Coming complete with baseband, RF chips, and reference designs, the SQN3220 is part of its Cassiopeia platform.
Supporting 3GPP Release 10 specifications, Cassiopeia is Sequans' third generation LTE platform solution, a member of its Streamrich LTE product family for high performance, feature-rich LTE devices.
It is compliant with 3GPP Release 10 specifications, delivering carrier aggregation of 40MHz total bandwidth. It supports both FDD and TDD duplexing methods and integrates a customer-programmable processor in a very small package.
The SQN3220 baseband chip is built in 40nm CMOS and is designed for the highest possible efficiency either as a standalone 4G LTE solution or alongside a 3G subsystem.
"With Cassiopeia, we have leveraged nearly a decade of 4G experience to develop an exceptionally powerful LTE-Advanced solution," said Georges Karam, Sequans CEO.
Added he, "The key feature is extremely flexible carrier aggregation, allowing combination of any two carriers of any size up to 20 MHz each, contiguous or non-contiguous, inter-band or intra-band, for an overall total of 40 MHz of bandwidth.”
Cassiopeia's unique implementation of carrier aggregation gives operators the ability to get the most value possible from their LTE spectrum—even the smallest slices."
Cassiopeia also supports other Release 10 enhancements such as new MIMO schemes, enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (eICIC) schemes for heterogeneous networks (HetNet), and improvements to eMBMS (evolved multimedia broadcast multicast service) or LTE Broadcast.
Sequans eMBMS technology supports multiple concurrent sessions for multicast traffic along with unicast traffic, on both TDD and FDD networks, and also provides a standardized interface to third party eMBMS middleware.