picoChip and Continuous Computing to co-host Light Reading webinar on the technological challenges of femtocells

picoChip and Continuous Computing invite customers, press, and analysts to attend a Light Reading webinar, Building Converged Femtocell Devices, delivered by Rupert Baines (VP marketing, picoChip) and Manish Singh (VP field engineering, Continuous Computing).

Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Time: 11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST / 7:00 p.m. GMT Event: Building Converged Femtocell Devices Host: Simon Stanley, Independent Analyst, Light Reading Featured Speakers:

*    Rupert Baines, Vice President of Marketing, picoChip
*    Manish Singh, Vice President of Field Engineering, Continuous Computing

Attendance: To attend the webinar participants can register at:

www.lightreading.com/webinar.asp?doc_id=28726&promo=27020

In this webinar, picoChip and Continuous Computing will discuss their views on the femtocell market and the technological challenges facing mobile operators looking to deploy femtocells, focusing on the role of femtocells in the network infrastructure evolution.

Operators are looking at femtocells and wireless technology evolution onto 3G and 4G networks - whether via HSPA, WiMAX, or LTE/UMB - as a way to introduce revenue-generating services such as mobile TV, games, and mobile search while offering consumers the advantages of fixed-mobile convergence. In parallel, residential gateways, IPTV, and WiFi access points are starting to converge into multi-service devices.

This webinar presents the business case and architecture options for merging these complementary technologies into a converged solution delivering quadruple play services. Femtocells, the underlying market dynamics, and the software / hardware architecture possibilities for delivering femtocell solutions will be discussed. Topics to be covered during the webinar include:

*    Network evolution and the indoor coverage challenge for 3G and 4G
*    Network infrastructure evolution
*    The integration challenge of femtocells
*    Standardization and segmentation within the market
*    Network architecture options: benefits, disadvantages, and market drivers

picoChip and Continuous Computing will be available for a live Q&A discussion on these topics immediately following the presentation.

picoChip is the leading supplier of multi-core DSP delivering extremely high performance at competitive cost points. It offers a powerful platform to develop infrastructure products for emerging global wireless communications markets such as WiMAX, LTE, McWILL, TD-SCDMA and 4G. In addition, the company offers complete reference design for WiMAX and HSDPA femtocell, picocell and macrocell basestations.