London, UK – 6th June 2011: The Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, today announced the shortlists for the Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2011. Tata Elxsi is the only engineering service provider and Indian company to be shortlisted for this prestigious Femto Forum award 2011. The awards recognise outstanding achievement within, and contributions to, the femtocell industry. The winners will be announced on 22 June 2011 at Femtocells World Summit in London.

These awards recognise and reward this remarkable transformation of the mobile industry. I congratulate the finalists and look forward to the awards ceremony when the industry will come together and learn from its success stories- said Simon Saunders, Chairman Femto Forum.

Tata Elxsi’s submission studied the technical, commercial and operational issues associated with the cruise access network in supporting high data rate and real time applications. Tata Elxsi's proposed exploiting Femto features such as guaranteed QOS, efficient power usage, cost efficiency, Self organizing network (SON), local IP access, Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) and Operational and Maintenance (OAM). Over the past 2 years Tata Elxsi emerged as the market leading provider of LTE small cell reference design and protocol software for L2/L3 and L1 optimized to market leading processors.

Tata Elxsi earlier announced that 3 Tier-1 OEMs have chosen its Rel 8/9 compliant L2/L3 protocol stack for Femtocell products, underlining its maturity, completeness and flexibility to develop differentiating features using Tata Elxsi’s eNodeB solution.

Tata Elxsi will be demonstrating its eNodeB reference solution and femtocell applications at the upcoming Femto World Summit in London from June 21, 2011.

Commenting on being short listed for the Femto Forum award, Mr. Shyam Ananthnarayan, vice president of communications and wireless technology business at Tata Elxsi said, “We’re delighted with this recognition for Tata Elxsi's endeavor to enable femtocells and broadband wireless technologies into wider markets and application areas. We have been working with multiple OEMs and equipment vendors in 3G and LTE femtocell development across the world.

With Tata Elxsi's LTE Femtocell Reference Designs, Protocol Stacks and system development capability, vendors can reduce time to market, development costs and risk in their LTE product development,” he added.