WiMAX Forum Certifies Five New Fixed WiMAX Products

March 25, 2006

The WiMAX Forum today announced the latest fixed wireless broadband network products to achieve the designation of WiMAX Forum Certified(TM) based on the defined Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) system profile operating in the 3.5GHz frequency spectrum. The WiMAX Forum member companies and products to complete certification and interoperability testing include Airspan's MacroMAX base station and EasyST subscriber station solution, Axxcelera's ExcelMax base station, Sequans Communications' SQN1010-RD subscriber station solution, Siemens' WayMAX@vantage base station and subscriber station solutions, and Wavesat's miniMAX subscriber station solution.

WiMAX Forum's certification laboratory, CETECOM Spain, worked with each WiMAX equipment supplier to conduct an extensive series of stringent and extensive test procedures, consisting of protocol conformance, radio conformance and interoperability testing. To date, 14 fixed WiMAX products have received the WiMAX Forum Certified seal in the two months since the program first started certifying equipment.

"By achieving the certifications of FDD profile equipment, the WiMAX Forum and our members continue to make significant progress in delivering products that help network operators build out their fixed WiMAX networks," said Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum. "In addition to our hard work on the certification front, I am also quite pleased with the outcome of our continued collaboration with ETSI and WiMAX system suppliers in the latest Plugfest in France, which provides essential experience and intelligence to advance how our member companies progress from the prototype stage to commercial system development stage."