5.8 GHz WiMAX Mini-PCI Reference Design - Wavesat

Wavesat announced the immediate availability of its 5.8 GHz WiMAX Mini-PCI reference design, optimized to allow manufacturers to rapidly bring WiMAX equipment to market. Wavesat's WiMAX Mini-PCI reference designs offer OEMs and ODMs the opportunity to quickly develop a subscriber unit with minimum investment and risk by using existing broadband CPE platforms. Using the 5.8 GHz unlicensed frequency band, Wavesat's WiMAX Mini-PCI based products can be rapidly deployed by Wireless Internet Service Providers (WiSPs) around the world, especially in North America.

The WiMAX reference design in the form of an extended length Mini-PCI card facilitates system designs by providing a plug-and-play complete solution for the lower layer air interface and time critical low-level MAC functionality. This feature allows manufacturers to tailor the motherboard providing the higher layer application processor and peripherals according to their specific needs, hence providing greater flexibility and reducing development efforts.

The 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI design is a development platform supporting ODMs efforts to design WiMAX-compliant wireless devices for the 5.8 GHz unlicensed band using Wavesat's Evolutive WiMAX DM256 chip. Based on the WiMAX Forum profile, the 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI design greatly simplifies the overall WiMAX CPE design, enabling customers to bring WiMAX solutions to market faster and more cost-efficiently, while allowing for flexibility to address further changes driven by the WiMAX emerging market dynamics, application diversity and customer profiles.

Wavesat's award-winning and WiMAX Forum Certified WiMAX products support both base stations and subscriber units for licensed and license-exempt radio frequencies. Wavesat provides a full-range of standards-based integrated circuits, software, and development platforms supporting IEEE 802.16-2004 and 802.16e-2005 standards.

Featuring the industry's only WiMAX Mini-PCI card and chosen by ODMs and OEMs worldwide, Wavesat's WiMAX portfolio provides effective wireless connectivity for a wide range of network sizes and coverage from urban to rural applications.

Wavesat provides solutions for each WiMAX market segment including:

• Fixed (access points, backhaul, DSL extensions) with 802.16-2004 OFDM Evolutive solutions
• Full mobility with 802.16e-2005 sOFDMA UMobile WiBro/WiMAX product family
• Nomadic & Portable (fixed system to include high-speed connectivity for laptop and portable applications) with 802.16d+ OFDM Evolutive products

Further reading: Wavesat - WiMAX Mini-PCI