Thank you for meeting us at MWC

It was a pleasure to meet with you and your colleagues at Mobile World Congress 2010.  picoChip had a bigger presence than ever at the event.

With 13 operators now committed to commercial femtocell launches, Barcelona's Mobile World Congress 2010 proved to be a hotbed of femto news and discussion.

We were very proud to feature a "FemtoWall" on our Stand, showing 15 commercial product designs from just some of our 20 picoXcell™ customers. These included stand-alone residential femtocells, integrated home gateways with femto, WiFi and DSL and enterprise femtocells.

You can see a video summary of our activities at MWC '10 by clicking here

We had a lot of news, with six announcements, as well as demonstrating our established eight-user HSPA+ femtocell solution and interoperability via Iuh with partners CCPU and Starent Networks (now Cisco).

We look forward to continuing our conversations.  If you would like to arange a follow-up, please contact me and I would be delighted to coordinate this.

See picoChip at forthcoming events

You may also be interested in meeting with us at one of the forthcoming events:                       

CTIA Wireless, Las Vegas - 23-25 March 2010
NGN Basestations Conference, Bath - 19-21 April 2010
LTE World Summit, Amsterdam - 18-19 May 2010
Femtocells World Summit, London - 22-24 June 2010

For further information, please visit our website Events page. We welcome the opportunity to meet with you again soon.

picoChip, Cavium and CCPU demonstrate LTE femto

Continuous Computing, picoChip and Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM) have collaborated to produce the world’s first complete Long Term Evolution (LTE) femtocell reference design. Demonstrated live at MWC '10, the reference design is the industry’s first to include the LTE modem (PHY), radio frequency (RF) and packet processors, protocol software, intelligent router functionality and a complete Evolved Packet Core (EPC) simulator.

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...or view our MWC '10 round-up video, featuring live footage of the PC960x in action

New chips serve up to 24 users, rates up to 42Mbps

At MWC '10 picoChip unveiled new products that allow its customers and partners to address the complete range of femtocell requirements via a single design platform. The introduction of two new picoXcell system-on-chip (SoC) devices and supporting software creates the industry’s most complete family of femtocell solutions.

The new PC313 and PC323 chips are complete single-chip HSPA+ femtocell SoCs for eight or 24 users respectively, with data rates of up to 42Mbit/s.

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Sagemcom selects Ikanos and picoChip

Sagemcom unveiled its BroadW@ve 4704 single-box femtocell/xDSL gateway at MWC '10. Combining Ikanos’ advanced A/VDSL Fusiv communications processor and picoChip’s robust PC302 picoXcell baseband system-on-chip (SoC), the BroadW@ve 4704 is currently in field trials with several leading service providers.

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AirHop and CCPU demo advanced self-organizing system

AirHop Communications and Continuous Computing have announced a small-cell reference design, based on picoChip’s picoXcell HSPA+ platform, which helps automate deployment and optimize performance in small-cell networks.

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Show news...

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ELECTRONIQUE | picoChip lance une solution complète pour les femtostations de base HSPA+

EETimes | Teardown: falling costs to make femtocells soar

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