WCA: MiTAC goes with Fujitsu SoC
By: By Dan O'Shea
Fujitsu Microelectronics America announced at the WCA conference this week that MiTAC Technology Corp., a broadband wireless ODM based in Taiwan, will use the chipset maker's WiMAX system-on-chip (SoC) to build its customer premises equipment...
Tier 1 carriers eyeing WiMAX, broadband wireless offerings
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Broadband wireless is starting to gain traction among the Tier 1 U.S. carriers, as three of the industry's wireline powerhouses announced plans to launch...
WiMAX prepares to come of age
By: by KEVIN FITCHARD
Though its debut ball is still months off, WiMAX expressed all the nervous energy of a young technology ready to turn adult at Supercomm...
ArrayComm, Intel to push for smart antenna support in WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ArrayComm now has a very powerful ally in its effort to promote its smart antenna technology in the new WiMAX standards. ...
AT&T to pursue WiMAX in Atlanta
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T will expand its trial of broadband wireless access to Atlanta in the fourth quarter, using pre-certified WiMAX equipment, AT&T officials said...
Nokia back in WiMAX’s good graces
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s love-hate relationship with WiMAX has taken a swing to the amorous side. The vendor announced today that it is partnering with Intel to develop 802.16e mobile WiMAX technology....
Giving WiMAX the get-up-and-go
By: By Jason Ankeny
With the WiMAX Forum's 802.16-2004 standard certification program in place, attention now turns to the 802.16e mobile specification. Vendors and service providers alike can't wait to get moving...
WiMAX: A market worth measuring
By: By Dan O'Shea
With 802.16-2004 product certification testing scheduled to begin in July, and certified products expected to be on the market by the end of this year, there is plenty of urgency...
Summer fun at Certification Central
By: By Dan O'Shea
What will you do on your summer vacation? WiMAX engineers will be spending part of theirs testing gear at Cetecom Labs in Malaga, Spain...
WiMAX as the spectrum workhorse
By: By Nancy Gohring
A look at some of the challenges WiMAX will face as it comes to market in myriad spectrum swaths around the world...
WiMAX chipsets: TeleCIS takes its time
By: By Dan O'Shea
To the casual observer, it might seem like a multitude of companies are launching WiMAX chipsets...
WiMAX sector gets active in advance of Supercomm
By: By Dan O'Shea
Terabeam, Adaptix make product strides; Forum gets two new members...
Terabeam plans WiMAX product
By: By Dan O'Shea
Terabeam Wireless, the once much-celebrated free space optics vendor acquired last year by YDI Wireless, announced that it will integrate the WiMAX system-on-a-chip recently launched by Fujitsu Microelectronics America into its Terabeam TeraMax 3.0 product family. ...
Fujitsu intros its WiMAX SOC solution
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX wars have officially started as the two biggest chipset vendors have both released their first batches of silicon powering the new technology...
NextWeb extends network to Las Vegas
By: By Jason Ankeny
Broadband wireless service provider NextWeb today announced its first network expansion outside of its native California, extending coverage into Las Vegas. ...
Mobile WiMAX roams ahead of schedule
By: By Dan O'Shea
Services based on 802.16e are at least two years away, but the market already seems primed for the next big thing...
Sprint, Intel explore WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint and Intel today said they are forging an alliance to jointly develop WiMAX 802.16e technology, the WiMAX specification now in the standards process that will add mobility to the broadband wireless platform...
Spanish prisoners: WiMAX Forum convenes in Malaga
By: By Dan O'Shea
The southern coast of Spain was a warm and entrancing, sun-dappled paradise in mid-April a great choice of location for the WiMAX Forum's quarterly members' meeting...
Huawei to use Intel WiMAX chips
By: By Dan O'Shea
Huawei Technologies and Intel announced at the China Wireless Forum 2005 in Shanghai, China, that the Chinese network equipment giant will use Intel's 802.16-2004-compliant fixed WiMAX chipsets in the development of carrier-grade network gear. ...
WiMAX Forum OKs test plan
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX, the often-embattled but wildly promising set of IEEE specifications being touted by the WiMAX Forum as both complement and successor to existing...
Intel raises WiMAX ante with new chip
By: By Jason Ankeny
Intel last week raised the curtain on its first-ever WiMAX product...
Fujitsu follows Intel in WiMAX chip parade
By: By Dan O'Shea
Fujitsu Microelectronics America officially made its long-awaited entry into the WiMAX semiconductor market late last week at Broadband Wireless World...
BWW: WiMAX chip launches heat recovering sector
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--With rampant product launches and many exhibitors talking of new funding on the way, the eighth annual Broadband Wireless World conference in Las Vegas this week has the same look and feel it might have had five or six years ago...
NextWeb to launch VoIP over WiMAX
By: By Jason Ankeny
Broadband wireless service provider NextWeb announced today that it will launch voice-over-IP services through a strategic partnership with VoIP solutions facilitator CommPartners. ...
Intel launches first WiMAX chip
By: By Jason Ankeny
Intel today announced shipments of its first WiMAX product, the Intel PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface chipset. ...
