BARCELONA, Spain and BANGALORE, India, February 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Comprehensive suite of software includes advanced features and optimization for SoC implementations

Tata Elxsi, the global provider of solutions and services for 4G broadband wireless, announced the availability of a comprehensive LTE Small cell software suite, enabling rapid development of small cells including low-cost LTE Home eNodeB, enterprise femtocells and picocells.

Tata Elxsi's LTE Smallcell software suite enables SoC based implementations including L1, L2/L3 and radio integration. The protocol stack for L2/L3 is specially designed for Small cell functionality and has several improvements and optimization to suit System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture requirements.

The protocol stack includes a highly optimized air resource scheduler and a SON framework that supports ANR, Closed Subscriber Group, Mobility Load Balancing and ICIC essential for Femto cell management and improved radio performance. It also enables support for advanced features such as LIPA, Hybrid Access and Inbound Mobility.

The software suite also includes a complete EMS framework for LTE small cells with SNMP and TR069 based management interfaces.

This is backed by a team of over 400 software and system engineers, which provides Tata Elxsi customers the unique ability to quickly implement the software across different silicon platforms with differentiated features and applications, enabling rapid product deployment and time-to-market while reducing costs and risk.

"We are pleased to offer customers a full-featured solution for small cells and a professional services team that can help them take it to market quickly," said Mr. Nitin Pai, Vice President - Marketing, Tata Elxsi. "Our engineering teams are also working with customers for specialized solutions to address spectrum management, data offloading and intelligent relays."

Tata Elxsi offers fully integrated reference designs for 3GPP Release 8/9 compliant LTE base stations on various silicon platforms comprising of L2/L3 and L1 integrated with Radio and tested with third party UEs and core network elements.

Tata Elxsi's 4G software portfolio now includes TDD and FDD software for LTE eNodeB, carrier-grade LTE UE protocol software, WiMAX 802.16e base station and mobile station reference designs.

About Tata Elxsi:

Tata Elxsi is a global innovation and technology services company that blends technology, creativity and engineering to help customers transform ideas into world-class products and solutions. With operations in US, Europe and Asia, Tata Elxsi is a strategic partner to the world's leading equipment makers and service providers.

A part of the $ 83 billion Tata group, Tata Elxsi addresses the communications, consumer products, defence, healthcare, media & entertainment, semiconductor and transportation sectors.  

Tata Elxsi leverages over 20 years of engineering expertise and services that span the entire communications ecosystem including system architecture, development and testing, product maintenance and test automation, for devices and infrastructure.

Tata Elxsi is a market leading third-party software IP provider for 3GPP LTE and Mobile WiMAX standards with 20+ design wins including 3 femtocell designs with Tier-1 OEMs.

Tata Elxsi is a listed company, and headquartered in Bangalore, India.

http://www.tataelxsi.com

SOURCE Tata Elxsi