Alcatel Alsthom said it has entered into a strategic alliance with Intel Corp. to define, standardize, develop, integrate and market WiMAX technology.The alliance hopes to deliver solutions by the second half of next year. The companies said they will target both urban and rural...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Alcatel Alsthom said it has entered into a strategic alliance with Intel Corp. to define, standardize, develop, integrate and market WiMAX technology.The alliance hopes to deliver solutions by the second half of next year.The companies said they will target both urban and...
ATLANTA-Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group said it plans to develop a complete solution for WiMAX radio networks, which will be available in the second half of next year.The solution will include base stations based on the IEEE 802.16d standard for fixed wireless broadband...
CANNES-Intel Corp. has unveiled the details of its next-generation cellular and baseband processors, which include a dual-mode UMTS solution.The family of processors, which will be known as Hermon, aim to bring a coexistence of multiple broadband wireless technologies and a multimode reference platform for...
InnerWireless Inc. will market its InnerMobile in-building wireless distribution system to wireless service providers to enable wireless communications throughout the Sears Tower in Chicago. The wireless system will cover the skyscraper's 110 floors, which encompass 3.5 million square feet of office and retail space...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-OFDM solution developer Wavesat Inc. said it has chosen Atmel Inc.'s product to design and make what it calls the first WiMax 802.16d chips."Using our .18 micron SiliconCity mixed-signal standard cell library for this complex design will offer Wavesat and its customers...
Impatience with the standards process is tempting some companies to market their products before certification, especially in the wireless local area networks arena."Recent test data released by the Wi-Fi Alliance indicates that wireless LAN interoperability and performance continue to be an issue for products...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The WiMax Forum, which certifies broadband wireless access product interoperability, said its membership has leaped from 28 to 67 members in five months, including marquee names like Siemens, Covad and ZTE Corp.It also announced new members like Axxelera Broadband Wireless, Beamreach Networks,...
Even with the promise of a tech recovery and emergence of new applications for wireless gadgets aimed at free-spending teenagers, information-starved road warriors and the rest of us, 2004 is apt to be no more than a sexed-up version of the year that was....
OSTERY BAY, N.Y.-A new study finds the business market for fixed broadband wireless access will be much bigger than previously thought, with 16 percent of the market in 2008 covered by small- and medium-sized enterprises."ABI acknowledges that the residential subscriber is the key target...
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-Spending on cellular infrastructure will trump WiMAX either of the 802.16 or 802.20 variety, according to a report by Allied Business Intelligence."Though WiMAX will play a significant role in the industry, the markets for traditional cellular networks will continue to dominate due to...
Intel Corp. this week announced plans to build a $375 million assembly and test plant in western China's Sichuan province and a research and development center for digital home and wireless communications in South Korea.The company said the plant will create 675 jobs, expected...
While most wireless operators are in the midst of launching third-generation wireless data services using traditional base stations over licensed airwaves, an increasing number of smaller, independent companies have begun deploying high-speed wireless data services using unlicensed spectrum and both proprietary and standards-based technologies...
It has been just a few years since wireless broadband was all but declared dead. But the industry instead has made a small recovery.Wireless broadband service attracted a lot of attention from its dawn in the late 1990s until about 2000, as carriers were...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The WiMAX Forum, an organization dedicated to the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN wireless MAN specifications, announced it has 18 new member companies and has completed initial system profiles for the interoperability of products operating in the 2 GHz to 11 GHz...
