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June 11, 2010

WiMAX Forum Announces the Release of the First WiMAX Forum Certified MIMO 2.3 GHz profile Mobile Products

By Calvin Azuri
TMCnet Contributor

The WiMAX (News - Alert) Forum has announced the release of the first Mobile WiMAX products which will receive the WiMAX Forum Certified Seal of Approval for the MIMO 2.3 GHz profile. The completion of the 2.3 GHz certification testing profile will allow the WiMAX Forum (News - Alert) designated labs to accept tri-band (2.3, 2.5 and 3.5 GHz) products and instantly begin their certification process.
After long months of rigorous testing ensuring that each WiMAX product meets the strict WiMAX Forum interoperability and conformance standards, two base stations operating in the 2.3 GHz band from Huawei (News - Alert) and Samsung were included in the announcement.
In a release, Mr. Ron Resnick the president and chairman of the WiMAX Forum said, "I would like to congratulate Huawei and Samsung for leading the way for WiMAX Certified (News - Alert) 2.3 GHz products. This spectrum band is increasingly important with India's BWA auction currently underway. WiMAX services in India and other counties with poor broadband penetration will create new opportunities and generate economic vitality and jobs for millions of people while closing the digital divide gap in rural areas."
Tests for these recently certified products were conducted at WiMAX Forum testing labs based in China and Korea. The ADT lab in Taiwan also recently completed the construction of its 2.3 GHz test bed infrastructure and it is now fully equipped to begin testing of these submitted products.
In a release, Mr. Ed Agis the chairman of the WiMAX Forum Certification Working Group said, "The competition of the first 2.3 GHz certified products opens the door to our designated labs accepting tri-band products for certification testing. Tri-band WiMAX devices operating in the 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz frequency bands will enable true global roaming across networks with agreements in place. We expect the first tri-band products to be certified in 2010."
WiMAX operators with 2.3GHz spectrum holdings are among the fastest growing sector in the WiMAX ecosystem. As on April 2010, the WiMAX Forum has shortlisted more than 50 commercial deployments in the 2.3GHz spectrum band and around 588 complete WiMAX deployments spread in 148 countries. Till date more than 205 Mobile WiMAX products have received their certification.

Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Calvin’s articles, please visit his columnist page.


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