Sequans Communications, which supplies LTE and WiMAX chips to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers, and Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced partnership for a large scale trial of Time Division – Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) in Shenzhen.
The trial will be conducted on China Mobile's TD-LTE network deployed by Huawei, using devices based on Sequans' TD-LTE chipset. Company officials say this is a significant milestone in the commercialization progress of TD-LTE.
Huawei is one of the leading equipment vendors selected for the TD-LTE trial networks in six major cities in China. Huawei has been selected for the city of Shenzhen. The company will build and deploy Shenzhen's TD-LTE network.
Sequans recently became eligible to participate in the China Mobile trials when its LTE chip technology won official approval from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) after passing a battery of tests, company officials said.
"We are very pleased to continue our long and successful cooperation with Huawei," said Georges Karam, Sequans CEO, in a statement. "Working side by side with Huawei on interoperability over the last two years, we now have UE chipset technology that is fully ready to support the important large scale trials of China Mobile as well as future commercial deployments."
Both Sequans and Huawei have been long-term partners and have conducted several successful demonstrations of their TD-LTE solutions in collaboration with China Mobile, including the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai and at the Asian Games in Guangzhou. Huawei will use TD-LTE USB dongles based on Sequans' SQN3010 TD-LTE chip.
Earlier in May Sequans Communications announced that it has selected communication test equipment, Aeroflex 7100 LTE Digital Radio Test Set.
Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for MobilityTechzone. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
Rich Steeves 
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