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Jun 9, 2011 phones

The 4G revolution started with a simpleton idea: cheap broadband Internet approach – anytime and anywhere – for everyone. Over the next X the pursuit of this approximation hastened the inevitable collision of the internet and telephony industries, and pushed forward a new exercise set of technologies that ar changing the way the world connects. Now WiMAX technology is used by consumers in 150 countries, and is gaining espousal in upright industries such as aviation and Smart Grid.

In June of 2001, a number of engineering corporations and overhaul providers formed the WiMAX Forum to accelerate wide-scale borrowing of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) technology. The new formation was founded with terzetto primary election goals in mind: establish standards and build profiles for equipment that ensured interoperability; employment with government agencies to liberation spectrum; establish and grow an ecosystem nurturing seller introduction and carrier deployment to encourage mass adoption of WiMAX™ technologies.

“The WiMAX Forum was built around the approximation of open standards, free people share-out of information, low patent of invention usage fees and coaction across the ecosystem,” said Ron Resnick, prexy and chair of the WiMAX Forum. “Our initiation members were trying to fundamentally change the telecom industry by introducing an all-IP global standards-based radio broadband technology to meet the pent up demands of consumers and allow for more choice of services and devices. The relocation away from the traditional telephone business-modelling built on voice-centric architecture to an internet model based on ubiquitous information-centric networks is a revolution that the entire world will benefit from.”

“WiMAX enables innovative complimentary data stage business modelling based on surface retail, low IPR and wide bandwidth spectrum apportioning globally service 4G, rural broadband, backhaul and Smart Grid deployments,” said Mo Shakouri, Corporate Vice President, Innovation and Marketing for Alvarion, “and this is a good matter for consumers and businesses across the world. Alvarion would like to thank the WiMAX Forum for its documentation, and congratulate it on this milepost.”

Key Milestones for the WiMAX Forum

For ten days the WiMAX Forum worked to documentation its rank as the industry grew from its fledgeling land to encompass nearly 600 WiMAX deployments in 150 countries today:

Product Standards – In June 2004, terzetto days after the organization’s inception, the WiMAX Forum released its first base criterion based on IEEE’s 802.16-2004. In January 2006, an evolved WiMAX criterion based on IEEE’s 802.16e was released, allowing equipment manufacturers to twist their attention to mobile applications. In October 2010, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) recognized IEEE’s next criterion, 802.16m, as ace of only two IMT-Advanced technologies. IMT-Advanced requirements demand groundbreaking speeds and mental ability. 802.16m exceeds its requirements, offering as much as 180 Mbit/s of aggregate downlink throughput per site exploitation a 20 MHz TDD distribution channel in ITU’s real-earth microcellular organization model, with further documentation for nearly 2500 VoIP users per web site. Depending on designing goals, antenna configurations, and spectrum availability, significantly higher dates rates can be enabled. A trial of 802.16m in October, 2010 by UQ Communications and Samsung reached download speeds in overindulgence of 330Mbps.

“Utilizing WiMAX technology, UQ launched mobile broadband services in July 2009,” stated Akio Nozaka, President of UQ Communications. “WiMAX engineering’s high speed capabilities gave us a competitive advantage over other 3G operators and the number of our subscribers has quickly grown to 1 meg in just two days. I congratulate the WiMAX Forum on its 10th day of remembrance and believe the WiMAX industry will continue to hold our momentum leaving into the future.”

Certification and Interoperability Testing – In August 2005, the WiMAX Forum opened its first certification lab with AT4 Wireless and the first base WiMAX Forum Certified product was released in January 2006. Today, the WiMAX Forum has sestet partner labs offering authentication testing to its member companies, including locations in China, Korea, Malaysia, the United States and two labs in Taiwan. To appointment WiMAX Forum Designated Certification Labs have completed authentication for more than 265 products including smartphones, notebooks, netbooks, dongles, base stations and more.

The Future of WiMAX

At the start of 2011 over 823 million people were covered by WiMAX networks, and by the end of 2011 the WiMAX Forum estimates that number to step-up to more than ace one thousand million people. Likewise the WiMAX subscriber base is also increasing rapidly, with overhaul providers such as Clearwire and UQ Communications experiencing exponential emergence. In 1Q 2011 Clearwire grew its subscriber base by 1.8 million subscribers, while UQ Communications has grown in the last 6 months by almost 300%. Maravedis Research recently announced that at the oddment of Q1 2011 there were 17.25 million WiMAX subscribers globally. According to Infonetics Research, in 2010 the WiMAX equipment market grew by 85%, and according to marketplace intelligence activity firm Infiniti Research, the WiMAX equipment market will reaching $6.9 Billion in 2014.

“I would like to congratulate the WiMAX Forum on its 10th day of remembrance,” stated Dr. Cheng-Wen Wu, General Director of ITRI/ICL & VP of ITRI. “Taiwanese vendors volition ship an estimated five hundred million USD worth of WiMAX devices in 2011. We are promoting innovative applications in disaster recovery, high speed rail, and smart grid. The Taiwanese ecosystem continues to stand rear WiMAX and we are proud of our a people’s part to the manufacture.”

In addition to the traditional telecommunications industry, other exciting opportunities for WiMAX vendors ar emerging in industry verticals such as aviation, education, energy, government activity, healthcare and more. Examples include:

* Aviation – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have chosen WiMAX as their technology of pick for airdrome terrestrial communication theory services. Over the next five years WiMAX engineering volition be deployed in 2,000 airports in the U.S. alone.

* Education – Universities around the globe are deploying WiMAX to cover their campuses and local communities. Northern Michigan University, located in Marquette, Mich., created a WiMAX network that covers about 40 public square miles over rugged terrain in the rural Upper Peninsula of Michigan. NMU’s WiMAX meshing not only enhances the educational capabilities of students and employees, but also the educational opportunities for K-12 schools within the network’s boundaries as well as the firing, law, usefulness and city workers for several cities and townships in Marquette County.

* Energy – Utilities, interested in owning and operating their own Smart Grid networks, ar using WiMAX technology. In Australia SP Ausnet deployed the world’s first base WiMAX-based smart metering network. The network has more than 680,000 WiMAX-connected smarting meters capable of delivering C metre population read within 2 minute periods and 15,000 on-demand reads per mean solar day.

* Government – Cities and counties ar replacing expensive T1 lines with WiMAX technologies to lower costs and improve services. The metropolis of Houston is building a 640- public square-mile WiMAX network as part of a $6.4 million dollar mark project to allow remote control management of its traffic organization, automatic pistol readings of water system meters and provide Internet approach to underserved communities.

“Airspan believes that WiMAX today offers the same unique radio communication proposal as it did 10 years ago when we helped found the organization,” said Paul Senior, Chief Technology Officer of Airspan. “Over the shoemaker’s last decade we have seen WiMAX develop into a mature, successful and fully interoperable technology that has influenced and changed the lives of millions of users and enterprises across the Earth. The WiMAX Forum has been instrumental in its documentation of a standardized engineering for operators as well as specialized markets such as Smart Grids. Airspan has been a dedicated and contributing member to the WiMAX Forum and is happy to take this opportunity to wish the Forum a happy 10th Anniversary.”

“The WiMAX industry will continue to innovate and improve the technology to filling communications needs that we tin’t even begin to imagine today,” Resnick said. “I’m proud of the role the WiMAX Forum has played and volition continue to swordplay in the future as we evolve with the engineering to meet those new industry demands.”

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