Broadcom Corporation has announced a scalable small cell development platform for multiple radio access technology (RAT). The platform integrates all the hardware and software components required to accelerate development and deployment time of small cell base stations.
The small cell development platform is designed to simultaneously support 3G, 4G LTE and Wi-Fi offload capabilities for greater than 200 users in response to the emerging trend toward high-capacity Multiple RAT networks. The platform’s design and hardware components allow OEMs to design small cell base stations optimized for a range of deployment options, while a pre-integrated software ecosystem enables OEMs to ensure faster time-to-market and lower design costs.
Eric Hayes, Broadcom Vice-President – Marketing, Processor and Wireless Infrastructure, said, “Our customers are looking for both cost-effective and capability-rich solutions. This platform demonstrates Broadcom’s ability to combine technology innovations from a number of areas to deliver a complete offering to the market that no other company can provide. Now customers can rapidly develop solutions to enable new revenue generating and performance enhancing services.”
The platform combines the XLP-208 multicore processor. It is now integrated with Broadcom’s industry-leading radio solutions. The software included in the platform enables features such as content caching, interference monitoring, self-organizing networks (SON), DPI-based services and security to be quickly deployed while maintaining line speed performance as operators and content service providers add new network services. Other solutions available on the development platform include Broadcom’s complete portfolio of backhaul devices for optimized traffic management, including x-DSL, x-PON and wireless.
This platform is currently sampling and is scheduled for volume production in Q2 2013.
