Redline Picks picoChip Modem For WiMAX Basestations

Oct 1, 2008 5:37 PM, MD&D News Staff

Redline Communications has selected the picoChip PC8532 modem to power its next-generation RedMAX 4C Mobile WiMAX basestations. The complete and robust reference designs from picoChip deliver true IO/MIMO with uplink collaborative spatial multiplexing (CSM), a critical feature of mobile WiMAX.

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The RedMAX 4C Mobile WiMAX platform is based on the WiMAX industry’s 802.16e-2005 standards for mobile WiMAX. It supports a wide range of fixed, portable, and mobile wireless services including voice and video over IP; broadband Internet access for high-value education, medical, transportation, and municipal applications; virtual private networks; and other advanced communications services.

According to Kevin Suitor, Redline’s vice president of marketing and business development, the robust, proven nature of the picoChip solution was key to Redline’s decision. “PicoChip has delivered a solution that we can trust to work effectively and reliably,” he said. “The ability to deliver a differentiated product which integrates our own IPR, coupled with the efficiency and scale of a commercial silicon solution, gives us the best of both worlds.”