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Fujitsu and Hopling Technologies to Ship Linux WiMAX Board
Packages
Original Design
Manufacturers are First to Utilize Innovative and Open Support
Packages;
Case Study of
Hopling Technologies’ Unique Mesh Architecture Now Available
Sunnyvale,
Calif., USA, Langen, Germany and Almere, the Netherlands,
January 17, 2007 –
Fujitsu Microelectronics America,
Inc. (FMA), Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME), and Hopling
Technologies announced today that they will ship their
jointly-produced Linux-based WiMAX baseband system-on-chip (SoC)
reference kits to ODM customers.
Hopling Technologies and Fujitsu announced in September 2006 (see
a related press release announced on September 6, 2006)
that they would collaborate on a Linux-based Hopling
Board
Support Package designed to make it easier for equipment
manufacturers to add innovative applications to the
standards-based Fujitsu solution. The reference kit, which
includes a reference board
utilizing the highly integrated
MB87M3550 WiMAX SoC,
software package and operating
manual, will be available from Fujitsu in 1Q-2007.
“This reference kit very effectively leverages Hopling
Technologies’ software and Fujitsu's SoC,” stated Manfred
Mettendorff, U.S. based senior marketing manager for Fujitsu
Microelectronics Europe. “Fujitsu is the first company to
address the growing need for embedding WiMAX baseband SoC into
our customers’ Linux-based wireless equipment. We believe this
will spur development worldwide and decrease time-to-market for
our customers’ products.”
“Hopling
Technologies is deeply committed helping businesses across the
world realize the benefit and full potential of WiMAX," said Ivo
van Ling, Chief Technology Officer of Hopling Technologies.
"This joint Linux project with Fujitsu is an extremely important
project and it's a milestone in
Hopling Technologies’ WiMAX product strategy that will allow
companies to roll out seamless broadband wireless systems.”
“The shipping of the Linux WiMAX Board Packages is a successful
outcome of the expanded relationship of Hopling Technologies and
Fujitsu,” stated Rudger van Brenk, who was recently appointed
Director Research and added to the Leadership Team of Hopling
Technologies.
“Together, we have managed to
develop a product that is
state-of-the-art and future-proof
for companies wishing to launch their own WiMAX product-line.”
Additional information about the topology and applications
served by Hopling Technologies Wireless Broadband Access
solutions, and its direction on fixed and mobile WiMAX
architectures, can be found in the newly-published Hopling
Technologies Case Study, available at:
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/edevices/microelectronics/broadbandwireless/case/
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