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News Release from: Wintegra | Subject: WinHDP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 October 2006
WiMAX development platform packages new
MAC
Wintegra has announced two significant milestones in its expanding WiMAX product offering.
Wintegra has announced two significant milestones in its expanding WiMAX product offering These include the introduction of a complete fixed and mobile 802.16e upper and lower MAC with integrated network interface and transport functions, and the announcement that the 802.16e basestation development platform, WinHDP, is now shipping to customers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Both the MAC and the platform were successfully deployed in the WiMAX Forum "Plugfest" event held in Frederick, Maryland in September.
The Wintegra WinHDP development platform has been shipped to numerous WiMAX customers worldwide including customers in North America, Europe, Israel, Japan and Taiwan.
The basestation development platform provides direct connectivity between the Wintegra MAC and picoChip PHY, and state-of-the-art RF and antenna subsystems, which together create a demonstrable WiMAX basestation that has successfully interoperated with multiple CPE solutions.
Fully tested software and vendor independent APIs are available for rapid system integration of these components, as well as optional licensing of tools and source code for OEMs to customise and differentiate their systems.
This platform is modular and scalable, and is capable of supporting any size basestation from picocell, to multisector, multiprotocol macro basestation designs.
WinHDP gives OEMs the capability to realise the benefits of reduced time to market as well as field upgradeability.
Key features of the WinHDP basestation platform include: lower and upper MAC from Wintegra; WiMAX PHY from picoChip; interface for AAS/MIMO antenna; and flexible software-defined baseband silicon from picoChip.
The Wintegra 802.16e MAC is a full featured and fully programmable lower and upper MAC implementation that supports both mobile and fixed WiMAX operation.
Key features include: FDD and TDD mode support; point-to-multipoint topology; multiple-zone support; support for 512 subscribers; numerous queues per connection; and enhanced statistics support.
The MAC is highly modular and flexible, allowing rapid adaptation to standards changes as well as integration of proprietary customer modules and features.
The code is fully integrated with Wintegra production quality wireless data path software packages.
All of this MAC software can run on the WinHDP and is shipping to customers worldwide.
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