LTE gateway reference design based on Mindspeed and Sequans' chips

Mindspeed Technologies and Sequans Communications S.A. have collaborated to deliver fully integrated Category-4 LTE fixed wireless gateway reference design for broadband access and other connected home services. The solution feature LTE baseband chip from Sequans and the Comcerto 2000 communications processor from Mindspeed. "LTE in fixed mode has been an important element of many countries' universal broadband plans, as a more flexible alternative to DSL which can also support mobility," said Caroline Gabriel, research director at Maravedis-Rethink. "However, we are also seeing some carriers looking to replace ageing DSL networks with LTE, where a fiber upgrade would be impractical or too expensive. Reference designs will be important to reduce cost and time-to-market for this valuable carrier option." With dual 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processors, the carrier-grade Comcerto 2000 solution supports voice-over LTE (VoLTE) and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) frameworks. The products use intelligent offloading engines that enable Gigabit class networking to run concurrently with the Cat-4 LTE link, while leaving plenty of CPU headroom for user applications such as JVM/OSGI bundles. Comcerto 2000 LTE routers easily support simultaneous 2Gbps IPv6 NAT routing, firewall, IPSec and 1.2Gbps Wi-Fi. "Mindspeed has a strong market presence in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) applications an...