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News Release from: Wavesat | Subject: 5.8GHz Mini-PCI design
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 31 May 2007
Design to accelerate WiMAX adoption
A 5.8GHz Mini-PCI reference design is optimised to allow equipment manufacturers worldwide to rapidly bring WiMAX equipment to market.
Wavesat's 5.8GHz Mini-PCI design is optimised to allow equipment manufacturers worldwide to rapidly bring WiMAX equipment to market The reference design in the form of an extended length Mini-PCI card facilitates system designs by providing a plug-and-play complete solution for the lower layer air interface and time critical low-level MAC functionality
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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It allows equipment manufacturers to tailor the motherboard providing the higher layer application processor and peripherals according to their specific needs, hence providing greater flexibility and reducing development efforts.
The 5.8GHz Mini-PCI design is a development platform supporting ODMs efforts to design WiMAX-compliant wireless devices for the 5.8GHz unlicensed band using Wavesat's Evolutive WiMAX DM256 chip.
Based on the WiMAX Forum profile, the 5.8GHz Mini-PCI design greatly simplifies the overall WiMAX CPE design, enabling customers to bring WiMAX solutions to market faster and more cost-efficiently, while allowing for flexibility to address further changes driven by the WiMAX emerging market dynamics, application diversity and customer profiles.
"Wavesat's WiMAX Mini-PCI reference designs offer OEMs and ODMs the unique opportunity to quickly develop a low BOM subscriber unit with minimum NRE investment and risk by using existing broadband CPE platforms", says Vijay Dube, VP Marketing and Business Development for Wavesat.
"Because 5.8GHz is an unlicensed frequency band, it can be rapidly deployed by wireless Internet service providers (WiSPs) around the world and especially in North America, where it is the only WiMAX Forum profile currently deployable".
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Wavesat provides a full-range of standards-based integrated circuits, software, and development platforms supporting IEEE802.16-2004 and 802.16e-2005 standards.
Featuring the industry's only WiMAX Mini-PCI card and chosen by ODMs and OEMs worldwide, Wavesat's WiMAX portfolio provides effective wireless connectivity for a wide range of network sises and coverage from urban to rural applications.
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