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Alcatel (News - Alert)-Lucent's Philippe Goossens has been chosen to join the WiMAX Forum, an industry-led non-profit group which is formed by more than 430 companies dedicated to promote and certify interoperable WiMAX products.
"Today's announcement is a major step forward and further highlights our commitment to promote the IEEE 802.16e-2005 open standard to advance the adoption of WiMAX worldwide," said Goossens, Strategic Alliances director for Alcatel-Lucent's WiMAX activities. "As part of the WiMAX Forum, Alcatel-Lucent is working to ensure interoperability of wireless broadband solutions and enable telecom operators to deliver innovative and differentiating services to their customers."
The news follows the announcement of the company's most recent multiple WiMAX network deployments. Indeed, Alcatel-Lucent will build a commercial universal WiMAX network with Telmex in Chile. The Telmex Chile WiMAX network will be IEEE (News - Alert) 802.16e-2005 standard-compatible for fixed, nomadic and mobile usage and will be deployed in the 3.5GHz frequency band using Alcatel-Lucent's 9100 WiMAX system. The network is scheduled to be operational during the second half of this year.
Also this month, Alcatel-Lucent announced that the C-Dot Alcatel-Lucent Research Centre (CARC) in Chennai, India successfully completed the country's first live WiMAX IEEE 802.16e-2005 (also called Rev-e) field trial using Aircel's licensed spectrum, now ready for commercial deployment.
"Alcatel-Lucent is a global leader in telecommunications, and having the company join our Board is evidence of its dedication to taking the WiMAX ecosystem forward," commented Ron Resnick, president and chairman of the WiMAX Forum. "Having one of the industry's most comprehensive wireless portfolios, we look forward to Alcatel-Lucent's further involvement to help accelerate the WiMAX deployment worldwide. As a leading proponent of WiMAX, Alcatel-Lucent has proven its ability to deliver standards-based products that are commercially installed by its numerous operator customers."
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit her columnist page.
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