Aeroflex and Sequans Communications have entered into a test technology partnership to speed the ongoing development of their respective WiMAX solutions. Sequans will provide Aeroflex with early access to its new and upgraded WiMAX semiconductor solutions and reference designs. Aeroflex will use them for the ongoing verification of its WiMAX Protocol Conformance Tester (PCT) that is being developed under the auspices of the WiMAX Forum.

In return, Sequans will gain early vital access to Aeroflex's WiMAX test equipment, providing them with the regular flow of valuable test data needed. Aeroflex will pre-validate Sequans' reference designs to European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) conformance standards.

"Aeroflex is the leader in WiMAX test and our technology partnership will provide us with a vital source of test data to feed back into our ongoing product development programme," said Bertrand Debray, vice president, engineering, Sequans Communications. "The ability to pre-validate our reference designs to ETSI protocol conformance requirements will undoubtedly generate even greater confidence in our WiMAX semiconductor solutions amongst potential customers."