WiMax PCI Cards. "This is the first mini-WiMax PCI cards design and it will acceleratethe design and deployment of WiMax CPE [customer premises equipment]." Dube expects Asian ODMs to quickly ramp up the volume of WiMax CPE and drive costs down.

Mini-PCI Card Kit
As two startups fighting to be heard above the big WiMax guns of Intel and Fujitsu, Sequans Communications and Wavesat Inc. will separately announce a chip set and a mini-PCI card reference kit designed to accelerate WiMax development and deployment. The announcements come a week after the two vendors commenced WiMax certification testing.

"The market is at a stage now where it can go to high volume," said Vijay Dube, vice president of business development at Wavesat (Dorval, Quebec). "This is the first mini-WiMax PCI cards design and it will accelerate the design and deployment of WiMax CPE [customer premises equipment]." Dube expects Asian ODMs to quickly ramp up the volume of WiMax CPE and drive costs down.

The reference kit marries Wavesat's DM256 baseband chip with an RF Magic front end for 3.5-GHz operation. The company will support the media-access control (MAC) layer in software. Wavesat is also working with SiGe Semiconductor for an RF front end. The kit will support both time-division duplex and half-frequency-division duplex operation.

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