Wireless broadband equipment supplier Alvarion Ltd. has developed a mobile WiMAX solution based on the 802.16e standard. The company expects to launch the system in 2006, coinciding with the anticipated availability of WiMAX-enabled devices.
"Mobile broadband is a huge market opportunity for the whole telecom industry, and we have taken several high-profile actions to ensure that we extend our leadership in fixed broadband wireless solutions into that space," says Zvi Slonimsky, CEO of Alvarion. "We have the major building blocks of this solution in-house already, with our many years of experience designing and deploying OFDM systems, our early and long involvement with the WiMAX Forum, and certain core mobile technologies and know-how resulting from our recent acquisition of specialized mobile systems provider interWAVE."
Mobile WiMAX, as defined in the 802.16e standard, will offer open, scalable and cost-effective mobile data technologies that deliver broadband services of several Mbps per subscriber.
