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Semiconductor Technology from STMicroelectronics Underlies Tomorrow’s Mobile Network Infrastructures

ST’s BiCMOS-based RF transceiver enables mobile-network backhaul data rates above 10Gbps.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

STMicroelectronics‘ advanced BiCMOS55 SiGe1 technology has been selected by the European E3NETWORK R&D initiative for developing energy-efficient, high-capacity transmission systems in next-generation mobile networks.   Skyrocketing mobile-data usage requires networks to support greater capacity and higher data rates. This places new challenges on the backhaul infrastructure, accelerating the transition to advanced network architectures, such as Heterogeneous Network and Cloud RAN (Radio A...

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