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WiMAX ForumTM
Certifies Additional Profile for Fixed WiMAX Products
WiMAX Forum
March 23, 2006
Forum Announces Successful 3rd
Plugfest in France with ETSI and Participation of 10 Equipment Suppliers
Beaverton, OR -- The WiMAX Forum today announced the latest fixed
wireless broadband network products to achieve the designation of WiMAX
Forum CertifiedTM based on the defined Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD)
system profile operating in the 3.5GHz frequency spectrum. The WiMAX
Forum member companies and products to complete certification and
interoperability testing include Airspan’s MacroMAX base station and
EasyST subscriber station solution, Axxcelera’s ExcelMax base station,
SEQUANS Communications’ SQN1010-RD subscriber station solution, Siemens’
WayMAX@vantage base station and subscriber station solutions, and
Wavesat’s miniMAX subscriber station solution.
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WiMAX Forum’s certification laboratory, CETECOM Spain, worked with each
WiMAX equipment supplier to conduct an extensive series of stringent and
extensive test procedures, consisting of protocol conformance, radio
conformance and interoperability testing. To date, 14 fixed WiMAX
products have received the WiMAX Forum Certified seal in the two months
since the program first started certifying equipment.
“By achieving the certifications of FDD profile equipment, the WiMAX
Forum and our members continue to make significant progress in
delivering products that help network operators build out their fixed
WiMAX networks,” said Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum. “In
addition to our hard work on the certification front, I am also quite
pleased with the outcome of our continued collaboration with ETSI and
WiMAX system suppliers in the latest Plugfest in France, which provides
essential experience and intelligence to advance how our member
companies progress from the prototype stage to commercial system
development stage.”
3rd WiMAX Forum Plugfest Completed
The WiMAX Forum also announced today the successful completion of the
3rd WiMAX Forum Plugfest, which was a week-long interoperability event
held March 12-19 at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute
(ETSI) headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France. These Plugfests provide
WiMAX Forum member companies – equipment vendors and network operators
and their technical staffs – the opportunity to test and interwork their
respective pre-certified products and equipment in advance of final
testing.
There were 10 WiMAX Forum member equipment suppliers that participated
in the latest Plugfest event, including Airspan Networks Inc., Axxcelera
Broadband Wireless, Delta Networks, Inc., MITAC, picoChip Inc, Proxim
Wireless Corporation, Redline Communications, Sequans Communications,
Vcom Inc., and Wavesat Inc. In addition, Invenova Corporation
contributed to the event with their protocol conformance tester.
Airspan Networks, Inc.(www.airspan.com)
“3.5 GHz, 3.5 MHz FDD certification is important to Airspan as it
represents the duplex and band combination where the majority of
business is,” said Eric Stonestrom, President and CEO of Airspan
Networks. “The certification of our high-performance MacroMAX Base
Station and our Indoor WiMAX Modem, called EasyST, provides operators
the opportunity to deploy services based on Indoor, self-installed WiMAX
Forum Certified™ equipment.”
Axxcelera Broadband Wireless (www.axxcelera.com)
“We are pleased to be certified for the 3.5 GHz FDD profile,” said Jamal
Hamdani, CEO of Axxcelera Broadband Wireless. “We are in the process of
certifying the balance of our broad portfolio of TDD and FDD Base
Stations, Access Points and Subscriber products for the 3.5 GHz and 5
GHz brands.”
SEQUANS Communications (www.sequans.com)
“Sequans is proud to now have reference designs certified in TDD and FDD,”
said Bertrand Debray, VP Engineering at Sequans Communications. “We will
continue to support the standards and certification effort with our
upcoming IEEE 802.16e mobile WiMAX solutions.”
Wavesat (www.wavesat.com)
"We are delighted that Wavesat’s miniMAX CPE design is among the first
to achieve certification for the 3.5GHz FDD profile. Our product is now
fully certified for both TDD and FDD profiles,” said Frank Draper, vice
president of sales at Wavesat. "By successfully achieving certification,
we enable our partners to go to market faster with low-cost and
high-quality WiMAX CPEs"
About the WiMAX Forum
The WiMAX Forum is an industry-led, non-profit corporation formed to
help promote and certify the compatibility and interoperability of
broadband wireless products using the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN
wireless MAN specifications. The Forum’s goal is to accelerate the
introduction of these devices into the marketplace. WiMAX Forum
CertifiedTM products will be fully interoperable and support
Metropolitan Broadband Fixed, Portable and Mobile Applications. For more
information about the WiMAX Forum and its activities, please visit
www.wimaxforum.org.
WiMAX ForumTM and WiMAX Forum CertifiedTM are registered trademarks of
the WiMAX Forum.
About ETSI
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute – ETSI – based in
the south of France, is an independent not-for-profit organization whose
mission is to produce telecommunications standards for today and for the
future. Within Europe, it is responsible for standardization in
telecommunication, broadcasting and certain aspects of information
technology, and it is officially recognized by the European Union (EU)
and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) as the region’s competent
body for standardization in these areas.
ETSI unites nearly 700 Members from five continents, and brings together
manufacturers, network operators, service providers, administrations,
regulators, research bodies and users – providing a forum in which all
the key players can contribute. For more information, please visit
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