Novatel Wireless, which is lately best known for the MiFi personal hotspot product series, unveiled its LTE embedded modules portfolio, powered by Qualcomm’s MDM9200 and MDM9600 multi-mode 3G/LTE chipsets. More precisely, the company announced three LTE-ready PCle Mini Cards:
- Expedite E351 – which provides multimode support for LTE and EV-DO Rev. A and backward compatibility for all CDMA networks.
- Expedite E362 – works on LTE, HSPA+ (GSM-based) and EV-DO (CDMA-based) networks.
- Expedite E371 – provides support for LTE with backward compatibility to dual carrier HSPA+, UMTS, EDGE and GPRS.
In addition to cellular network radios, each module also features enhanced GPS/GNAA capabilities (for navigation), as well as Novaspeed that provides higher throughput via proprietary network traffic prioritization, and Novatel Wireless’ Connection Manager – Mobilink 3. Finally, Novatel’s embedded modules are optimized for power efficiency, thermal performance and weight.
Availability wise, Novatel Wireless’ LTE embedded modules are expected to launch commercially aligned with carriers’ LTE roll-out and commercial chipset availability starting in the second half of 2010.