picoChip’s PC960x LTE femtocell wins Best Enabling Product/Technology Award at LTE Awards

Developed in conjunction with Continuous Computing and Cavium Networks, the PC960x enables OEMs to move ahead with small cell LTE development immediately. Delivering full evaluation and prototyping capabilities, this accelerates time to market for small form factor LTE products (“Home eNode B”) optimized for metropolitan, enterprise and residential applications. This dramatically changes the economics of LTE deployments - reducing capex, opex and accelerating time to market for operators.

“The judges of this award appreciated how important small cell technologies are in the roll-out of LTE. The PC960x is the first product that enables OEMs to develop small cell products optimized for this vital market,” said Rupert Baines, VP of Marketing at picoChip. “Many analyst reports, including recent work from Rethink Wireless and Signals Research, point out that LTE requires a dense network of small cells optimized for high-capacity data services to deliver on its full potential. The PC960x is the first product explicitly designed to enable this ‘metrozone’ architecture.”

The Informa LTE Awards took place at the LTE World Summit at the Okura Hotel in Amsterdam. Entries were examined by an independent panel of judges, against criteria including the product's contribution to making LTE more attractive to an operator to deploy and differentiation from other products on the market.