SoCs for residential, enterprise and outdoor small cell networks

The devices build on the success of Broadcom's residential and enterprise small cell products, which have been deployed in more than two million small cells to date.

The enhanced portfolio delivers data rates up to 300Mbps, providing the highest quality of service for smartphone and tablet users seeking better Internet connections, uninterrupted streaming video and improved call coverage, while helping operators effectively manage spectrum assets. Broadcom's complete small cell platform also includes support for WiFi offload, which complements small cell technologies to further assist operators in managing growing mobile traffic, through Broadcom's dual-band concurrent 802.11n and 801.11ac WiFi technologies.

Broadcom's BCM61735 is optimised for low cost and bill-of-material, lowest power and small footprint required by residential CPE markets. When combined with Broadcom WiFi, DSL, cable and PON residential gateway products, the BCM61735 provides a complete multi-radio access technology (RAT) residential solution. Broadcom's BCM61755 and BCM61765 provide advanced enterprise and venue features, including RF digital front end (DFE), multi-core processors, increased user count, range and mobility and carrier aggregation, along with carrier WiFi and Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) compliance.

The BCM61735, BCM61755 and BCM71765 enable carriers and operators to deliver improved connectivity for their enterprise and metropolitan subscribers by optimising spectrum efficiency for an overall increase in network capacity, improved coverage and higher data rates. Broadcom's BCM617x5 small cell series also ensure connectivity for all mobile network access modes (3G, 4G/LTE and WiFi) and configuration bands (licensed and unlicensed). New support for 20+20MHz carrier aggregation, which makes more efficient use of available but often fragmented spectrum, is included in the BCM71765 to address the wider transmission requirements of LTE networks.

Greg Fischer, Vice President and General Manager, Broadband Carrier Access, Broadcom, comments: "Our new generation of residential and triple-mode enterprise baseband processors for small cells provides global carriers with a powerful solution as 3G technology matures and global operators prepare to transition to 4G/LTE mobile networks. Building on more than two million field deployments of our small cell technology, Broadcom's BCM617x5 SoCs allow carriers to meet consumer demand for a consistently high quality, high performance mobile experience."

Broadcom's BCM61735 for residential small cells, BCM61755 for enterprise small cells and BCM61765 for high capacity/outdoor metrocells are currently sampling.