Networking giant Cisco said Tuesday that it has agreed to spend $330m on the acquisition of WiMAX kit maker Navini Networks. Texas-based Navini develops smart beamforming technologies with MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) antennas, making it a strategic player in the Mobile WiMAX 802.16e space. The new addition will extend Cisco’s wifi and wifi mesh portfolios to [...]
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is expected to announce that WiMAX has been approved as a 3G IMT-2000 standard on Friday. The move will allow WiMAX deployments to occupy globally allocated frequency bands and complement or compete with other 3G technologies. The agreement is understood to have been reached in an ITU meeting held late [...]
US vendor Motorola said Monday that it has a major WiMAX infrastructure contract with Taiwanese operator Far EasTone (FET). FET, which holds around a 33 per cent share of the local mobile market, is also a key player in the Taiwanese government’s M-Taiwan project – an initiative to create a standards compliant environment supporting services, [...]
The global telecoms industry is on the cusp of major change, with operators fast approaching decision time regarding their 4G strategies. According to a study released by ABI Research this week, the critical choice to be made is whether to go down the WiMAX or the LTE (Long Term Evolution) route. Already mobile WiMAX 802.16e [...]
WiMAX-enabled devices will be coming to town next year, according to a pact made between chip giant Intel and Nokia/Nokia Siemens Networks on Wednesday. The trio announced that they are testing interoperability across Intel’s forthcoming WiMAX silicon for laptops and mobile devices, Nokia WiMAX devices and NSN network kit. Nokia is to use Intel’s WiMAX [...]
Mega vendor Alcatel-Lucent said Monday it has won a contract to deploy what it claims to be Germany’s first commercial WiMAX network – based on the 802.16e 2005 standard. The network will be deployed in the Saar region for VSE Net, a regional service provider based in Saarbrucken, with collaboration from Inquam Broadband – a [...]
Although the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will not release an official definition of wireless 4G technology until 2008/2009, there are already clear contenders for the designation, according to industry analyst In-Stat. The primary 4G technologies expected to be identified in the ITU’s IMT-Advanced requirements are Long Term Evolution (LTE), Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), and IEEE [...]
No doubt there were high fives all round at the WiMAX Forum headquarters Thursday morning, as the disruptive technology won the backing of Vodafone. The industry body, committed to promoting and certifying interoperable WiMAX products, announced that Vodafone has become a principal member of the forum, lending yet more credence to the assertion of the [...]
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