(iTers News) – Sequans Communications S.A. has introduced  the newest member of its StreamliteLTE family of chipset solutions for the Internet of Things, or IoT. Called as Colibri LTE platform, the chipset solution comes complete with Sequans’ latest baseband and RF chips (SQN3221 and SQN3241), an integrated network and application CPU platform running Sequans’ carrier-proven LTE protocol stack, an IMS client, and a comprehensive software package for over-the-air device management and packet routing. 


The Colibri platform has been especially optimized for use in the M2M and IoT modules.


“In developing Colibri, our goal was to pack it with great IoT features while making it so cost-effective that it would immediately solidify the business cases for adding LTE to numerous new M2M and IoT devices,” said Georges Karam, Sequans CEO. “I’m proud to say we’ve reached our goal and Colibri offers the best price/performance in the industry, enabling 4G LTE modules to approach 2G price points.”


Colibri platform boasts an ultra low power consumption and compact form factor, the crucial features that IoT system designers are the most seeking after. Its wafer-level packaging technology helped the chip maker to cut its power budget and board footprint, allowiing it to integrate  both fo the baseband and RF chips together on a package level. This gives Colibri unique flexibility as a basis for many different types of IoT and M2M modules for applications in home security, automotive, healthcare, wearables, utilities, and more.  Also, Colibri’s integration of a network processor with an application CPU steered clear of  the need for—and the cost and complexity of—an external CPU.



It supports  3GPP Release 10, software upgradable to Release 11, while boasting a throughput of  up to category 4 (150 Mbps DL / 50 Mbps UL). It comes embedded with IMS VoLTE client and digital voice interface, It is OS-agnostic, supporting Linux, Android, ChromeOS, Windows, and MAC OS. It also includes Sequans AIR interference cancelation technology for superior cell-edge performance


“As growth of the IoT explodes and LTE continues its rapid spread around the world, the demand for LTE-enabled M2M and IoT devices is reaching new heights as device makers realize that to be future proof, their M2M and IoT devices must be LTE-enabled,” said Karam. “With Colibri, we have made it simple, quick, and very affordable to add LTE connectivity to almost any device for any application.”


Sequans expects modules based on the Colibri platform to be available from various module manufacturers beginning in Q3.


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