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ZTE: The OutsiderZTE is a mystery. Nobody in this industry is quite sure what the Chinese vendor is up to. It and its fellow countryman, Huawei, have had substantial success in branching outside of their home markets, selling telecom equipment at lower margins to operators in developing countries and even some in the developed world. But otherwise ZTE remains opaque--a shadowy threat from the east. This article is part six of a six-part online series... Samsung: The Teacher’s PetLike the kid who brings the apple to class and raises his hand at every question, Samsung is doing everything conceivable to draw attention to its WiMAX portfolio. While other vendors set commercial availability dates for their WiMAX base stations, Samsung points to the commercial WiBro network up and running in Korea. This article is part five of a six-part online series... Alcatel: The OverachieverIf WiMAX were a science fair, Alcatel is striving to take first place. It doesn’t just want the ribbon and the pat on the back, it wants to run away with the prize, creating the perfect project that judges will moon over while the rest of the kids shuffle awkwardly in front of their paper-mache volcanoes and electromagnets. This article is part four of a six-part online series... Alvarion: The PipsqueakThe run-away leader in WiMAX’s first, fixed-wireless iteration, Alvarion has a global market share of 81%, according to Sky Light Research. But now that Tier 1 infrastructure vendors have chosen to enter the market with Mobile WiMAX products, Alvarion has suddenly relocated to a very big pond, where it’s not only a small fish--it’s swimming against barracuda. This article is part three of a six-part online series... Nortel: The Lab RatNortel Networks is aching for a rumble. Or, to use Nortel’s new WiMAX general manager Peter MacKinnon’s more domestic imagery, it’s ready to pit its WiMAX gear against any other vendors in a “competitive bake-off” to see whose is superior. Part two of a six-part online series... Motorola: The College BoyIf any vendor can claim to have momentum on Mobile WiMAX, it’s Motorola. Not only did it come away with a major piece of Sprint’s multibillion-dollar deployment, it’s guaranteed itself a sizable slot of the wireless ISP business with its investment in Clearwire. For good measure it’s even landed a few smaller WiMAX contracts worldwide, including one for a national broadband network in Pakistan. Part one in a six part online series... |
advertisement NEWS FROM WIMAX WORLD USA 2006WiMAX World briefs: Proxim sells fixed WiMAX network in TaiwanAirspan Networks is commencing shipments this quarter of its new HiperMAX base station supporting both fixed and mobile iterations of WiMAX... WiMAX World: Sprint targets Chicago, D.C.BOSTON--Sprint is pitting its two initial vendors against one another in a two-city market deployment, assigning Motorola to build the Mobile WiMAX network in its hometown of Chicago and Samsung to the nation’s capitol... WiMAX World: Resnick reveals IPR findingsBOSTON--WiMAX Forum President Ron Resnick, in a Thursday morning keynote at WiMAX World here, said a study the WiMAX Forum commissioned to determine how the intellectual property rights for WiMAX technology were distributed throughout the industry found that no single company is in a dominant patent ownership position... WiMAX World: Nokia unveils WiMAX plansBOSTON--Nokia today shined some light through its until-now opaque WiMAX strategy, revealing a new base station based on its modular Flexi equipment line and a new initiative to pursue Mobile WiMAX handsets focused on a data centric applications... WiMAX World: Nortel launches MIMO base stationBOSTON--Nortel Networks commercially launched its smart-antenna powered base station at WiMAX World this week, saying it eschewed the first round of WiMAX Forum certification in order to focus on the more advanced wave of next-generation WiMAX technologies next summer... WiMAX World: The quiet one speaksBOSTON--Broadband wireless service provider Clearwire has, by extension but also by its own design, acquired the reclusive reputation of its founder, Craig McCaw. But, with an increasingly aggressive market rollout and extroverted partners like Motorola and Intel, it has no place left to hide... WiMAX World: Navini mixes beamforming, MIMOBOSTON--Navini isn’t taking sides in the smart antenna debate. While other vendors tout their Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) and beamforming antenna technologies, Navini is incorporating both technologies into its new Mobile WiMAX gear... WiMAX World: Soma to use Sequans chipsBOSTON--Broadband wireless equipment vendor Soma Networks announced today--while 2006 WiMAX World pre-conference workshops were going in advance of tomorrow's show opening--that it will integrate 802.16e-2005 chipsets from Sequans Communications into its Mobile WiMAX products... Fujitsu does WiMAX infrastructureFujitsu is expanding its interest in WiMAX from chipsets to a complete radio access infrastructure line, unveiling today a Mobile WiMAX base station portfolio targeted at the North American market... WiMAX: A vision for personal broadbandConcluding a recent series of vendor profiles on TelephonyOnline.com A new catchphrase has surfaced in the industry to describe WiMAX: personal broadband.... A TELEPHONY PODCAST: WIMAX WORLD 2006
A Telephony Podcast: WiMAX World 2006Telephony editors were on site at WiMAX World in Boston last week to cover new developments in the broadband wireless sector. Hear excerpts from live interviews with industry analysts and the WiMAX Forum about recent developments in the WiMAX community and what the future holds... WIMAX WORLD COMMENTARY
The WiMAX race has begunWiMAX World kicks off today here, and the titillation in the air is just powerful. No other technology has been hyped more than Mobile WiMAX in recent years, but for the first time the exhibitors and other assorted boosters... Calling a WiMAX winnerThe Mobile WiMAX race is on. There's still a question as to how big the potential market for the technology will be, but a lot of big vendors seem to be betting that it will be huge. ... TELEPHONY'S COMPLETE GUIDE TO WIMAX 2006
The Complete Guide to WiMAX 2006Read Telephony’s Complete Guide to WiMAX 2006 and learn how carriers and vendors are improving the WiMAX user experience through trials and commercial rollouts. Plus, read about the evolution of mobile WiMAX, deployment strategies, managing quality of service issues and how to establish WiMAX solutions for today's business models... |
