiMAX devices of very high quality and performance, something both our
companies are keen on delivering.” |
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