Beceem Communications First to
Release Chipset for The Newly Approved
IEEE 802.16E Mobile Broadband Standard
Company is first to release terminal chipset
for commercial production and establishes
technology and product leadership in the
emerging Mobile WiMAX market
San Jose, CA, Jan. 18, 2006 -
Beceem Communications (www.beceem.com), a
leading provider of chipsets for the mobile
broadband market today announced that it
has just released the world's first terminal
chipset implementing a feature set based
entirely on the new IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX
standard. In so doing Beceem is the first
to demonstrate and make available a commercial
Mobile WiMAX/WiBro chipset solution that
is suitable for mobile, portable and fixed
applications.
Beceem's MS120 Mobile WiMAX
terminal solution contains:
- A digital baseband chip that includes
the entire Physical Layer (PHY) and Media
Access Control (MAC) functionality. An
embedded RISC processor implements the
MAC functionality thereby minimizing processing
load on the host processor.
- An integrated radio chip (RF) designed
for multi-band operation containing multiple
transmit/receive chains thereby minimizing
cost, foot print and power consumption
for Mobile WiMAX implementations.
- A complete reference design kit for the "WiMAX
Modem" including host driver software and
RF calibration tools which will enable
terminal OEMs and ODMs to quickly produce
WiMAX compliant devices.
"We are proud to announce the commercial
availability of our first Mobile WiMAX chipset
today. Our scalable chip architecture together
with our efficient algorithms enables a highly
cost-effective and power-efficient digital
baseband implementation for WiMAX" says Babu
Mandava, President and Co-founder of Beceem. "In
addition, we developed a radio chip that
is perfectly matched to meet the stringent
demands of an OFDMA airlink.. This gives
our chipset an additional performance and
cost advantage over other chipset solutions
that are pieced together from multiple vendor
products."
- The MS120 chipset is designed to operate
in the challenging low signal to noise
environments prevalent in hand-offs and
the edge of wireless networks. Therefore,
Beceem believes that its MS120 Mobile WiMAX/WiBro
chipset will:
- Set the benchmark for Mobile WiMAX chipsets
due to its high performance, small footprint,
power efficiency and time-to-market leadership.
- Accelerate the market for Mobile WiMAX
by making available high-throughput terminals
that significantly outperform 3G based
solutions.
- Enable the rapid emergence of the terminal
ecosystem for Mobile WiMAX due to the completeness
and simplicity of the MS120 reference design
kit.
The MS120 chipset has been sampled to lead
customers and reference design kits are immediately
available upon request.
About Beceem Communications Inc.
Beceem
Communications Inc. was founded in October
2003 with the goal of building a wireless
technology company offering semiconductor
solutions for the wireless broadband market.
Beceem is the leading supplier of chipsets
for the recently ratified, IEEE 802.16e standard
on which Mobile WiMAX is based. The company's
solutions target both base station and subscriber
terminal applications. Beceem combines an
experienced management team with strong technology
leadership and seasoned Silicon Valley investors,
along with a world class team of engineers.
For more information, visit www.beceem.com.
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