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First Commercial Global Roaming Trials
Announced!
Wimax Forum
June 8, 2009
WiMAX Forum announces the first-ever commercial WiMAX interoperability
and roaming trials.
At its second annual Global Congress 2009, the WiMAX Forum announced
that 14 ecosystem leaders are participating in the first-ever commercial
WiMAX interoperability and roaming trials. These leaders include Aicent,
Alvarion, Bridgewater Systems, Cisco, Clearwire, Comfone, DigitalBridge
Communications, Intel, iPass, Juniper Networks, MACH, Motorola,
Syniverse and Transaction Network Services. |
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"This trial
represents an end-to-end test of roaming over live WiMAX networks and
will provide a baseline for establishing roaming services and agreements
for WiMAX worldwide," said Ron Resnick, president and chairman, the
WiMAX Forum. "Roaming with interoperability is important in order to
expand the availability of WiMAX services by enabling users to
automatically access networks when traveling outside the geographical
coverage area of their home network."
The commercial trial provides another platform for the WiMAX Forum to
aggressively position operators and clearinghouses to initiate
commercial roaming services which will lead to roaming worldwide.
Additionally, the WiMAX Forum provides operators and vendors with all
the information needed to understand WiMAX roaming and to launch roaming
services at www.wimaxroaming.org, including technical specifications to
follow when implementing roaming and a business agreement template to
use with other operators.
"The testing of networks and equipment on leading operator networks will
demonstrate to all WiMAX operators that they can easily provide roaming
services to their customers," said Resnick. "The goal is to demonstrate
the WiMAX standard end-to-end roaming implementation that will be
replicated by WiMAX operators and clearinghouses worldwide. This
includes WiMAX networks which support roaming services and the roaming
back office platforms which track and measure usage for operators to
correctly settle accounts with each other."
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