WiMAX

The pace of tech acquisitions is not slowing and one area worth watching is the testing market where Ixia has recently picked up Catapult Communications to further its wireless IP performance testing strategy - especially as the company positions itself to be a leader in the LTE space. In...

By Joanie Wexler At the 4G World show in Chicago, there was a pronounced acknowledgement that it will take consolidation of equipment, network interfaces and subscriber databases to deliver on the promise of the next generation of wireless networking. The 4G environment, many agreed, will be less abou...

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By Darren Murph Pinky and the Brain were consulted, and you can rest assured they were both highly supportive of Clearwire's latest initiative. Announced today in cooperation with Russia's Yota and Japan's UQ Communications, Clearwire has banged out a memorandum of understanding with the aforesaid...

This device supports both high- and low-side LO injection architectures for 2.3GHz to 2.9GHz WCS, LTE, WiMAX, and MMDS base stations; in addition, the MAX19996A can be configured for 3.1GHz to 3.9GHz WiMAX and LTE low-side injection architectures as ...

SAI Launches 4G End-to-End LTE UE and LTE eNodeB System Technologies SAI has been a pioneer in the development of 4G wireless solutions. The launch of our new LTE software protocol stack builds on the strength of our earlier successful launch of the fixed and mobile WiMAX system technolog...

 UK By CAROLINE GABRIEL Patent pools are becoming increasingly accepted in the cellular industry, as a means of making IPR licensing fees consistent and transparent. But while WiMAX, Wi-Fi and LTE all boast pools, few expected to see one in the CDMA space, ...

 CT Infrastructure leaders are far from decided; however, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and Huawei are the early beneficiaries of the early LTE contract awards." Recent research by In-Stat found the following: - During 1Q09, there were 9 WiMAX 802.16e networks ...

Its picoArray™ family of flexible wireless processors is the leading solution for OFDMA-based network equipment, and is backed by comprehensive software support for global standards such as EDGE, HSPA, HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX, LTE, cdma2000 and GSM. ...

 CT The most promising mm-wave segment is reportedly the 71-86 GHz E-band backhaul for the expanding LTE (News - Alert), WiMAX and HSPA+ wireless networks. There will be an enormous increase in the number of 60 GHz V-band and 70/80 GHz E-band ...

As a core component of its SingleRAN solution, the fourth-generation BTS supports multi-mode radio access networking (GSM, TD-SCDMA, UMTS, LTE, CDMA and WiMAX), and incorporates green optimization and All-IP technologies, providing a truly convergent ...

 KY In this video interview with Randall Bennett at TechVi, I explain what to expect with the arrival of WiMAX, where it's going to be deployed, and how it compares with competing standard LTE. Jason Hiner is the Editor in Chief of TechRepublic. ...

 CA HSDPA can also be swapped out for LTE, mobile WiMAX or the CDMA 1X EV-DO family. The device, and other MIDs, will fit into a market in which smartphones, MIDs and netbooks will coexist, Elektrobit said. MIDs, including the iPhone, ...

 Taiwan Some WiMAX licensees in Taiwan are considering bypassing WiMAX technology and instead switching directly to Long Term Evolution (LTE), according to sources within the WiMAX segment. However, Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) stated that ...

Infrastructure leaders are far from decided; however, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and Huawei are the early beneficiaries of the early LTE contract awards.” During 1Q09, there were 9 WiMAX (News - Alert) 802.16e networks deployed worldwide, mainly in Asia ...

 New York Eight to ten telcos are preoccupied in the emerging mobile wireless services which would increasingly include 3G, WiMAX, LTE etc in future. 60000 LCOs by themselves have their own limitations of understanding of core, back bone, edge and OSS/BSS/CRM ...

 Overland Park Yesterday afternoon, the NPSTC board took similar action, with the caveat that representatives for competing technologies such as WiMAX would have 30 days to try to convince the board that LTE is not the best choice. The announcements came on the heels ...

The firm said HSPA is leading in both new 3G deployments and contract awards so far this year. There were nine WiMAX 802.16e networks deployed worldwide in the first quarter and LTE contracts have been awarded in Japan, Singapore, United States, ...

 New York Fiber cable back-haul has a lot of appeal for wireless carriers because of its ability to carry high-speed, high-capacity IP/Ethernet traffic from broadband wireless (WiMAX/LTE) cell sites. In reality, access to fiber facilities is still hard to come ...

