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March 14, 2005

WiMAX Insider's Club Forms - Airspan, Alvarion, Redline Commence WiMAX Testing

Airspan Communications, Alvarion, and Redline Communications jointly announced that they have begun private interoperability testing of their respective WiMAX products in advance of the official WiMAX compatibility testing which will begin in July, 2005. The companies will first test Physical (PHY) layer compatibility followed by Media Access Control (MAC) layer compatibility.

This is quite a coup, notably for Redline Communications as the smallest member of the trio, but the one with the earliest, and from all appearances, deepest commitment to WiMAX. Redline Communications was first to announce a product that claimed compliance with 802.16a, which was superseded by 802.16-2004 (for which Redline was also first to announce a 802.16-2004 product).


By Steve Stroh

This article is Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh.

Posted by on March 14, 2005 at 11:30 |

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