Date: 24/09/2010

picoChip and Cambridge Consultants collaborate in enhancing LTE Femtocell platform

picoChip and Cambridge Consultants are partnering to optimize PC960x LTE development platform for 'small cell' basestation architectures.

Cambridge Consultants and picoChip have also previously worked together to deliver wireless infrastructure solutions for standards-based products, for proprietary technologies as well as military and defence customers, examples include Iridium Communications Inc's satellite system.

"As the femtocell market heats up our customers are turning to us to provide platforms that help them get to market faster with ever greater degrees of differentiation. Cambridge Consultants has been invaluable to us in enabling us to offer a range of extra features and capabilities based on our core technology," said David Maidment, Director of Product Management at picoChip.

"For this latest collaboration we knew that, with a broadband wireless technology as demanding as LTE, and with very high market expectation, we required a partner that we could truly rely on. We had full confidence that Cambridge Consultants could deliver exactly what we needed, when we needed it, to expand the capabilities of our LTE offering in what were very demanding timescales. Their ability to work closely with us and their approach to development ensured that we got the quality that our customers expect."

"The enhancements picoChip was targeting represented a significant engineering challenge for both companies," commented Tim Fowler, Commercial Director in Cambridge Consultants' wireless division. "However, we have been working with picoChip and their devices for many years now and our experience of their platform, combined with our rigorous development process, meant that we were able to help picoChip quickly and efficiently achieve their targets."