Sequans: World's First WiMAX Forum Certified Base Station

February 7, 2006

Rich Tehrani sent me a WiMAX press release eariler today, so I thought I would share the news. Sesquans announced the "world's first" WiMAX Forum certified base station and subscriber station reference designs. Sequans is the first silicon provider to offer a complete end-to-end certified chipset solution.

Full release is below:

SEQUANS Communications, a fabless semiconductor company and leading supplier of WiMAX silicon and software for broadband wireless access, today announced that the company�s Subscriber Station and Base Station reference designs, based respectively on its SQN1010 and SQN2010 SoC�s, and S-Cube software solution, have achieved certification by the WiMAX Forum.

Sequans� SQN2010-RD base station reference design was certified by the WiMAX Forum last month and now Sequans� subscriber station reference design, the SQN1010-RD, has also received the Forum�s seal of approval. Sequans� products passed stringent and extensive testing, consisting of protocol conformance, radio conformance and interoperability testing, in order to obtain the WiMAX Forum Certification seal.

�We are delighted about SEQUANS Communications� achievement of certification for their reference designs based on their chipset,� said Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum. �Sequans was very supportive in the certification and plugfests processes, which is a testament to its industry commitment in developing high-performance standards-based silicon.�

Sequans� reference designs allow equipment manufacturers to quickly develop a wide range of products from high-end base stations to pico-base stations and from outdoor to feature-rich, indoor, self-install terminals and home gateways. Equipment manufacturers benefit from Sequans� unique implementation of mandatory and optional IEEE 802.16/ETSI HiperMAN features that together drastically improve cell coverage and throughput and enable low-latency support for real-time voice, video and data applications.

�Being among the first to achieve this certification and reaching that status in record time is a testimony of the know how of our team�, said Georges Karam, CEO and President, Sequans Communications.� �We will participate as well in IEEE 802.16e Mobile WIMAX certification and we are well on our way to repeat this performance.�

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