Aricent, a global innovation, technology and services company, focused exclusively on communications with offices in South Africa, announced last month that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), a global integrated media company, in conjunction with Crossfire Media, has named Aricent's Long Term Evolution (LTE) Software Suite and Frameworks as a recipient of the 2009 LTE Visionary Award presented by its 4GWE Web site.
Aricent's LTE practice offers equipment manufacturers comprehensive end-to-end solutions, including pre-packaged software and frameworks along with a comprehensive set of product life cycle services to develop feature-rich and differentiated products, while gaining significant time-to-market advantage at lower R&D costs.
The LTE pre-packaged software and frameworks span the entire spectrum from user equipment to access networks to the core, these include:
* LTE User Equipment Software Suite: Aricent's LTE UE Software Suite is a complete software package for device and semi-conductor vendors, including fully optimised Layer 1, Layer 2 protocol software with support for 100Mbps downlink and 50Mbps uplink data rates. The implementation ensures optimal power consumption, processor utilisation and easy integration on multiple hardware platforms.
* eNodeB Protocol Stacks and Framework: Aricent's existing eNodeB offering provides a turnkey solution for radio access, from pluggable stack software to pre-integrated and optimised software frameworks for radio access equipment that have been benchmarked on multiple industry leading hardware platforms. Aricent's eNodeB Framework (eNBF) serves as a robust software platform for infrastructure providers planning to develop a complete LTE Release 8+ compliant eNodeB of varying densities (macro/pico/femto).
* Evolved Packet Core Protocol Stacks and Framework: Aricent offers EPC protocol stacks as well as frameworks for the System Architecture Evolution (SAE) Gateway and the Mobility Management Entity (MME) Gateway. These include support for charging, QOS, high availability, lawful interception, and bearer-related features.
* IP Backhaul: Aricent's IP Backhaul solution is based on its industry-proven ISS Metro platform, which offers pre-integrated Layer 2 switching solutions and can be used to build LTE and IP backhaul devices such as IP RAN Aggregation devices, Internet Offload Gateways, and Metro Ethernet devices.
“We are honoured to be recogniaed by TMC and Crossfire Media for Aricent's innovation and technology advancements as the industry moves toward the deployment of 4G technologies,” said Keith Higgins, vice-president of worldwide marketing at Aricent. “This award further showcases Aricent's strategic role today as a trusted LTE technology and services partner to the world's leading telecommunications infrastructure developers.”
“Aricent's achievements in advancing 4G through LTE development is worthy of being selected as recipient of the 4GWE LTE Visionary Award,” said Carl Ford, co-founder and community developer, Crossfire Media. “Aricent is an innovator and one to watch for the next evolution of solutions.”
“It is an honour to bestow Aricent with this award. Their contribution toward the future of mobile broadband is commendable,” stated Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “I look forward to more innovation from Aricent in the future.”
The 2009 LTE Visionary Award winners are published in the October 4GWE e-newsletter and on the 4GWE Web site. For more information, please visit http://www.tmcnet.com.
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With corporate offices in Palo Alto, California and local offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town, Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications. Aricent combines the leading innovation capabilities of frog design with unparalleled domain expertise in communications as a strategic supplier to the world's foremost infrastructure, application and service providers. The company's investors include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, Sequoia Capital, The Family Office and Flextronics International. For more information, visit http://www.aricent.com.
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