OREANDA-NEWS. September 26, 2012. SORAINEN Estonian office advised Modesat Communications, a high performance wireless backhaul solutions provider with industry leading capabilities and roadmap, in selling its business to the NASDAQ listed Xilinx, Inc. Manufacturers focusing on mobile backhaul platforms can now take advantage of Xilinx® All Programmable 7 series FPGAs and Zynq™-7000 SoCs combined with Modesat wireless backhaul solutions to gain market competitiveness and differentiation, reported the press-centre of SORAINEN.

Modesat IP solutions are highly optimized algorithmic implementations designed from the ground up targeting FPGA silicon. Modesat's patented technology has been validated by customers and designed into multiple customer backhaul systems. Their IP solutions cover the complete wireless mobile backhaul requirements for wireless single-carrier PHY, packet processing and connectivity (eNet) capabilities.

"Xilinx is the industry's leading FPGA manufacturer for the wireless communications market. Bringing our modem technology and design expertise to the Xilinx family is an ideal fit," says Tarmo Pihl, co-founder of Modesat Communications. "Xilinx currently does significant business in the wireless infrastructure backhaul segment based on their complete All Programmable FPGA offering. With the addition of Modesat backhaul solutions the opportunity in this segment will be greatly expanded and we will be better able to serve tier-1 and tier-2 wireless infrastructure customers and provide complete backhaul modem solutions."

Modesat Communications was founded in 2005 in Tallinn, Estonia, and also had an office in San Diego, California. Modesat Communications had several financial investors, including Ambient Sound Investments as lead investor as well as the Estonian Development Fund, and this transaction serves as the benchmark in Estonia for a successful exit by a technology startup company.

The SORAINEN team was led by partner Toomas Prangli and specialist counsel Kadri Kallas.