HONG KONG, Dec. 2, 2006 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- In a move that continues its leadership in Mobile WiMAX, Beceem Communications (www.beceem.com) today announced the immediate availability of the industry's first baseband and RF chipset that supports all features of the Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 Profile. The BCS200 chipset, which includes advanced smart antenna technologies such as MIMO and beamforming plus Beceem's CMOS direct conversion radio, continues to set the industry standard for performance.
The BCS200 solution provides significant performance improvements that positions Beceem as the leading company to meet the launch requirements of WiMAX service providers focused on Wave 2, such as Sprint Nextel. Key performance benchmarks over MS120 solution include:
* Greater than 25 Mbps total throughput
* More than 25% reduction in active power consumption
* Greater than 60% footprint reduction enabling WiMAX
integration into space constraint applications such as
mobile phones and consumer electronics
"Beceem was first to release a Wave 1 chipset and we are continuing our leadership in Mobile WiMAX with the introduction of BCS200 chipset as the first Wave 2 solution" said David Patterson, Vice President of Marketing at Beceem. "By enabling our customers to deliver commercial devices with MIMO capability in the 2nd half of 2007, our BCS200 captures the 'sweet spot' of the Mobile WiMAX market."
The BCS200 solution builds on Beceem's field-proven MS120 Wave 1 chipset and software that has been used successfully in early Mobile WiMAX trials and commercial deployments around the world. As a result, customers will benefit from Beceem's unmatched WiMAX experience, thereby significantly reducing their own development risk, cost and time-to-market when launching Mobile WiMAX products.
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 wireless broadband market, and the first with commercially available terminal chipsets for the IEEE 802.16-2005 Mobile WiMAX standard. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.beceem.com.
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