WiMAX chipset supports WiMAX Wave 2 profiles

UMobile family of WiMAX chipsets support Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 profiles for high performance and low power consumption

Wavesat's UMobile family of WiMAX chipsets support all the features of Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 profiles in a cost-effective, flexible and highly programmable architecture.

The first chipset in the UMobile family, codenamed Panther, has a highly cost efficient and ultra-low-power-consuming system on a chip (SoC), supporting the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standards for WiMAX mobile networks.

Wavesat Panther chipset implements all MAC and PHY features required for Wave 2 WiMAX certification in a single chip, and includes advanced MIMO and beam-forming technologies.

Panther's advantages include: very high performance and fully programmable PHY and MAC solution, including smart antenna features such as MIMO 2x2; lowest cost solution and footprint in the industry with on-chip DRAM in a 9x9mm package (no external memory required), allowing very easy integration into small form-factor applications; very low power consumption at 150mW in receive mode by using ultra-low-power DSP technology and enhanced power saving modes; and highly programmable architecture supporting multimode operation including ODFMA / OFDM / and legacy 802.11a and g.

"Wavesat maintains its leadership in WiMAX chipsets and solutions with the announcement of its UMobile product strategy for 802.16e WiMAX", says Michel Guay, President and CEO, Wavesat".

"Our deep understanding of the WiMAX marketing and customers' needs has translated into a unique and cost-effective architecture, offering a mix of flexibility and performance allowing our customers to very easily integrate our UMobile chipsets into their WiMAX solutions".

Adlane Fellah, CEO and Founder of Maravedis commented "We predict that there will be an accumulated 87 million broadband Wireless Access subscribers (excluding cellular) by the end of 2012, 67 million of which will be WiMAX subscribers".

"WiMAX will represent 90% of subscribers who are added in 2012, of whom 75% will be using 802.16-2005 technology".

"WiMAX chipsets will start to be embedded into laptops in 2008, into handheld devices in the beginning of 2009, and into consumer electronics in the beginning of 2010-2011".

"In this context, Wavesat who has been a pioneer in the development of WIMAX SOCs is well positioned to tap into this future competitive WIMAX mobile market".

Wavesat is conducting detailed IOT testing with prototype Panther units, and commercial samples will be available in Q4/07.

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