NEW DELHI, India – May 9, 2012 – United Mobile Apps Pvt Ltd (UMA) announced today that its 4G/LTE Connection Management software is now fully integrated with FourGee suite of next generation LTE chipset solutions from Altair Semiconductor.
“Altair is considered one of the world’s leading silicon vendors for LTE, and we hope that integrating UConnect, UMA’s award winning connection management platform, with Altair’s chipsets will give us a head start when the Indian LTE market opens in Q3/Q4 2012,” said Sriram V Iyer, Co-Founder, UMA. “We are quite fortunate to partner with Altair from a very early stage of our startup.”
UConnect is built to tackle the unique challenges presented by next generation wireless networking scenarios, including support for Hybrid Wireless Networks, WiFi offloading, support for multiple logical connections / QoS from the mobile device to the network, support for network aware applications etc.
“As an LTE market leader, Altair’s core competency is built around our ability to innovate in the LTE market,” said Salaj Sinha, General Manager – Marketing & Sales, Altair India. “Simultaneously, it is important for us to have strategic partnerships with key ecosystem partners like United Mobile Apps, who are innovating and pushing the boundaries of Connection Management.”
The integration of UConnect and Altair’s FourGee LTE chipset solutions will allow device manufacturers to accelerate their time to market and lower integration time and costs.
About United Mobile Apps Pvt Ltd
United Mobile Apps Pvt Ltd, an India based 4G Technology company, has the vision of transforming the next generation wireless deployments by providing key innovations and platforms in the domains of Connection Management, Device Management and Data Synchronization. United Mobile Apps is backed by funding from Mumbai Angels, Blume Ventures, India Venture Partners and Christopher Preinz & Associates (EU)
About Altair Semiconductor
Altair Semiconductor is the world’s leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G semiconductors. Altair’s chipsets can be found in approximately 30 end-user devices – ranging from USB dongles to smartphones – built by its more than 15 customers across North America, Europe, China, India and Taiwan – making it one of the only TDD/FDD LTE chipset manufacturers in the world with commercially available products. Altair’s comprehensive product portfolio includes baseband processors, multi-band RF transceivers for both FDD and TDD bands, and a range of reference hardware and product level protocol stack software. Based on a novel, proprietary Software Defined Radio (SDR) processor, codenamed “O[2]P™”, Altair’s products are the smallest and most highly power optimized in the industry, offering an unmatched combination of flexibility and performance. For more information, visit the company’s website at altair-semi.com. Follow Altair on Twitter: @AltairSemi