Continuous Computing and picoChip Announce Ground-Breaking Agreement to Create LTE Hardware-Software Reference Design

BERLIN, SAN DIEGO and BATH, ENGLAND – May 19, 2009 – Continuous Computing®, the only company deploying uniquely architected systems comprised of telecom platforms and Trillium® software, and picoChip, the leading supplier of femtocell silicon, today announced that they will collaborate to produce a comprehensive Long Term Evolution (LTE) femtocell and picocell reference implementation. The results of the joint work will enable Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) to quickly get to market with a variety of small form factor LTE products, including femtocell and picocell base stations. Smaller eNodeB products, such as those based on the MicroTCA form factor, are expected to be important for LTE deployments worldwide. In a separate announcement made today, Continuous Computing also disclosed that its Trillium LTE software now supports the latest March 2009 3GPP E-UTRA LTE specifications.

Executives from picoChip and Continuous Computing believe that their memorandum of understanding, details of which were disclosed at the LTE World Summit in Berlin, is the industry’s first alliance for LTE femtocells / picocells which extends from a hardware reference design and physical layer implementation (PHY) all the way up through Layer 2 and Layer 3 LTE protocols.