Fujitsu Microelectronics America and Air Broadband Communications, a maker of WiMAX and Wi-Fi switches and management systems, announced that the latter vendor has chosen the Fujitsu WiMAX System-on-Chip (SoC) for its new wireless IP switch/router implementations for WiMAX access control routers and base stations.

The Fujitsu WiMAX SoC, the MB87M3400, was introduced in April 2005 at the Broadband Wireless World Summit in Las Vegas, and a month later in the same city, Air Broadband introduced its PiMAX Access Control Router at the Interop trade show. Fujistu will be exhibiting at the WCA International Symposium and Business Expo next week in San Jose.

The wireless IP switch/routers, which are based on 802.11 wireless LAN and 802.16 WiMAX standards, provide fast layer 2 and layer 3 roaming and scalability in multi-cell networks, enabling real-time applications and management capabilities, accorfing to a statement from the companies. The implementations for PiMAX ACR and base station provide the IP mobility, multi-vendor base-stations compatibility, wide scalability and per-flow quality-of-service improvements needed for WiMAX deployment, they said.

Aperto Networks and MiTAC are among some of the other system vendors that have said they are using the Fujitsu SoC in WiMAX products.