After having acquired Summit Electronics in June this year, cellular baseband market leader, Qualcomm has acquired cellular base station and high-speed wireless backhaul infrastructure SoC and software vendor, DesignArt Networks. The size of the deal has not been disclosed
CALIFORNIA, USA: After having acquired Summit Electronics in June this year, cellular baseband market leader, Qualcomm has acquired cellular base station and high-speed wireless backhaul infrastructure SoC and software vendor, DesignArt Networks. The size of the deal has not been disclosed.
DesignArt Networks is based in Ra'anana, Israel and it offers SoC and software products that enable the design of indoor and outdoor small cell base stations and remote radio heads. Inorder to reduce the cost of outdoor small cell deployments, DesignArt's technology also offers integrated line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight wireless backhaul.
"DesignArt and its products will both enhance and accelerate our initiatives to drive increased capacity and coverage in mobile networks. Operators can significantly improve user experience across residential, enterprise and outdoor networks given the greater network efficiencies derived by implementing small cells and heterogeneous networks,'' said Craig Barratt, president of Qualcomm Atheros.
Qualcomm has expanded its existing portfolio of small cell base station technologies and complementary Wi-Fi, Ethernet and passive optical networking (PON) connectivity solutions by adding the DesignArt LTE and backhaul solutions.
As per the company, this acquisition will help Qualcomm to integrate small cell and Wi-Fi technologies with various wireless and wireline backhaul options to support the proliferation of indoor and outdoor small cells that provide coverage and capacity exactly where it is needed.
