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December 02, 2008
Texas Instruments Offers New Technology to Accelerate Femtocell Deployments
TMCnet Contributor Femtocell (News - Alert) deployments around the world are hampered by the lack of proven technology. According to market intelligence agency iSuppli, volume shipments for femtocells could begin in 2010, if the existing technical challenges are met.
Texas Instruments (TI), a company specializing in semiconductor technology, said that it is now providing the necessary tools required for the femtocell deployment with its new high-performance, volume-based digital signal processor (DSP) solution.
TI’s new technology is currently shipping into femtocell products from Samsung, Airvana, Huawei, Lyrtech, ZTE (News - Alert) and Airhop, the company said.
According to TI, the global femtocell market is diverse, so there is a demand for highly adaptable solutions. The advantage of TI’s DSP-based products is that they support all major second generation/ third generation (2G/3G) and fourth generation (4G) solutions including Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Wireless CDMA, Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX (News - Alert)) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE).
TI’s DSP-based products leverage TI’s installed base of wireless and wired infrastructure silicon and software. According to TI, about 90 percent of world’s operators have TI technology deployed in their networks, so the new technology promises successful femtocell trials and deployments on their network.
Jagdish Rebello, director and principal analyst with iSuppli, said, "The participation of a company like TI is needed to address cost models and deployment challenges facing the femtocell market. With its incumbent position in wireless infrastructure - across all air interfaces - they bring a tremendous amount of knowledge to this emerging market."
Among the companies that chose TI’s DSP include Airvana, a provider of mobile broadband network infrastructure systems and femtocells based on 3G CDMA 2000 Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) and Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS) mobile broadband technology.
"Airvana chose TI's DSP because it allowed us to implement both CDMA2000 1xRTT voice and data, and EV-DO broadband data on a single programmable chip," said Sanjeev Verma (News - Alert), VP of femtocell business and corporate development, and co-founder, Airvana, in a statement. "Having the flexibility to offer a broad and constantly growing feature set is a critical part of our strategy for this market."
DSP solutions are now being shipped to several other femtocell OEMS. TI is also working with leading femtocell software provider Continuous Computing to port their Trillium Femtocell Access Point (News - Alert) software stack to the TCI6484, the company said. This solution as a bundle enables OEMs to rapidly deploy carrier-class femtocell products. Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page. Edited by Stefania Viscusi WiMAX FEATURED WHITE PAPERSWiMAX FEATURED POD CASTWiMAX BLOGSApril 28, 2009
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