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CPEs are Key to the success of WiMAX. We bring you some developments here!

2008 is set to be an exiting year with almost every week witnessing the release of a CPE or WiMAX modem. This is a result of years of standardization work, chipset development and the deployment of WiMAX networks at an unprecendented pace.Updates are welcome!

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Mitsumi showcases WiMAX SD cards at Mobile World Congress

 

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Feb 2008

 

Mitsumi has showcased SD cards which can be used to enable various mobile WiMAX devices   with mobile WiMAX connectivity. The Mitsumi SD cards, which are one of the many products to be based on this technology, use the WiMAX chipset from Sequans. The Chipset comprises of Sequans’ SQN1130 Mobile WiMAX baseband chip and SQN1140 RF chip. Both the chips are wave 2 ready; i.e. meet all the requirements and specifications of mobile WiMAX wave 2 certification including MIMO. The WiMAX Forum certification is expected to follow later.

These and similar products ( see Chapter 8 of book “ Mobile Broadcasting with WiMAX”) are indicative of the types of devices which will be used with the rollout of WiMAX networks.

At present around 280 commercial WiMAX networks are operational worldwide, but the number could grow manifold in the next two years.

WiMAX enabling devices- PC Cards

PC cards which can enable personal computers and laptops have been the first to appear on the scene in the category of enablers for Mobile WiMAX. The first products were for WiBro in Korea following the launch of services in 2005. Subsequently these have become available progressively   for Mobile WiMAX.

Telsima StarMAX™ PC Cards

Telsima Corp, USA is one of the manufacturers of  WiMAX PC cards based on IEEE 802.16e standards. Its cards are available in both PCMCIA ( StarMAX 3210) and Express form ( StarMAX 3220) formats. The cards come with  Windows Vista or Windows XP based clients which can be used  to set the operating parameters such as band of operation and bandwidth etc.

 

Accton™ WIMAX PCMCIA cards

Accton, Taiwan has a range of PCMCIA mobile WiMAX 802.16e compliant PC cards for different frequency bands. Accton PCMCIA cards have a new two fold external antenna for a higher gain, polarization support   and a higher transmitted power of 23dBm.It has a 1TX, 2 receive antennae and is Mobile WiMAX wave 1 compliant. The PCMCIA card is based on the use of BC-MSB120 MAC/Baseband chipset and MSR120 RF transceiver.

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POSDATA announces the First WiMAX gaming device
The World'd first online gaming device using WiMAX as the connectivity medium has been introduced by POSDATA Korea. The new device G100 supports a 4 inch LCD and a "slide-out" gamepad. The device has WiFi and blue tooth connectivity in addition to WiMAX.

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