Internet of Things (IoT) company Telit announced that VAIO selected its LTE Category 9 (Cat 9) LN940 mobile data card to enable LTE-Advanced connectivity for its S series notebooks.
VAIO will launch laptops and notebooks — VAIO S11 and S13 – supporting Cat 9 mobile broadband download speeds of up to 450 Mbps in late September of 2017 in Japan.
With the single-SKU LN940 supporting 24 LTE bands and 3G fallback, device makers can provide an effective solution for international business travel across all geographies, while simplifying their own logistics, manufacturing, and inventory management.
“We have been integrating Telit data cards into our mobile products from our previous model and always aim to deliver leading edge solutions like the LTE Advanced technologies we are integrating now to improve product performance,” said Kaoru Hayashi, senior general manager PC Business Division of VAIO.
“Selected as the sole provider of embedded LTE Cat 9 data cards by VAIO further validates that Telit provides the latest, highest-quality and most reliable mobile broadband solutions for use today,” said Yosi Fait, interim CEO of Telit.
Telit said the LN94x family is 42mm M.2 form factor with satellite positioning functionality supporting GPS, GLONASS and Beidou. The LN94x data card series includes variants delivering LTE-Advanced high-speed data in Categories 6, 9, and 11 supporting carrier aggregation.
