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Cameo Communications, a Taiwan based provider of WiFi (News - Alert) and Broadband products has unveiled the latest line of its Mobile WiMAX PCMCIA products based on Wave-2 Profile MIMO 1T x 2R (MISO) solutions from Runcom (News - Alert) Technologies.

 

 Runcom develops OFDMA based silicon solutions for user terminals and base stations that conform to the IEEE802.16e-2005 standard for WiBro and Mobile WiMAX applications. The Mobile MIMO WiMAX (News - Alert) PCMCIA card will be available in Q3 2007.

 

"The major WiMAX service providers and customers, having seen many SISO products, are now looking for advanced Wave-2 MIMO MSS which can achieve better performances when it works with MIMO WiMAX base stations. To take the lead in supplying this demand, we now bring to the market a powerful WiMAX solution, adopting Runcom's latest WiMAX Matrix-B chipset along with NXP's MIMO radio technology," said Roger Wu, chief technology officer of Cameo Communications in a statement. "Cameo's new product, with Runcom's MIMO technologies, will deliver high performance, ease-of-use wireless broadband access solutions to our customers, service providers, and their subscribers."

 

Cameo's new MIMO PC card fitted in laptops, ensures a three to five fold increase in the speed mobile Internet services can be accessed. In tandem with Cameo's WiMAX/3G IAD gateway, the card can act as a wireless broadband access device to obtain WiFi, LAN, and VoIP services. Cameo’s SISO USB adapters allow subscribers to access a WiMAX network with a conventional USB cable.

 

"Runcom and Cameo are proud to offer the world leading MIMO-powered WiMAX PC card based on the latest Wave-2 design releases from Runcom. We are confident it will lead the wireless industry to provide MIMO-based products for global customers for their successful WiMAX commercial deployments worldwide." said Dr Zion Hadad, Chairman of Runcom Technologies. "Seeing tremendous demand from customers for Wave-2 MIMO products, we believe this product will fulfill the upcoming booming demands from carrier and service providers."

 

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