MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—VeriSign Inc. announced an agreement with the WiMAX Forum to become the official security provider for the 802.16 standard. In a joint statement, VeriSign and the WiMAX Forum said the partnership will promote equipment compatibility and interoperability by creating a device-authentication standard...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Wireless broadband developer Alvarion Ltd. and information-technology vendor IBM Corp. announced plans to jointly develop and deliver Internet Protocol-based wireless networks to municipalities and public safety agencies. The companies said they have been piloting their wireless network offerings in Fresno, Calif., supplying...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Wireless broadband developer Alvarion Ltd. and information-technology vendor IBM Corp. announced plans to jointly develop and deliver Internet Protocol-based wireless networks to municipalities and public safety agencies. The companies said they have been piloting their wireless network offerings in Fresno, Calif., supplying...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Wireline voice and high speed Internet service provider TDS Metrocom said it has started the commercial rollout of a broadband wireless network in Madison, Wis. TDS Metrocom is part of Telephone and Data Systems Telecommunications Corp., as is cellular carrier U.S. Cellular...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Alvarion Ltd. announced that its BreezeACCESS VL is the wireless broadband base station muscle behind Rioplex Wireless' 5,000-square-mile deployment in Texas targeting high-capacity consumers and businesses using unlicensed spectrum. Rioplex is an end-to-end wireless operator that owns its backbone and last-mile networks...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Alvarion Ltd. announced that its BreezeACCESS VL is the wireless broadband base station muscle behind Rioplex Wireless' 5,000-square-mile deployment in Texas targeting high-capacity consumers and businesses using unlicensed spectrum. Rioplex is an end-to-end wireless operator that owns its backbone and last-mile networks...
MOUNTAINVIEW, Calif.-Alvarion Ltd. is supplying its BreezeMAX 3500 system to France Telecom affiliate Ikatel, which offers broadband data service in Mali.The deployment includes hundreds of customer premise equipment based on Intel's WiMAX chip that will create a WiMAX network for residential and business users...
BOSTON-Product announcements are streaming out of Boston as the WiMAX World 2005 show gets underway. First up, Motorola Inc. is set to demonstrate the capabilities of its MOTOwi4 Canopy solutions. The product is based on Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem architecture and delivers Voice over...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.
Nortel Networks Ltd. announced its market strategy for WiMAX product development, saying it has formed alliances with Intel Corp. for mobile WiMAX and Airspan Networks Inc. for fixed WiMAX development. Nortel said these new alliances will complement WiMAX work already under way with LG...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Wireless broadband solutions provider Alvarion Ltd. said it is filling commercial orders and shipping its WiMAX-ready BreezeMAX PRO customer premises equipment, which includes Intel's PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface chip. The company said BreezeMAX is Alvarion's WiMAX-ready platform that uses OFDM technology for...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Wireless broadband solutions provider Alvarion Ltd. said it is filling commercial orders and shipping its WiMAX-ready BreezeMAX PRO customer premises equipment, which includes Intel's PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface chip.The company said BreezeMAX is Alvarion's WiMAX-ready platform that uses OFDM technology for advanced...
TEL AVIV, Israel-T-Com, the fixed line unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, is running a WiMAX field trial, offering wireless broadband services to about 100 German customers previously unreachable by traditional DSL services.T-Com is using Alvarion's WiMAX-ready BreezeMAX 3500 system for the trial, which is...
Following are changes in wireless company ratings reported by financial services and investment banking firms this week.Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. remain on CreditWatch with positive implications based on operating and financial improvement. Raymond James downgraded Crown...
Following are ratings changes and financial information on wireless companies from financial services and investment banking firms announced this week. Nortel, AAT, UTStarcom, Alvarion, Intrado and others mentioned.Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised its corporate credit rating on tower company AAT Communications Corp. to...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Alvarion Ltd., which provides wireless broadband solutions, extended its BreezeMAX products to include 2.3 GHz and 2.5 GHz-2.7 GHz frequency bands for North America.Field trials of the BreezeMAX 2300 for WCS 2.3 GHz functionality will be offered at the end of this...
Broadband service provider Speakeasy launched what it called "WiMAX-class" fixed wireless broadband service covering parts of downtown Seattle. The service, which Speakeasy said will expand later this year to cover all of Seattle, uses Alvarion's BreezeAccess infrastructure deployed at selected sites across the city,...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Wireless broadband solution company Alvarion Ltd. introduced a WiMAX-ready micro base station for its BreezeMAX system.The base station includes a standalone module that connects to an outdoor radio. The product offers high-sector capacity, spectral efficiency, advanced quality of service to support voice,...
DALLAS-Alcatel Alsthom will add Alvarion's WiMAX 802.16 solution to its worldwide reach and network integration capability.Both companies also said they have been selected to run WiMAX deployments in Europe, including the French broadcast service provider, TDF, and the Paris public transport agency known as...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. is teaming with Alvarion to provide converged networking technology that will allow carriers to complement existing third-generation and wireline networks with WiMAX, the companies announced Tuesday.Lucent said it will integrate WiMAX technology based on the IEEE 802.16 standard from...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Broadband solutions provider Alvarion Ltd. said it has developed a mobile WiMAX solution based on the 802.16e standard with plans for a demonstration system within a year.The company said it is targeting the 2006 launch to coincide with the availability of WiMAX-enabled...
Global Signal Inc. said its board of directors has increased its cash dividend for the fourth quarter to 40 cents per share of common stock from 37 cents in the third quarter of 2004. The dividend is payable Jan. 20. The tower player owns...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Wireless broadband company Alvarion Ltd. announced it completed its $40 million acquisition of wireless base station company InterWAVE Communications International Ltd. The closing ends a somewhat tenuous relationship between the two companies.Alvarion announced its intent to acquire InterWAVE in July, but then...
Rural wireless provider Bluegrass Cellular said it will deploy a commercial push-to-talk service using Kodiak Network's circuit-switch based Real-time Exchange system across its 34-county coverage area late next month. Beyond basic PTT functionality, Kodiak said its RTX system includes user-defined presence capabilities, conferencing, and...
