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Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world's leading provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband solutions, has announced that it has been chosen by the Caribbean's largest mobile operator, Digicel Group, as its strategic partner for WiMAX in the Cayman Islands. Alvarion's IEEE.802.16e 4MotionTM Mobile WiMAX solution was selected to advance...

Nortel has fast become one of the industry's most scathing critics of 3G. Since selling its UMTS assets to rival firm Alcatel Lucent last year, the Canadian vendor has pounced on any opportunity to cast 3G as a vastly inferior technology to mobile WiMAX, in which it is investing...

Redline Communications and Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices are privately testing the interoperability of their WiMAX Forum-certified broadband wireless products, the two companies have announced. Designed to augment interoperability testing already conducted by the Forum, the private testing is being conducted under the auspices of the Redline Ecosystem...

The choice of Samsung, Motorola and Nokia to provide Sprint Nextel with its WiMAX network was a clear victory for vendors that could offer infrastructure and devices, and sent the rivals lacking this advantage scurrying to create their own ‘ecosystems’. In the early years of a standard, interoperability tends...

Japan is known as one of the most advanced nations in adoption of advanced mobile and broadband services, and is one of the most pressurized competitive environments for operators. Its Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has made various attempts to boost the number of competitors in the market,...

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced Quantum Data's endorsement of Agilent's HDMI 1.3 compliance test software. Quantum Data invents test equipment used to identify and help solve interoperability problems between audio/visual products. "Designing our new 882E-series video test instrument would have been next to impossible without Agilent's Infiniium...

Introduction The broadband wireless industry is making tremendous progress with the evolution of fixed WiMAX technology and achieving device interoperability testing (IOT). Despite the efforts to develop a large, reliable ecosystem and to align the supply chain for accelerating broad-spread market adoption, volume shipments are not there yet. Reaching...

Aperto® Networks, builder of the world’s most advanced base stations and subscriber units for fixed, portable, and mobile WiMAX applications, today announced the availability of PacketMAX solutions that operate in the 5.8 GHz license-exempt band. The products are scheduled for commercial availability in December 2007 and will include the...

SiGe Semiconductor recently announced plans to deliver a series of radio frequency (RF) front-end modules for WiMAX systems. The new front-end modules will combine SiGe’s proven high-performance WiMAX power amplifier architecture with the company’s expertise in multi-chip module integration to deliver small devices capable of industry-leading efficiency and performance....

Redline Communications, Inc. a leading provider of standards-based WiMAX™ and broadband wireless infrastructure products and WiMAX 20/20, LLC, a broadband wireless market research and consulting firm, announced today that Redline has signed an agreement to utilize a custom version of the WiMAX 20/20 WiROI™ Business Case Tool to illustrate...