Sierra AirPrime MC7455 PCI Express Mini Card is a compact, lightweight, wireless LTE-Advanced and UMTS based modem. It provides LTE-FDD, LTE-TDD, DC-HSPA+, HSPA+, HSDPA, HSUPA, WCDMA, and GNSS connectivity for networking, and M2M applications over several radio frequency bands and supports 3G roaming. Sierra MC7455 is a 4G LTE cat.6 module (FDD & TDD), with a down link data rate of up to 300 Mbps, primarily for Europe, North and South America. Support for Carrier Aggregation (CA) and MIMO. Fall back to 3G DC-HSPA+ with Rx diversity. It has a brother model Sierra MC7430 which is also a LTE Cellular module with Category 6.
Sierra Wireless AirPrime MC7455 Technical Specifications:
* Form factor: PCIe Mini Card
* Chipset: Qualcomm MDM9230
* Air interface: 4G-LTE cat 6 (FDD & TDD) with CA (Carrier Aggregation) and MIMO, 3G-HSPA+DC with Rx Diversity, GNSS
* Support 4G bands: B1 (2100), B2 (1900), B3 (1800), B4 (1700), B5 (850), B7 (2600), B8 (900), B12 (700), B13 (700), B20 (800), B25 (1900), B26 (850), B29 (700), B30 (2300), B41 (2500/TDD)
* Support 3G bands: B1 (2100), B2 (1900), B3 (1800), B4 (1700), B5 (850), B8 (900)
* Support LTE Peak Data rate: DL 300 Mbps, UL 50 Mbps
* GNSS (GPS, Glonass, Beidou, Galileo*): Qualcomm
* Regulatory: FCC, IC, CE, NCC, GCF, PTCRB
* Dimensions: 51 x 30 x 2.5 mm
* Supply Voltage: 3.3 V nominal
* Operating Temperature: -40°C to +85°C
* Supported Carriers: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Vodafone
- Control, Software and Features
* Control options: AT Commands, QMI SDK, MBIM
* For optimum control the QMI SDK is recommended
* Drivers: Android, Linux, Windows
* Switch networks anytime with up to three different certified firmware variants on board.
- Connectors
* System connector: 52 position Mini PCIe
* Antenna RF connector: 3x U.FL (Main RF, Aux RF, GPS with DC bias)
- Interfaces
* 1x USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 High Speed
* 1x Wake host
* 1x Wireless disable
* 1x System RESET
* 3x Antenna Control (muxed with GPIO 1-3)
* 1x Dynamic Power Control, DPR (muxed with GPIO 4)
* 4x GPIO (muxed with Antenna control or DPR)
* 1x LED driver output
* 2x SIM interface: 1.8/3V
* 1x Digital Audio
- Audio
* Optional
* Digital audio: PCM/I2S
* 4G: VoLTE
* 3G: Circuit Switched Fall Back (CSFB voice)