 UK “Translate them to average capacity and you have significantly less capacity than you have with an OFDM system using MIMO. If HSPA had the same performance as WiMAX or LTE, we would not need these OFDM/MIMO technologies.” According to figures supplied ...

 UK By CAROLINE GABRIEL New technologies have their ups and downs and it is easy to attach too much significance to isolated deals or trials, but there was news about both LTE and WiMAX on Friday that suggested wider implications. For LTE, T-Mobile Austria ...

 India HSPA is an advanced version of WCDMA but basically, HSPA, which is the dominant technology in the world, is the same thing as WiMAX. The difference is whether you do Time Division or Frequency Division. I think there are people leaving WiMAX. LTE is a ...

 TX Four leading WiMAX semiconductor companies - Sequans, Beceem, GCT and Wavesat- presented their outlook for 4G networks and related silicon at the May 13th IEEE ComSoc panel session entitled, "Semiconductor Evolution to 4G: Mobile WiMAX, LTE, ...

Motorola has jumped into the embedded wireless module market, announcing plans to integrate HSPA, WiMAX and LTE into networked consumer products. The company, which has seen its handset division struggle mightily recently, said it envisions its modules ...

Powerwave's solutions include; Antennas, Base Station Solutions and Coverage Solutions that support all wireless network protocols and frequencies including Next Generation Networks (News - Alert) in 4G technology including WiMAX and LTE. ...

WiMAX, LTE and HSPA+ will all be widely deployed. As an industry, our energy needs to be focused on delivering services and applications that exceed the customer expectations. Rather than fighting, we should be learning from each other's experiences. ...

This will necessitate the investment in LTE and WiMAX to achieve the required capacity to support such an explosion in data usage, using more cost-effective IP technologies. For now thougn, the Berg team forecasts that HSPA connections will grow at a ...

To provide the highest performance for WiMAX and LTE applications, the module includes three Texas Instruments TCI6487 multicore DSPs running at 1 or 1.2GHz, as well as a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA. The high-performance DSPs mean that the card has the ...

One of the best emerging markets for upper millimeter radio vendors is backhaul on the E-band for growing LTE, WiMAX, and HSPA+ wireless networks, according to report findings. Nearly 50 times the number of 60GHz and E-Band point-to-point radios are ...

 India There are reports predicting, LTE subscriptions to grow at a rate of around 400% annually between 2010 and 2014. The competing technology for LTE, WiMAX is also growing at fast pace. Both WiMAX and LTE will sweep copper-wired-broadband or any such old ...

 UK Motorola's SON tool automatically reconfigures the network after each new cell site is installed and takes on the work of a whole team of RF planners and planners, Fred Wright, general manager of Motorola's cellular and WiMAX networks group, ...

Analog Devices' new integrated RF-to-digital baseband transceivers AD9356 and AD9357 for 4G technologies, such as WiMAX and LTE (long term evolution) are cost optimized devices. Targeted more for picocell and microcell type WiMAX and LTE base stations ...

During the company's recent conference call, Brown said Motorola was moderating its "investment in WiMAX R&D to reflect current market conditions." Brown said he didn't think of WiMAX and LTE separately because of the way the company invested in R&D ...

 DC Today, companies like AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel/Clearwire and T-Mobile USA appear to be out in front, as M2M apps like smart grids could become a key element of their upcoming 4G (LTE/WiMAX) strategy. Carriers probably recognize the huge potential ...

 UK In fact, says Fred Wright, senior VP with responsibility for WiMAX and cellular networks, Motorola will double its spending on LTE developments this year and has a new trial starting with China Mobile, for the TDD variant of the platform. ...

 DC On another topic, Ericsson has not made an investment into WiMAX. Considering the rapid pace of WiMAX deployments across the world, and the recent finalization of the technology's standard, do you think that was a good decision? ...

 UK - Caroline Gabriel This may put pressure on the WiMAX Forum also to work on an official profile for this spectrum (around 700MHz in north America and India, and 790MHz-862MHz in Europe). Some vendors, such as SOMA, already offer 802.16e equipment for 700MHz, ...

 TX We see 3G, WiMAX and LTE all as complementary technologies," says Galloway. "3G networks are available now and LTE is a future technology. We believe we will see a lot of WiMAX networks built out." With various wireless access technologies all tied ...

