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The past year has seen a flurry of activity related to bringing the next generation of broadband wireless technology, commonly referred to as Mobile WiMAX, to the market. Based on the IEEE 802.16e standard for local and metropolitan area networks, released in 2005, Mobile WiMAX promises wireless data connections...

This month, Microwave Journal talks with Bryan Sayler, Senior Vice-President and General Manager at ETS-Lindgren Test and Measurement Division, about his company’s membership in the WiMAX Forum. We also discuss the company's new WiMAX™ RPT Test System designed to provide detailed information on the radiated transmit and receive performance...

According to the latest edition of the WiMAXCounts Quarterly Report from Maravedis ( www.maravedis-bwa.com ), the global BWA/WiMAX subscriber base increased by 350,000 in the fourth quarter of 2007, reaching a total of 1,728,000 subscribers. “Even with an increase of more than 20% in WiMAX subscribers in the last...

Elektrobit (EB) and NextWave Wireless Inc. are collaborating to bring one of the first commercial mobile WiMAX handset reference designs to the global market for wide-scale deployment. Together, the partners will provide wireless device manufacturers the opportunity to bring mobile WiMAX products to market faster and with lower development...

DragonWave Inc. , a global supplier of next-generation wireless networks, announced Horizon Duo, the latest addition to its Horizon portfolio of native Ethernet radios. Horizon Duo delivers industry-leading capacity of up to 1.6 Gbps per link and lowest-cost-per-bit performance for wireless carriers offering increasingly bandwidth-intensive WiMAX and 4G services....

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Beceem Communications announced they will extend their WiMAX collaboration to include Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 Protocol Test. Agilent and Beceem will ensure that customers can confidently use Agilent protocol test systems with Beceem's Mobile WiMAX reference designs. Both companies will verify that their designs are...

Sprint Nextel may be one of the largest wireless network providers, but the growth of new unlimited plans, including its own Sprint Everything plan—not to mention its WiMAX network—is putting continuous constraint on its backhaul network. Like its wireless brethren, Sprint Nextel’s default backhaul strategy has been to rent...

WiMAX, a transmission technology with a seemingly always cloudy future, is still a bright spot in the Sprint Nextel broadband wireless landscape, Dan Hesse, the company’s increasingly famous president-CEO said during a first-day keynote address at CTIA Wireless 2008. “WiMAX is not slideware,” Hesse said. “We believe the market...

WiMAX and LTE, especially when using bandwidth-efficient configurations like bi-directional Multiple-In, Multiple-Out (MIMO) and beamforming, promise a near nirvana of high- speed data possibilities. They also promise a potential nightmare of configuration issues that must be thoroughly tested to make sure everything performs up to snuff. MIMO increases network...

Telsima, a small Silicon Valley-based WiMAX player has nailed what is certainly its biggest deal and could, considering the number of potential end customers, be the biggest WiMAX deal ever. The company said that Tata Communications has launched broadband wireless services to about 5,000 users based on its WiMAX...