Lantiq and Altair to bring broadband wireless LTE to home gateways

MUNICH, GERMANY & HOD HASHARON, ISRAEL: Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, and Altair Semiconductor, a leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, announced that Altair's LTE chipset will be used for the Lantiq XWAY GRX family of network processors, speeding development of LTE-ready home gateways.

Impact of collaboration
* Worldwide rollout of mobile LTE will make high-speed broadband connectivity available to previously underserved residential subscribers. Gateway equipment providers can quickly integrate support for the next-generation wireless standard into customer premise equipment.

* Equipment manufacturers can quickly deploy field-proven LTE-ready systems; the Altair FourGee-3100/6200 is a 3GPP LTE chipset that offers both TDD and FDD capabilities and has been extensively tested for interoperability with all leading infrastructure solutions.

* Lantiq's broad network processor portfolio and Altair's FourGee chipset allow OEMs/ODMs to develop a variety of LTE CPE equipment, from simple LTE bridge modems up to multiservice LTE gateways, optimized for different regional market requirements in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

* Lantiq's connectivity and voice product portfolio, including Fast/Gigabit-Ethernet, WLAN, FXS, DECT/CAT-iq solutions, complements the system offering allowing customers to build LTE gateways from pure data-only gateways up to high-end LTE gateways, including voice.

* Altair's software driver and Lantiq's Universal Gateway (UGW) firmware will speed up the system integration at OEMs/ODMs and will allow faster time-to-market.

Lantiq's XWAY GRX network processors and Altair's FourGee LTE chipset are available today, tested and field proven. The joint system solution is planned for Q1 2012.