Sequans Communications has licensed unique LTE IP from Dorfour, a Tel Aviv-based fabless semiconductor company, to be incorporated into its recently-announced LTE development programme. Sequans, best known for its WiMAX technology, says that the Dorfour IP enables maximum likelihood performance at four times the efficiency in size and power consumption of currently available solutions. Sequans plans to demonstrate its first LTE solutions in early 2010, in support of pre-commercial operator trials.
Dorfour was founded by engineers from Texas Instruments and Alvarion founded Dorfour, and the team there has been working on LTE technology development for more than two years.
"Our cooperation with Dorfour accelerates our LTE development and supports the high performance and low cost development objectives we have for our LTE product line," said Georges Karam, CEO of Sequans. "Dorfour technology also supports both 2X2 and 4X2 transmission schemes."
"Sequans' leadership in semiconductor solutions is evident in their LTE development and we are pleased to contribute to it," said Amit Lubovsky, one of Dorfour's founders. "Dorfour's focus on high efficiency and low power consumption mirrors Sequans focus on the same, and our combined technologies will yield a powerful LTE solution."
