Emsys Embedded Systems, a German engineering company, focuses on the development of hardware and software for fast serial buses such as USB, FireWire(TM), and Ethernet.

Qvantel Oy, a Finnish company offers cloud-based business support systems (BSS) for Telecommunications Service Providers, and supports data cards, USB modems, 3G routers and smart phone IT development services for wireless device vendors.

According to Ms. Liisa Grant, CEO of Qvantel, “”This partnership will expand our market, will help us to deliver complete solutions to our customers and will provide leverage from the first-class experience that Emsys has in embedded device software development. Given the constant downward pricing pressure on mobile terminals, our customers need to reduce their development and maintenance costs at every opportunity. This partnership will present a credible, state-of-art, and cost effective solution to the market for the whole product lifecycle”

“We are excited to support customers and address new opportunities that this co-operation provides, and look forward to increase our presence in Asia.” Said Dr. Karsten Pahnke, CEO of Emsys.

Qvantel offers USB device driver solutions built with the latest WDF framework recommended by Microsoft for mobile handsets including 2G, 3G, and 4G as well as USB modems and broadband data modules. These drivers support Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000.  Emsys provides USB Host and Device stacks for embedded devices supporting different types of hardware such as MYP, PictBridge USB transport devices and USB Sim Cards.

By combining their expertise they can now provide a full range of USB hardware, software and the appropriate drivers. Hopefully their new offerings will make a true PC tablet available at a reasonable price in the near future.