UK-based picoChip and Wavesat have announced the signing of a MoU to conduct end-to-end LTE interoperability testing. The initial focus of this forthcoming cooperation is to demonstrate over the air interoperability between picoChip eNodeB and Wavesat UE with both TDD and FDD modes of operation on a range of E-UTRA bands.
In addition to interoperability testing, Wavesat and picoChip will engage in joint market development activities and customer engagements and plan to deploy their combined solutions in customer LTE trials, with an estimated start date of 3Q 2010.
"We are enthused to be working with Wavesat in this way. At picoChip we firmly believe that LTE will be a disruptive technology, offering new opportunities for network operators and for OEMs. That inevitably means we must support interoperability testing with UE technology partners such as Wavesat, in order to supply 'ready to ship' eNodeB," said picoChip's LTE Product Manager Paul Neil.
"Wavesat and picoChip have a long history of collaboration around 4G wireless technology," stated Anil Barot, VP of Marketing & Business Development at Wavesat. "We believe our common experience with IP-based network technologies, now including LTE, and our respective focus on base station and UE baseband chipsets, will allow our mutual customers to deploy with a high degree of confidence."
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