BEIJING-WiMAX is alive at the WiMAX Forum's Face-to-Face event in Beijing this week as broadband equipment companies Aperto Networks Inc., Axxcelera Broadband Wireless, Redline Communications Inc., Sequans Communications and Wavesat Inc. demonstrated their offerings. The event centered on transmissions between pre-certified TDD-based WiMAX base...
Ratification is looming for a WiMAX specification standard, and trials, products and opinions are rampant. The worldwide WiMAX market is expected to reach $3.5 billion and account for 4 percent of all broadband usage by 2010, according to a new report from idate.Growth should...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Aperto Networks, which provides WiMAX equipment, said it raised $17 million in the first tranche of series E financing. The funding was led by Canaan Partners and included participation from existing investors including JK&B Capital, Alliance Ventures, Innovacom, Tyco Ventures, Labrador Ventures and...
CHICAGO-WiMAX equipment provider Aperto Networks launched and demonstrated its PacketMAX broadband wireless portfolio this week at the SuperComm show in Chicago.The portfolio is based on an Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture chassis, said the company. Aperto plans to conduct WiMAX Forum lab certification starting next...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Entertel, a Holland-based data and telecom operator focused on the business market, launched a national rollout of business-class broadband wireless access services. The service currently is available in Rotterdam. The company plans to expand to Amsterdam and the Hague by next year.The service...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Ireland's broadband wireless access provider Leap Broadband has begun deploying 3.5 GHz systems from Aperto Networks to complement its existing 5.8 GHz PacketWave point-to-multipoint systems from Aperto, throughout metro-Dublin. "This eases our scalability as we already know the systems deployment and management processes,"...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Operator reluctance and general market confusion represent significant barriers to the success of WiMAX, according to a new report from Pyramid. Pyramid believes fixed wireless operators, which have been disappointed by over-hyped technologies in the past, lack enthusiasm for WiMAX and will...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Operator reluctance and general market confusion represent significant barriers to the success of WiMAX, according to a new report from Pyramid. Pyramid believes fixed wireless operators, which have been disappointed by over-hyped technologies in the past, lack enthusiasm for WiMAX and will...
NEW YORK-Responding to demand from carriers with heavy corporate users, Aperto Networks, Milpitas, Calif., said it has introduced commercially the PacketWave 600 Series Wireless Bridge to provide connectivity between locations up to 30 miles apart."Unlike conventional point-to-point systems on the market, our 6 MHz...
It used to be that the obstacles that prevented a fixed-wireless signal from reaching its destination were ultimately the obstacles that kept the industry's service providers from reaching all their potential customers.The creation and maturation of non-line-of-sight technology however, is changing the face of...
