Monday, October 1, 2012

Xilinx acquires Modesat Communications

 
 
One of the world’s leading providers of programmable devices and technologies, Xilinx Inc., has acquired all the substantial assets of Modesat Communications of Estonia in a bid to develop further its own mobile backhaul IP provider.
 
The purchase amount was not disclosed but Xilinx revealed it planned to use the wireless backhaul capacity of Modesat for packet processing, as well as a host of IP solutions for varied mobile backhaul demands.
 
The rise of mobile devices have increased the number of bandwidth-intensive applications which has resulted in a greater demand for backhauling solutions. Xilinx is hoping the acquisition of Modesat Communications, which was founded in Estonia back in 2005, will help them provide solutions for IP cores, E band, and microwave. Many of today’s OEM’s are diversifying their mobile backhaul portfolios to address the strain on the backhaul network infrastructure.
 
Although Modesat was founded in Europe, the operations are in California and 15 of its employees have been absorbed to a Xilinx Communications Business Unit. The acquisition is also expected to complement Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 SoCs and the All Programmable 7 series FPGA systems.
 
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