Icera Announces Espresso(TM) Cellular WWAN Minicard Platform

Icera Announces Espresso(TM) Cellular WWAN Minicard Platform

February 12, 2007

* Full multimode support for 3GPP release 5: GSM, GPRS,
EDGE, WCDMA
  and HSDPA
* The highest performance HSDPA available today - 3.6Mbps
scalable
  to 7.2Mbps
* Full Multi-Band support plus Multi-Band Receive
Diversity
* Based on Icera Livanto(R) ICE8020 wireless soft modem IC
* Adaptive Wireless(TM) soft modem technology

    -- Fully supports 3GPP Type 3 advanced receiver
    -- Highest performance in real network conditions

* Ready-for-Manufacture, industry standard, PCIe Mini-card
form
  factor reference design 
* Full software, firmware and certification supported
* Future proof - HSUPA ready with no hardware change

    
    BRISTOL, England, Feb. 12 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Icera
Inc. has today announced availability of its Espresso(TM)
Cellular WWAN PCI express Mini-card platform, which
supports the next generation of broadband cellular
integration to laptop PCs.  The platform fully supports
3GPP Release 5 multimode HSDPA/EDGE which delivers peak
data-rates of 3.6Mbps and is fully scalable to 7.2Mbps and
HSUPA -- without hardware change. 

    Nigel Toon, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at
Icera said: "Icera is focusing on the fast emerging
cellular data market and is providing the world's first
optimised Cellular WWAN Mini-card reference platform.  This
platform will enable our customers to fully support the next
generation of laptop broadband cellular WWAN requirements. 
Icera technology is today delivering the highest HSDPA
performance in real network deployments with a throughput
advantage of up to 2x." 
 
    Toon continued: "We are targeting this reference
design at datacard OEM's to support them in producing
embedded Cellular WWAN modules.  We have worked closely
with cellular carriers, laptop chipset vendors and laptop
OEM's to provide a comprehensive ready for manufacture
solution, while the reference design can also be used as
the basis for Express Card | 34 and small sized USB Stick
Broadband Cellular peripheral devices."

    Built around the Icera Livanto(R) ICE8020 device and
the Icera Adaptive Wireless(TM) HSDPA/EDGE wireless soft
modem solution, the Espresso(TM) platform delivers the
highest performance in multimode 2G / 3G networks. 
Espresso(TM) supports a full EDGE Class 12 capability and
is unique in the industry today in offering full support
for 3GPP-defined Type 3 advanced receiver technology which
supports an optimised Receive Diversity in combination with
dual Equalization for the highest throughput in real network
situations. 

    The Icera solution today supports the higher HSDPA
categories, including 7.2Mbps, and is set to be one of the
first solutions to offer enhanced uplink data rates with
HSUPA.  Icera's advantage is that these are software
deliverables and require no hardware changes to implement.
  
    Featuring an optimised bill-of-materials and a complete
ready-for-manufacture solution, with full software, firmware
and certification support, the Icera Espresso(TM) Cellular
WWAN Mini-card platform is set to reshape the cost and ease
the integration of cellular broadband in laptop devices. 

    About Icera Inc:

    Icera is the leader in wireless soft modem devices and
supports mobile terminal and datacard OEMs with the highest
performance HSDPA through a range of platform solutions. 
Founded in 2002, Icera is headquartered in the UK, with
design locations in the UK and France and sales offices in
Europe, Japan and USA and representative support in Korea. 
For more information, visit the Icera web site at
http://www.icerasemi.com .

    Photography available on request.


    For more information, please contact: 

     Sally Doherty
     Icera Inc.
     Tel:    [phone]
     Email:  [e-mail] 


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