AceAxis selects NetLogic Microsystems' Digital Front-End processors for multimode LTE base stations

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., recently acquired by Broadcom Corporation, announced at Mobile World Congress that AceAxis Ltd., a company that specializes in Remote Radio Head (RRH) technology, has selected NetLogic Microsystems' digital front-end (DFE) processors for AceAxis' RRH and Active Antenna Systems (AAS) for LTE common-platform base stations. AceAxis' RRH and AAS solutions support a wide frequency band and have multimode, multiband, multicarrier capabilities. The exponential growth in mobile data traffic in the next decade, coupled with global spectrum scarcity, is forcing service providers and operators worldwide to push the limits on capacity and throughput for their limited spectrum. NetLogic Microsystems' hopes its DFE processors can fill this need, with their performance of up to 5x increase in signal bandwidth and up to 9x increase in instantaneous bandwidth over other solutions, which improves 3G/4G LTE data rates.