Asia-Pac WiMAX activity flares
By: By Dan O'Shea
The upcoming WiMAX trial that Japan's Softbank Group and Motorola announced this week is just the latest example of how the Asia-Pacific Rim region is brimming with WiMAX activity, including trials and commercial deployments....
Sequans raises $24 million
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sequans Communications today said it has raised $24 million in its second round of financing, which it plans to use to grow the company in the mobile WiMAX market...
WiMAX wins one convert, awaits more
By: By Dan O'Shea
The WiMAX community late last week was still anxiously awaiting any indication from Sprint that it plans to deploy the technology...
WiMAX Forum taps VeriSign for security
By: By Dan O'Shea
Network security company VeriSign has announced that it has been selected by the WiMAX Forum to provide public key infrastructure (PKI) security services to all WiMAX Forum-Certified solutions based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 Fixed WiMAX and ETSI HiperMAN 1.2.1 standards...
French award WiMAX licenses
By: By Dan O'Shea
There’s no World Cup France, but there are WiMAX licenses. France’s telecom regulatory body, Arcep, announced late last week that it was awarding 35 WiMAX licenses in the 3.4 GHz to 3.6 GHz frequency band...
UPDATE: Moto’s Clearwire move stirs WiMAX implications
By: By Dan O'Shea
Motorola's acquisition of NextNet puts Clearwire on a path to deploy Motorola’s WiMAX gear, and also may have broader significance for a WiMAX community that is anxiously awaiting word from another major service provider--Sprint--about whether or not it will deploy WiMAX....
Motorola may face wireless/wireline crossroads
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola’s acquisition of broadband wireless equipment vendor NextNet Wireless this week comes as the vendor’s wireline broadband business may be approaching a crossroads. (Photo by: Frank Polich/Bloomberg News/Landov)...
Motorola buys its way into Clearwire's network
By: By Dan O'Shea
Motorola is acquiring NextNet Wireless, the broadband wireless equipment owned by Clearwire, which also has been the exclusive supplier of equipment for Clearwire's network...
VCom acquires WaveRider, MIMO IP
By: By Dan O'Shea
Broadband wireless access vendor VCom has announced that it has agreed to acquire WaveRider Communications and other subsidiaries of Wave Wireless Corp. in a cash deal worth about $1 million...
UPDATE: BellSouth puts Alcatel, 802.16e through paces
By: By Dan O'Shea
BellSouth’s lab trial of Alcatel’s Evolium 802.16e-based, pre-WiMAX system is likely the first step prior to outdoor tests that could occur sometime in the first quarter next year, according to a BellSouth official....
WCA spotlights ongoing platform debate
By: By Jason Meyers
The WCA 2006 event held this week in Washington, D.C. provided a stage for much sparring over which technology platform ultimately will win out with large network operators...
BellSouth adds broadband wireless markets
By: By Dan O'Shea
BellSouth, which already offers broadband fixed wireless service in six cities in the southeast, said today it will expand the service into five more markets during the third quarter...
Report: India needs regulatory readiness for WiMAX
By: By Jason Meyers
The research firm Maravedis released a report today that predicts high-volume, low-margin opportunities for WiMAX technology vendors in India, provided regulatory and spectrum issues are adequately addressed by the Indian government....
WiMAX makes case in Asia
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Some of the first Mobile WiMAX products began emerging at CommunicAsia this year as vendors began preparing for the first wave of certification...
COMMUNICASIA: Adaptix to reveal first WiMAX product
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SINGAPORE--OFDMA pioneer Adaptix is rolling out its first broadband wireless product in years, introducing next week a mobile WiMAX platform it has constructed from its software-defined radio and mobile OFDMA technologies....
In the Spotlight: George Riedel, Chief Strategy Officer, Nortel Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
George Riedel, a former Juniper Networks executive, was named Nortel Networks’ chief strategy officer in February as part of a thorough senior-management housecleaning effort conducted by Mike Zafirovski, who became Nortel’s CEO last November. ...
Ever-expanding Adva eyes WiMAX
By: By Ed Gubbins
The day after Adva Optical Networking announced last week’s acquisition of Movaz Networks, Adva’s chief executive officer Brian Protiva visited with several WiMAX companies at the Globalcomm trade show to learn more about WiMAX’s applicability to Adva’s business...
Globalcomm: Motorola pushes WiMAX ecosystem
By: By Dan O'Shea
CHICAGO--Motorola said it wants to help build a comprehensive WiMAX ecosystem by working closely with multiple chipset suppliers to ensure a wide variety, volume and interoperability of WiMAX-enabled devices and other CPE, PC cards and base stations. ...
Globalcomm: Spirent announces WiMAX strategy
By: By Dan O'Shea
CHICAGO--Spirent announced its WiMAX test solution, the SR5500 Wireless Channel Emulator, an extension of the company's existing wireless channel emulation platform designed for emerging WiMAX frequencies of 2.5 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 5.8 GHz...
WiBro/Mobile WiMAX exchange begins
By: By Dan O'Shea
While the WiMAX Forum is conducting programs to certify product interoperability for the WiMAX standard, the hunt continues for the right carrier business...
Softswitch/media gateway market stays hot
By: By Dan O'Shea
Just in time for Globalcomm 2006, where numerous softswitch and media gateway solutions will be on display, Dittberner Associates recently reported softswitch/gateway market results for first quarter 2006...
New WiBro/Mobile WiMAX group forms
Korea Telecom, the South Korean service provider leading the charge to deploy WiBro, has aligned with U.S.-based Covad Communications, Japan's NTT, China's PCCW and TeleKom Malaysia Berhad to create the WiBro and mobile WiMAX Community (WMC), a new industry group focused on promoting the deployment and interoperability of WiBro, a mobile WiMAX broadband wireless technology standard. ...
WiMAX World: New chips, new execs, new deployments
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX technologist Wavesat is putting mobility in Fixed WiMAX--or at least portability. At WiMAX World Europe in Vienna this week, the chip vendor offered a sneak peek at a system on a chip WiMAX solution that supports nomadic capabilities...
Mobile WiMAX in rural America unlikely
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The mobile broadband revolution won't be hitting the countryside anytime soon, but there is still plenty of opportunity for its fixed wireless cousin...
WiMAX meets reality
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX and WiMAX-like solutions are finally getting beyond all the hype to address real-world applications, though carriers still have to consider what lies ahead on their road maps...
