GCT and Green Packet Demo Wi-Fi/WiMAX Handover

WiMAX vendor, GCT Semiconductor and Malaysia's Green Packet have announced a collaboration to develop seamless connectivity and handover between WiMAX and Wi-Fi. The Green Packet "Intouch Connectivity Manager" integrates Green PacketÃ's Mobile IP solution with GCTÃ's GDM7215, a single-chip solution supporting both mobile WiMAX IEEE 802.16e Wave 2 and WiFi 802.11 b/g.

"A seamless broadband environment is now a reality. It is no longer just an idea on paper or a vision for the future," said Kelvin Lee, Senior General Manager of Green Packet. "With Green PacketÃ's "Intouch Connection Manager" users enjoy uninterrupted connections as the solution intelligently and transparently switches between WiMAX and Wi-Fi according to connectivity rules set by the user or the operator. Our intelligent connectivity management solution is aptly named Intouch to correspond to the fact that users will never have to experience a ‘disconnectÃ'."

That seamless connectivity will soon be available to Malaysians. Green Packet has already signed up MalaysiaÃ's first and largest WiMAX operator, Packet One Networks (P1) to roll out this technology in the coming months.

GDM7215 implements mobile WiMAX RF/MAC/PHY and WiFi RF/MAC/PHY on a monolithic integrated circuit. GDM7215 supports multimode wireless connectivity with its on-chip RF transceivers, allowing seamless broadband and local wireless roaming. Based on GCTÃ's CMOS RF technology, GDM7215 integrates WiMAX and WiFi radios, a high performance ARM9 RISC processor along with a 32-bit uniscalar DSP, and a full range of interfaces for network, storage, and audio/visual device applications.

In February, Samsung and Alcatel-Lucent demonstrated a seamless GSM-WiMAX handover

Posted to the site on 19th June 2008