ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.-Sierra Wireless Inc. will use PrairieComm Inc.’s PCI3800 integrated baseband processor to enable a next-generation TDMA/EDGE wireless modem now in development, allowing notebook computers and other mobile computing devices to access data networks through wireless service providers.
The AirCard, expected to begin shipping during the third quarter of 2001, will also use PrairieComm’s Wireless Hardware Abstraction Layer software for TDMA/EDGE.
PrairieComm also announced a collaboration agreement with Pixo Inc. to provide a TDMA-based software reference design for wireless phones that PrairieComm said would help wireless phone manufacturers develop and introduce next-generation products.
