According to Airspan Networks, its MacroMAX base station for the 3.5 GHz FDD profile has received WiMAX Forum certification. The MacroMAX is powered by picoChip's software-upgradable architecture. In addition, the manufacturer expects to achieve similar certified status for its HiperMAX and MicroMAX-SDR base station models this year. All three products can support 256 OFDM and SOFDMA PHYs. Airspan is the first vendor to complete certification of an end-to-end WiMAX system for the mainstream 3.5 GHz FDD market, the maker said.

“picoChip is proud to be involved in this significant WiMAX milestone,” said Guillaume d'Eyssautier, president and CEO of picoChip.

Jeremy Rowe, vice president of engineering at Airspan, added, “The picoChip reference design helped us accelerate our development, and delivers the strategic advantage of a software-upgradable architecture. This allows us to easily add features, and to support 16d and 16e from the same product.”

picoChip has also been selected by CETECOM to supply reference designs for the MINT T2230 protocol conformance tester for Mobile WiMAX testing. The CETECOM system is being used by the WiMAX Forum for certification and ‘plugfest’ interoperability testing for 16e.

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