LGC Wireless, which supplies wireless carriers such as
Vodafone, has joined theWimax Forum, an industry-led
non-profit organisation that promotes and certifies
interoperableWimax products.
The Wimax Forum aims to create economies of scale through
standards-based, interoperable products that drive price and
performance levels not achievable by proprietary approaches. The
Wimax Forum is pushing the IEEE 802.16 family of wireless broadband
technologies. It currently has more than 100 members, including
Alcatel, AT&T, BT, Fujitsu and Intel.
"The Wimax Forum is critical to the
rapid adoption of Wimax, as it promotes co-operation among
suppliers to ensure Wimax products are compatible and can
interoperate," said John Spindler, vice-president, marketing, at
LGC Wireless.
Wimax technology is designed to help service providers across
global markets deliver economical broadband data, voice and video
services to residential and business customers.
"LGC Wireless, which has more than 50 installations in the UK,
wants to ensure its products are compatible with Wimax base
stations and repeaters being developed by a number of suppliers,
and the Wimax Forum will provide an avenue to interoperability
testing and certification," said Spindler