While expanding its Asian presence, EDX Wireless (
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The addition of ParaLink to EDX's growing list of global distributors raises EDX's presence in Asia. ParaLink Networks, a 16-year veteran company of the telecom industry in Taiwan, is known for promoting innovative wireless products to operators and system integrators.
The distributor agreements authorize ParaLink to market, sell, and support EDX software products, providing EDX customers with more localized assistance in Asia.
EDX has also announced that ParaLink Networks has selected EDX SignalPro as their in-house network planning tool.
"ParaLink will ably contribute to our worldwide sales and support network, building EDX's presence with carriers within Taiwan and throughout Asia," said Bob Shaw, vice president of sales and marketing for EDX, in a statement.
EDX network design tools are some of the most widely used engineering software products for designing wireless communications networks, including wireless broadband, WiMAX (
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This mature suite of tools is the result of over 20 years of development effort, including the pioneering of some of the most important innovations in propagation modeling such as ray-tracing. These highly accurate propagation and planning tools have been used in more than 55 countries worldwide for the successful design and deployment of wireless networks.
"Following the M-Taiwan project, Taiwan awarded six WiMAX operating licenses in 2007. Those licensed WiMAX operators will start to provide the WiMAX service in 2009," said Chungli Yu, president and CEO of ParaLink Networks. "EDX Wireless is a global leader in WiMAX and OFDM-based network planning tools. We are pleased to offer the EDX solutions to our customers because it is the right time and right solution for the market."
ParaLink Networks is one of the largest distributors in the Greater China Region with offices on Taipei, Shanghai and Beijing. Almost all the equipment manufacturers, Telecom operators, service providers, research labs, government labs, universities and system integrators are in the existing customer base.
The engineering team also has strong technology background and experience to provide the technical support, training, repairing, system integration and consulting for the customers.
Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil's articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Michelle Robart