Nortel and Toshiba Corporation have announced an agreement for the joint development of mobile WiMAX1 base stations for Japanese and global markets.
The base stations will be based on Nortel’s next-generation broadband wireless technology and Toshiba's high-efficiency amplifier and miniaturization technology.
The new WiMAX base stations will offer low power consumption with high reliability and will feature miniaturized equipment. The base stations' radio module will be developed by Toshiba, drawing on its strength in miniaturization and high-efficiency amplifier technologies. Nortel will develop the digital module for the base stations. Nortel has extensive
WiMAX R&D capabilities and expertise in OFDM2 and MIMO3 technologies that support high-speed wireless broadband communications. Building on these respective strengths, Nortel and Toshiba will develop an innovative range of small, power efficient, and cost effective WiMAX base stations.
"This agreement marks a significant milestone for Nortel and Toshiba," said Nick Vreugdenhil, president, Japan, Nortel. "As Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications works to standardize ultra-broadband wireless technologies for the domestic market, we will be ready to respond to the needs of the Japanese market and extend the benefits of this joint development alliance to other markets around the globe."
WiMAX is a next generation standard for telecommunications that enables high-speed, high-capacity wireless broadband access to the Internet, covering a wider area4 than wireless LAN technologies and offering a higher speed5 than current mobile phone systems. WiMAX can enable anywhere, anytime wireless connectivity in cities and also in rural areas where a wired network infrastructure is not in place, benefiting users with wide transmission coverage and high capacity connectivity to high-bandwidth broadband services. Unlike wireless LAN, WiMAX does not restrict users to limited hot spots and allows users to be mobile while connected in a car or a train, for example-providing a solution to meet the accelerating worldwide consumer demand for anywhere, anytime wireless broadband connectivity.
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