Motorola Ships 10,000th WiMAX Access Point Base Site

Motorola, Inc., announced recently that it’s Home & Networks Mobility business, a solution which aims to accelerate the delivery of a personal media experience at home and while on move, enabling consumers to access customized content always, anywhere, and at anytime, has successfully completed shipping its 10,000th 802.16e WiMAX Access Point, or “WAP,” base site.

 

“This shipment milestone is further evidence of the success we’ve achieved in delivering mobile WiMAX,” Bruce Brda, senior vice president and general manager Wireless Networks, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility, said.

 

“Motorola, the No. 1 market share leader in WiMAX, is committed to 802.16e mobile WiMAX and to the future path of WiMAX 802.16m. In fact, Motorola is on the IEEE 802.16 Task Group m Leadership Team and helped design the 16m standard,” Brda added.

 

According to company officials, this milestone shipment represents a more than 40 percent compound annual growth rate, or “CAGR,” since Motorola’s first WiMAX access points were shipped in 2007, and adds to Motorola’s continued momentum in delivering WiMAX solutions and winning contracts with operators world wide.

 

Motorola’s WAP portfolio is said to cover a variety of solutions designed to meet an operator’s specific needs for coverage and capacity. Moreover, the company statement also revealed that all of its new generation of the WAP product line is designed with improved energy efficiency in mind to be eco-friendly and reduce operating costs.

 

In the 2.3GHz, 2.5GHz, and 3.5GHz the models currently shipping include the WAP 400 with 2x2 antenna technology and the WAP 450 - a higher power 2x2 unit. Added to this, the WAP 800 in the 3.5GHz has the versatility to support both coverage and capacity models with 4x8 beam-forming antenna technology.

 

The recently announced 4x4 WAP 650, which is an easy field upgrade from the WAP 450, is said to enable operators with 30% reduction in total cost of ownership compared to average 2x2 base stations.

 

Motorola has been a pioneer in developing mobile WiMAX since 2005. The company’s WiMAX solutions portfolio includes access, core, devices, network management and services. Motorola’s best-in-class quality assurance processes, along with a track record of WiMAX commercial deployments worldwide, offer service providers the confidence that they are getting a high-quality, reliable solution.

 

It claims to currently focus on the launch the next iteration of this mobile broadband technology, 802.16m - also known as WiMAX Release 2, with continued development of its WiMAX portfolio.

 

Reportedly, Motorola has more than 35 WiMAX contracts in every region of the world, in 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz, and 3.5 GHz, including the recently announced deal with Imagine in Ireland.