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Articles tagged with: Wimax Forum and Wimax
WiMAX Forum Starts Roaming Trials
The WiMAX Forum has announced that 14 vendors are participating in the first ever commercial WiMAX interoperability and roaming trials. The commercial trial provides another platform for the WiMAX Forum to aggressively position operators and clearinghouses to initiate commercial roaming services which will lead to roaming worldwide. more
Related Tags: roaming, testing, interoperability
Cisco Joins WiMAX Forum Board of Directors
The WiMAX Forum has announced the addition of Cisco as a new member of its board of directors. Sai Subramanian, director of marketing for the broadband wireless business unit of Cisco, will serve as Cisco’s representative on the WiMAX Forum board. Last week, the WiMAX Forum also announced that it had added Tata Communications’ COO Prateek Pashine to its board. more
Related Tags: cisco, sprint, nortel-networks, magticom, chipset, 4g
WiMAX Forum Reports 13 New Networks Announced in April
The WiMAX Forum has started publishing a monthly report on network developments and statistics. The first issue notes that approximately 13 new WiMAX network deployments were announced in April. Currently, the WiMAX Forum tracks a total of 468 WiMAX deployments in 139 countries. more
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Comsys Mobile Offers WiMAX-GSM Handset Reference Platform
Fabless semiconductor vendor, Comsys Mobile has announced the launch of their latest ComMAX reference design platform, the CM1125RD - an optimized multimode mobile WiMAX/GSM-EDGE smartphone reference design platform. Based on the ComMAX CM1125 baseband processor and integrating solutions from Comsys Mobile's partners, it incorporates all the features and functionalities required of smartphones, from antennae up to application processor. more
Related Tags: m1, 3g, semiconductor, smartphone, mobile-wimax, voip, edge, smartphones, gps, ovi, battery, ims, gsm, life
Despite the Naysayers WiMAX Subscriber Revenue Will Boom in 2009
Any reader who believed all the recent headlines would feel confident that the WiMAX market is being crushed by LTE. Nortel has left the WiMAX market and Alcatel-Lucent has "backed off" from WiMAX; and these developments supposedly dealt a blow to Clearwire, which had so far chosen neither as an infrastructure vendor. But that's not quite the whole story. more
Related Tags: base-station, intel, samsung, mobile-wimax, motorola, clearwire, lte, abi-research, alcatel-lucent, nortel, base-stations, wimax,, wireless-broadband
WiMAX Forum Projects Over 800 Million People to Have Access to WiMAX Networks by 2010
The WiMAX Forum has announced that WiMAX Service Providers now offer networks covering 430 million people, or POPS, globally and are on a path to nearly double to 800 million people by end of 2010. In addition, global WiMAX network deployments are approaching 460 in more than 135 countries for fixed, portable, and mobile networks. more
Related Tags: pops, intel, samsung, zte, mobile-broadband, mobile-internet, 4g
VeriSign to Provide PKI Authentication to WiMAX Industry
The WiMAX Forum has selected VeriSign to provide security solutions based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). As a trusted Certification Authority, VeriSign is set to perform critical certificate lifecycle functions for WiMAX service providers and device manufacturers including secure key generation and storage as well as certificate issuance, validation, revocation, and renewal. more
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WiMAX Forum Announces Launch of Global Roaming Program
The WiMAX Forum has announced the launch of its Global Roaming Program that allows operators and vendors to obtain the information required to establish WiMAX roaming services. more
Related Tags: mobile-wimax, roaming, clearwire, kt, syniverse, 4g
Airspan Wins Expansion WiMAX Contract for Costa Rica
Airspan Networks has announced today that I.C.E. (El Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad) of Costa Rica, the country's main telecommunications operator, has awarded it a follow-on order worth approximately US$12.5 million through its local partner, Datatell, for a network expansion and the deployment of several tens of thousands of CPEs (customer premises equipment). more
Related Tags: base-station, itu, rcom, base-stations, wireless-broadband, CostaRica
Anite Launches New Mobile WiMAX Host Tester
Test systems vendor, Anite has announced the launch of its Mobile WiMAX Host Tester, which it says is the only Host Testing Solution available in the market for Mobile Station Stack developers and integrators. more
Related Tags: base-station, mobile-wimax, anite, chipset, testing