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Leading femtocell company, picoChip, has announced that it has collaborated with Cambridge Consultants to enhance its PC960x LTE development platform. The enhancements have been designed to deliver optimisations to the PC960x platform for 'small cell' basestation architectures. picoChip has been a contributor to the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) on the deployment of LTE, working to improve the scalability and flexibility of dense deployments of small cells in LTE networks.
Cambridge Consultants and picoChip have previously worked together to deliver wireless infrastructure solutions for standards-based products, for proprietary technologies as well as military and defence customers.
LTE is the first cellular standard to achieve global acceptance and promises to deliver higher capacity and lower operational costs for network operators, helping them to continue to expand their mobile broadband services and reach more customers. Small cells are seen as an essential tool for mobile operators to deliver both capacity and coverage to users wherever they are.
“The enhancements picoChip was targeting represented a significant engineering challenge for both companies,” commented Tim Fowler, Commercial Director in Cambridge Consultants' wireless division. “However, we have been working with picoChip and their devices for many years now and our experience of their platform, combined with our rigorous development process, meant that we were able to help picoChip quickly and efficiently achieve their targets.”
The PC960x is the world’s first full hardware and software development platform for LTE femtocells, delivering quick and simple development and prototyping to customers and bringing together full evaluation and prototyping capabilities. The PC960x accelerates time to market of small form factor LTE products (“Home eNode B”) optimised for metropolitan, enterprise and residential applications.
