Tata Elxsi introduces LTE eNodeB Software Solution

Tata Elxsi, a leading embedded product
design company is a part of the $70 billion Tata group. The company
announced its collaboration with Cavium Networks, offering LTE eNodeB
solutions based on the Cavium OCTEON Plus processor family.

Tata Elxsi's LTE eNodeB protocol
stack with a proven and highly-scalable architecture provides two
variants, for high capacity macro and micro base stations and low
capacity pico and femtocells. This combination boasts 1 to 16-core
MIPS64 architecture with an advanced hardware acceleration offers
equipment vendors optimized multi-variant solutions. Customers also
benefit from Tata Elxsi's full system development expertise, which
provides cost benefits and time-to-market advantages. Various
features like hardware-software partitioning and interface definition
facilitate easy optimization for multi-core operations and best
utilization of platform hardware acceleration.

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. Designed with flexible SAP-based interfaces, the
state-of-the-art solution also implements an OAM interface layer for
system configuration and monitoring purposes.

The solution has been integrated with
TEL-developed PHY layers based on leading DSPs and is well tested
against third party UEs. With Tata Elxsi's market-leading WiMAX
base station software, this solution provides costumers with a common
4G hardware platform to target both LTE and WiMAX.

“Equipment manufacturers can ensure
early delivery of LTE products with this solution. While we help in
the solution building and integration, they can focus on
productization,” said Nitin Pai, VP- Marketing, Tata Elxsi. “The
key differentiator in our solution is our ability to offer flexible
architectures scaling from femto to macro with dynamic load-balancing
capabilities. The LTE eNodeB will provide customers with the benefits
of reduced development costs and time-to-market,” said Pai.

“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. This will allow our joint customers to deploy 4G wireless
in a very time-effective manner,” said YJ Kim, Senior
Director-Embedded Processor Group, Cavium Networks.