I don't think of WiMax and LTE separately, per se, because the way we invested in R&D and developed our architecture, there is a high level of reusability between the two investments." Motorola has been the market leader in WiMAX, racking up contracts ...

Suwon, Korea -- RFHIC Corporation, manufacturer of active RF & MW components and hybrids for wireless telecommunication markets, has released ten new low-cost SMD type 2-way-dividers/splitters/combiners for LTE and WiMAX frequencies. ...

RF Globalnet (press release), PA Maravedis is a leading research and analysis firm focusing on BWA technologies including WiMAX, LTE, 3G, TD-CDMA, and WiFi. Tonse Telecom provides market entry, custom research, investment advisory and product consulting services to wireless and ...

 UK The US deployments of LTE and WiMAX are creating new opportunities for several players to increase their presence in the major market. Another is ZTE, which already has a strong position in CDMA, but mainly in emerging economies, and which has set ...

TopNews United States  UK a whole and how it deals with Qualcomm, though Qualcomm insisted: "The terms of this agreement will not result in any change to Qualcomm's 3G (CDMA2000, WCDMA, and TD-SCDMA technologies) and 4G (LTE and WiMAX technologies) licensing revenue model. ...

 UK European allocations of spectrum for mobile broadband have so far been focusing on 2.6GHz, although most operators hope to get some low frequency bandwidth for LTE/WiMAX along with the digital dividend. The three largest Finnish operators, TeliaSonera, ...

By Chris Ziegler It gets juicier, though: Nokia is also refuting claims that it has entered into an exclusive agreement to develop a touchscreen LTE device with Verizon: "While we have not entered into any exclusive agreement for 4G touch screen device development as is being reported, we will continue...

By Darren Murph Thinking that there's only room in this town world for either WiMAX or LTE? Research firm In-Stat would love to disagree, as a new report from it asserts that both will actually live on for at least the next little while. Unsurprisingly, it's expected that mobile WiMAX will "outpace LTE ove...

But with LTE stunned, Tabesh takes the opportunity to land an uppercut which LTE was just not expecting. She says, "While WiMAX is already in deployment, new spectrum or the re-farming of wide swaths of 2G spectrum will be necessary to free up spectrum to deploy LTE and take advantage of the...

By Kevin C. Tofel I’m making that premise based on something I was told by a Sprint representative at the Baltimore WiMAX launch. I asked if overall bandwidth would suffer in places where WiMAX and EV-DO were both offered. I was told no, because he WiMAX backhaul, or the connection from the tower to the web, wa...

We need to set the record straight," he said. "LTE is not an evolution. It's a complete forklift, just like WiMAX." It has been a common misconception that, because LTE has emerged from the 3GPP, it will be backwards compatible with that body's 3G standards, or at least offer a simpler migrati...

Ayvazian noted that Yankee Group research supports Ben Wolff's assessment that WiMAX and LTE have much in common as 4G technologies, by virtue of their use of orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) modulation and advanced antenna technology such as MIMO), beam formi...

XOHM, a joint venture of Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, has lit up Baltimore as it starts its rollout of a national network. It's a promising beginning, but WiMAX faces challenges from tough financial markets and a rival technology called LTE.

In order to combat the threat from LTE, the WiMAX Forum is feverishly working with companies to develop lower-cost customer premises equipment (CPE) devices, since carrier profitability is tied to device cost. In fact, the cost of such devices should soon be in the $20-$30 range." -Rich T...

By Stacey Higginbotham That’s why chip vendors, from established players like Broadcom and NXP to startups like Wavesat and Altair, are hoping to put multiple radios onto one chip. And many of them are turning to software to do it. NXP, for example, has created a software-defined modem that can toggle among LTE, H...

By Guest Column Written by John Roese, Chief Technology Officer, Nortel Networks When it comes to broadband economics, a new paradigm may be found in Amazon's Kindle. The question now is to what degree will this trend accelerate as the first WiMAX and LTE networks come online?

By Guest Column The money wasted on subsidizing the more expensive dual radio user devices and trying to run multiple networks would be better spent on just making a WiMAX network that can stand on its own. Meanwhile, WiMAX only gives about a two year head start on UMB and LTE. If Sprint isn’t well built out be...