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Nortel Launches WiMAX trial

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...