Motorola Hopes for Brighter ‘09
Posted by Sam Churchill on December 22nd, 2008Motorola, beset by bad news this year, said today it will expand Long Term Evolution (LTE), WiMAX and Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployments in 2009.
Motorola’s LTE unite says it was the first company to demonstrate handoff between CDMA EV-DO Rev-A and LTE technologies in a with VoIP calls and streaming video. Motorola’s handoff demonstrate how service providers using CDMA-based networks today can smoothly integrate broadband OFDMA and LTE.
According to a new report from West Technology Research Solutions, regulatory conditions are looking bright for the mobile WiMAX growth and adoption. As for the fixed WiMAX market, Forrester sees Africa and Eastern Europe as key areas for telecom growth.
Motorola’s WiMAX business unit is currently engaged in 49 countries including a $165 million contract with Saudi Arabia’s Atheeb, and contracts with Embratel in Brazil and Axtel in Mexico. Other developments occurred in previously underserved areas of the world, including Jordan, East Malaysia, and Pakistan. Wateen Telecom in Pakistan placed one of the world’s largest WiMAX device orders in 2008, with 198,000 units.
Nearly 600 Motorola WiMAX base stations are on the air in Chicago and 300 in the Portland metro area, ready for commercial service.
On the wireline side, Motorola says its FTTH service passes through 14 million homes and connects 3.75 million homes in North America.
Hotwire Communications has selected Motorola’s FTTH, MPEG-4 high definition (HD) encoder and IP set-top solutions for the delivery of both residential and commercial broadband services. Smaller telecoms will benefit from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Program for Motorola’s gigabit passive optical network (GPON) FTTH solutions.
In other news, Airspan Networks, announced today the release of a new 700 MHz WiMAX product suite targeted at rural markets (pdf). It builds on the the company’s current 700 MHz product line, and adds to the broad Airspan WiMAX portfolio.
“700MHz license holders in the USA and internationally have been waiting for a credible WiMAX solution to upgrade their service offering to their customers,” said Declan Byrne, Airspan’s Chief Marketing Officer. “The combination of excellent signal propagation and robust Airspan equipment will enable operators to offer high speed Internet to a broad population in a wide network coverage area at a very low cost-to-market.”
“We believe that this new product, coupled with our products in the 1.5 and 3.65 GHz frequency bands, provides the perfect ‘trifecta’ of solutions in support of rural broadband access in the United States,” continued Declan Byrne.
For added flexibility, the Airspan equipment is designed to operate in a range of channel sizes, from as small as 1.5MHz to as wide as 10MHz.
source: dailywireless.org
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