Beceem’s BCS200 WiMAX Wave
2 Chipset Sets Mobile WiMAX Speed Record Sustainable
Throughput Exceeds 33Mbps in live testing
with Major Infrastructure Provider
Santa Clara, CA ,
June 20, 2007 – Beceem Communications
(www.beceem.com), a leading provider of
chipsets for Mobile WiMAX technology, today
announced that the company has successfully
performed rate 2 MIMO demonstrations exceeding
an aggregate Downlink and Uplink throughput
of 33Mbps. This performance was achieved
at the Application Layer using Beceem’s
BCS200 wave 2 chipset and the infrastructure
of a leading carrier-class OEM.
“Mobile operators are seeing data
ARPU contribute to the top-line growth of
revenue based on an increasing demand for
mobile broadband connectivity, the delivery
of audio / video, MMS and gaming,” said
David Patterson, vice president of Marketing
for Beceem. “The BCS200’s ability
to exceed 33 Mbps throughput highlights the
advantages of Beceem’s WiMAX solutions
to enhance these existing services by bringing
a ubiquitous, DSL-like experience to a wide
range of products such as WiMAX CPEs, Express
cards, USB dongles, laptop PCs, mobile phones
and other consumer electronics devices.”
Beceem’s BSC200 solution provides
significant performance improvements that
meet the launch requirements of WiMAX service
providers focused on Wave 2. The BCS200 solution
consists of:
- The BCSB200 baseband chip and associated
firmware implements Physical Layer (PHY)
and Media Access Control (MAC) functionality
with minimum processing load for the host
processor.
- The BCSR200 direct conversion CMOS radio
supporting 2 GHz and 3 GHz designs, as
well as dynamically programmable channel
bandwidths from 5 MHz to 10 MHz thereby
enabling seamless roaming among all WiMAX
networks.
- A complete reference design kit including
driver software and RF calibration tools,
facilitates rapid development of Mobile
WiMAX devices by OEMs and ODMs.
BCS200 chipset samples and reference design
kits are immediately available. For more
information, please visit www.beceem.com.
About Beceem Communications
Beceem Communications Inc. is the leading
provider of semiconductor solutions for the
mobile broadband market, and the first with
commercially available terminal chipsets
for Wave 1 and Wave 2 profiles of the WiMAX
Forum, that are based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005
standard. For more information, please visit
the company’s website at www.beceem.com. |