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The WiMAX Forum Taipei Showcase and WiMAX (News - Alert) Forum conference this week in Taiwan reportedly witnessed more than 3,000 visitors and 50 WiMAX Forum member companies coming together to participate.

During the event, the WiMAX Forum announced the opening of the industry’s first WiMAX Forum-endorsed application lab and the results of its fourth public Mobile WiMAX PlugFest. The WiMAX Forum allows thousands of participants to experience the commercial workings of WiMAX products before others get an opportunity to do so.

Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum, said at a press conference, “This new application lab, supported by local industry and Taiwan administration, is a stellar example of the global readiness by region for the innovations that anytime, anywhere broadband Internet access of WiMAX technology will spawn. As our members come together this week in Taipei to showcase products and announce plans to deliver Mobile WiMAX services in 2008, we are reminded that the WiMAX industry is addressing a new standard in a way no other industry or association has in the past. We are approaching WiMAX technology much the same way that the innovators of the Internet built the World Wide Web, offering a truly open infrastructure where no single operator or service provider dominates the technology.”

The M-Taiwan WiMAX Application Lab located in Hsinchu will be an open environment. It will be a place for investors from around the world to come and test new WiMAX applications covering categories such as Voice over Internet Protocol and entertainment. Developers will get an opportunity to test their products and services for performance on a live WiMAX system and conduct. They will also get a chance to measure customer reaction to the products before they actually release it to the market. Even University students will use the new lab to develop applications and services in collaboration with their professors, industry leaders, the WiMAX Forum and our members.

Visitors can have a look at the latest demonstrations from worldwide system and chipset vendors with products and complete end-to-end solutions.

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Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

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