Telit announces the industry's first LTE Mini PCIe card with support for LTE Advanced Cat 11

     Global iot enabler Telit announces the LM940. The global router and gateway industry's first Full PCI Express mini-card (mPCIe) module, which supports LTE Advanced Cat 11 at speeds up to 600 Mbps, will be licensed by mobile network operators in the fourth quarter of 2017. The industrial-class LM940 is the industry's only mPCIe card with built-in Snapdragon X12 LTE modem and Cat 11 support, providing great flexibility to create an unparalleled user experience that gives original equipment manufacturers (Oems) a competitive advantage when they want to quickly deploy their next-generation products.

     Today, as applications such as HD video streaming with digital signage, business and enterprise failover needs, and pop-up stores become increasingly complex, customers of router and gateway Oems are demanding more bandwidth and almost instantaneous network response.

     Sam Lucero, senior principal analyst at global information provider IHS Markit, said: "This industrial-grade module developed by Telit supports LTE Cat 11 and covers the global market, making it attractive to device vendors looking to deploy the latest solutions now, especially in the router and gateway markets, where it can support high-bandwidth applications such as digital signage. In our Industrial Cellular iot Gateway Market report * released in June 2016, IHS Markit projected that shipments of gateway products would rise from nearly 2 million units in 2016 to more than 6 million units in 2021. Shipments of industrial-grade cellular iot gateways will exceed $1.6 billion by 2021."

     Manish Watwani, Telit's vice President of Global product Marketing, said: "Telit has once again strengthened its leadership position by providing customers with the latest LTE Advanced technology that they can bring to market now. In the global router and gateway industry, only the LM940 currently allows Oems to immediately take advantage of the tri-carrier aggregation and advanced 256QAM modulation capabilities currently available on most mobile carrier networks. Coupled with an outstanding power platform, it is the ideal solution for the router industry, helping to develop a variety of business and enterprise applications, such as inter-branch networking, LTE failover, digital signage, kiosks, pop-up stores, automotive routers and construction sites."

     Gautam Sheoran, Director of product management at Qualcomm, said: "The Snapdragon X12 LTE modem with LTE Advanced technology has a maximum download speed of 600 Mbps, defining a new level of service for emerging applications. We are very pleased with our current partnership with Telit to bring technology to the global market that supports emerging applications such as 4K video, virtual reality and cognitive computing."