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February 22, 2010

Motorola's 4G WiMAX Infrastructure to Power Upcoming 4G Chip from Beceem

By Divya Narain
TMCnet Contributor

Santa Clara, Calif.- based provider of 4G chips Beceem Communications has announced a partnership with Motorola (News - Alert) to integrate Motorola's advanced 4G WiMAX infrastructure with Beceem's upcoming BCS500 4G chip.
 
The BCS500 4G chip supports WiMAX (News - Alert) 16e and 16m as well as UE Class 4 LTE capabilities in both the TDD and FDD configurations, including plans for handoff between WiMAX and LTE. Many operators with disparate spectrum holdings are expected to benefit from optimization of TDD and FDD coexistence for LTE. Beceem's (News - Alert) BCS500 4G chip will be the first to achieve the distinction of supporting TDD and FDD flavors for LTE with future plans for LTE-to-WiMAX roaming.
 
'The know-how gained during the development and deployment of our leading 4G WiMAX solution has contributed to our work with Beceem to offer this advanced chipset solution,' Bruce Brda, senior vice president, Motorola enterprise mobility solutions and networks business, said 'We look forward to the opportunities provided by this capability to address market demand.'
 
'Our 4G-WiMAX chips are powering every device in Clearwire's (News - Alert) network, and we would not have been able to achieve this level of performance and market success without our collaboration with Motorola,' Babu Mandava, CEO of Beceem Communications (News - Alert), said. 'We are pleased to enter the 4G-LTE market later this year with our new BCS500 4G-LTE/WiMAX chip that will become the performance benchmark of the 4G industry.'
 
Beceem Communications has been providing mobile WiMAX semiconductors with proven over-the-air data speeds exceeding 30 Mbps. Beceem's products are WiMAX certified, XOHM qualified and are validated against the WiMAX base stations from all major OEMs. In another article, TMCnet reported that Beceem has integrated the Comcerto 100 broadband gateway processor from Mindspeed in its BCS5200 customer premise equipment chip for residential, small office/home office, SMB and enterprise applications.

Divya Narain is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Divya’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Amy Tierney


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