TAIPEI, Taiwan – Nortel is teaming up with National Taiwan University to test a range of high bandwidth services on WiMAX.
The NTU WiMAX lab trial site supports field-testing and demonstration of a wide range of high-bandwidth multimedia applications – such as VoIP, video streaming, video surveillance and a WiMAX/WLAN handover to 3G networks – using PDAs, laptop computers, Wi-Fi handsets and WiMAX customer premise equipment.
WiMAX is a long-range wireless broadband technology that service providers hope will allow them to serve entire communities under one big wireless bubble. However, standards have not yet been constructed.
"Nortel has great confidence in WiMAX as a long-range wireless broadband system for the very economical delivery of large amounts of bandwidth at speeds comparable to today’s DSL land-line connections," said Jackson Wu, managing director of Taiwan for Nortel.
A significant number of worldwide Wi-Fi devices are designed and manufactured in Taiwan, and Nortel is working closely with Taiwan-based global specialists who are developing, for example, a portable dual mode WiMAX/Wi-Fi handset that will work with Nortel’s WiMAX solution, and with the Nortel Wireless Mesh Network solution deployed in Taipei and Kaohsiung as part of the government’s M-Taiwan initiative.
In addition, Nortel has signed an agreement with Chunghwa Telecom to deploy a WiMAX solution in the operator’s experimental park to create an environment for testing WiMAX and wireless mesh integration.
Nortel is a member of the WiMAX Forum, an industry-led organization that promotes interoperability and certification of wireless products for delivery of faster, more affordable data, voice and video services to businesses and consumers. Nortel also owns many key patents in the technologies underlying the WiMAX standard
