The not-so-extreme makeover of ADC
By: By Jason Meyers
After several turbulent years, ADC has returned to consistent profitability and is on the lookout for expansion opportunities. Just don't expect this growth path to look much like the last one...
Where's WiBro? In Korea, right now
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiBro, the new mobile broadband standard in South Korea that is deeply aligned with Mobile WiMAX, is rapidly moving from demonstration and trial phase to commercial launch this spring...
Agilent enhances Mobile WiMAX tester
By: By Dan O'Shea
Agilent Technologies has announced enhancements to its 802.16e orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access tester Mobile WiMAX applications. ...
Beceem gets Intel investment
By: By Dan O'Shea
Mobile WiMAX chipset developer Beceem Communications has landed an investment from Intel Capital, the venture capital investment arm for Intel Corporation. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed....
A place for everything--even voice
By: by Tim McElligott
Who would have guessed that the big question mark in telecommunications after more than a century of progress and success would be voice service itself?...
KT starting WiBro test in Seoul
By: By Dan O'Shea
Korea Telecom, which debuted its much-anticipated WiBro wireless broadband service late last year at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea, has announced that it will launch WiBro on a test basis beginning tomorrow to about 200 of its employees in Seoul, South Korea. ...
ArrayComm, TI partner for wireless broadband
By: By Dan O'Shea
Smart Antenna vendor ArrayComm and Texas Instruments are working together to integrate ArrayComm's Network MIMO technology with TI's TMS320TCI6482 digital signal processors into a single reference design for wireless infrastructure applications. ...
WiMAX Forum awards 802.16e test contract
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX product certification lab Cetecom Spain and U.K.-based Aeroflex have won a joint contract from the WiMAX Forum to develop the protocol conformance test solution for the 802.16e standard, which will be the basis for Mobile WiMAX...
WiMAX Forum announces Asia lab
By: By Dan O'Shea
The WiMAX Forum announced today, as forum members and other ecosystem participants convened at the WiMAX Summit 2006 in Paris, that the forum has chosen its second certification test lab, which is also the first in Asia dedicated to serving that region, and the first lab location likely to conduct certification tests for Mobile WiMAX gear. ...
WiMAX positioned for vertical success
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX is more often mentioned as a potential residential broadband or mobile broadband alternative than it is as an enterprise solution, but there is plenty of reason to believe we'll see a lot of WiMAX in vertical enterprise markets...
3GSM: Alcatel unveils mobile WiMAX base station
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel became the first vendor out of the gate with a mobile WiMAX portfolio. At the 3GSM World Congress, it took the cover off of an Evolium base station built to the recently finalized IEEE 802.16e standards...
AT&T invests in wireless chipmaker
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T has invested in PicoChip, a Bath, England-based maker of WiMAX and HSDPA digital signal processors. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. ...
Big telco initiatives not the whole broadband story
By: By Carol Wilson
When it comes to grabbing headlines or making an impression on Wall Street, major fiber initiatives are certainly the ticket...
India awaits a broadband breakthrough
By: By Dan O'Shea
When it comes to telecom market potential, India, the second-most populated country in the world, is often overlooked in the shadow of its larger, more populated neighbor to the northeast...
OBSAI membership surges, WiMAX helps
By: By Dan O'Shea
The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI), the international wireless industry group pursuing open air interfaces for base station equipment, said today that its membership ranks had reached 130 companies...
Gallagher: Mobile WiMAX spectrum coming soon
By: By Dan O'Shea
The burgeoning WiMAX community in the U.S. may see spectrum swaths in the 700 MHz band auctioned off for 802.16e Mobile WiMAX deployments within the next two years, according to Michael Gallagher, assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, and head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration....
WiMAX group refines a maligned process
By: By Dan O'Shea
Certification gets back on track with announcement of forum-certified process...
WCA: BellSouth readies RFP
By: By Dan O'Shea
SAN JOSE, CALIF.--BellSouth tomorrow plans to finish and send out what company officials are calling a "WiMAX RFP," a request-for-proposal for broadband wireless equipment in the 2.3 Ghz and 2.5 Ghz ranges, Telephony has learned. ...
WCA: WiMAX Forum unveils first certified products
By: By Dan O'Shea
SAN JOSE.CALIF.--The WiMAX Forum, one day after discussing changes in the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard that led to a last-minute delay in certification testing, announced this morning the first products to pass conformance and interoperability testing and achieve the designation of "WiMAX Forum Certified"...
WCA: Sequans, LG work on WiBro, Mobile WiMAX
By: By Dan O'Shea
SAN JOSE, CALIF.--Paris-based WiMAX chip developer Sequans Communications announced at the WCA International Symposium and Business Expo here that the company will deliver a system-on-a-chip to LG Electronics that can be used in an array of devices supporting upcoming WiBro launches in South Korea and later Mobile WiMAX services....
WCA: Forum says IEEE change delayed certification
By: By Dan O'Shea
SAN JOSE, CALIF.--The WiMAX Forum said at the WCA International Symposium & Business Expo that the IEEE delivered a corrigendum adjustment to the 802.16-2004 standard to the WiMAX Forum in November that caused the group to make changes in its certification testing program, ultmately delaying the certification process...
WCA: Chip vendor TeleCIS lands $10 million
By: By Dan O'Shea
SAN JOSE, CALIF.--TeleCIS Wireless announced the day before the WAC International Symposium and Business Expo here that the Santa Clara, Calif., company has secured $10 million in Series C funding...
WCA: Aperto talks WiMAX, backhaul
By: By Dan O'Shea
SAN JOSE, CALIF.--Broadband wireless access vendor Aperto Networks said it will be demonstrating its PacketMAX family of WiMAX gear at this week's WCA International Symposium and Business Expo, which officially kicks off here tomorrow...
Air Broadband uses Fujitsu WiMAX SoC
By: By Dan O'Shea
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. ...
picoChip integrates MIMO from ArrayComm
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX chip developer picoChip and antenna pioneer ArrayComm are two of the latest companies getting a jump on next week's WCA International Symposium and Business Expo, announcing this week that ArrayComm’s Network MIMO software will be incorporated into the PHY of picoChip’s flexible wireless solution. ...
