Picochip and Wavesat have successfully completed interoperability testing (IOT) between Picochip’s PC960x Long-Term Evolution (LTE) small-cell basestation solution and Wavesat’s Odyssey 9000 family of user equipment (UE) chipsets. According to the companies, completing this series of LTE service and IOT milestones represents success in their jointly stated aim of delivering full performance with end-to-end interoperability.

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“Open interoperability is key to the success of any cellular technology,” said Peter Jarich, service director with Current Analysis. “To be sure, interoperability usually develops over time. Here, the fact that semiconductor reference designs are of a maturity and quality to support end-to-end system test, verification, and IOT is an encouraging sign for the pace of LTE development and likely to accelerate to maturation of the market.”

The first Wavesat Odyssey 9000 chipsets feature CAT-3 performance (100 Mbits/s downlink, 50 Mbits/s uplink) for user equipment such as USB dongles, data cards, mobile handsets, and tablets and mobile Internet devices (MIDs). They were tested with Picochip’s PC9608 and PC9609 small-cell basestation development platform developed jointly with Continuous Computing, connecting to both network test and commercial Evolved Packet Core (EPC) gateway products.

Last March, the companies announced a memorandum of understanding concerning end-to-end LTE interoperability testing for their products. The companies believe the agreement will assist LTE network operators, systems integrators, and OEM/ODM system manufacturers, who stand to benefit from the availability of the combined, tested technologies as fully conformant and ready-to-ship eNodeB reference designs.

Picochip and Wavesat have successfully completed interoperability testing between Picochip’s PC960x LTE small-cell basestation solution (a) and Wavesat’s Odyssey 9000 family of user equipment chipsets (b).
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“The Picochip Home eNodeB reference platform is in integration testing with leading infrastructure vendors and network operators, and showing end-to-end IOT with both core and commercial UE bodes well for next year,” said David Maidment, vice president of product management at Picochip.

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