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Tata Elxsi ties up with Cavium Networks

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Tata Elxsi Ltd, a Tata group company, which is into embedded product design, today announced its collaboration with Cavium Networks, a provider of integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, wireless, storage, video and security applications, offering LTE eNodeB solutions on the Cavium OCTEON Plus processor family.

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Tata Elxsi’s LTE eNodeB protocol stack provides two variants, for high capacity macro and micro base stations and low capacity pico and femtocells, said a press release. This combination of Tata Elxsi's LTE software stacks and Cavium’s OCTEON Plus multi-core processor family offers equipment vendors an optimized multi-variant solution which scales from femto to macro, it added.

Tata Elxsi said the LTE eNodeB solution encompasses components like PDCP, RLC, MAC, RRC, RRM and RoHC developed by Tata Elxsi, that are fully compliant with LTE 3GPP Release 8 specifications. The solution also implements an OAM interface layer for system configuration and monitoring purposes and it is designed with flexible SAP-based interfaces, allowing easy integration of third party components and product differentiator algorithms.

“Equipment manufacturers can enable early delivery of LTE products with this solution, as they can focus on productization, while we help in the solution building and integration” said Nitin Pai, vice president, Marketing, Tata Elxsi Ltd. “The key differentiator in our solution is our ability to offer flexible architectures scaling from femto to macro with dynamic load-balancing capabilities.

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He said the combination of a scalable and proven solution and a well established COTS hardware eco-system will provide customers with the benefits of reduced development costs and time-to-market.

“It is exciting to have a common platform 4G solution that addresses both the LTE and WiMAX markets using the Tata Elxsi software and the Cavium OCTEON processor platforms” said YJ Kim, Senior Director, Embedded Processor Group, Cavium Networks. “This will allow our joint customers to deploy 4G wireless in a very time-effective manner.”

TATA Elxsi also announced the availability of its 3GPP release 8 compliant LTE UE protocol stack, propelling early delivery of LTE terminal devices and silicon solutions.

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