802.16a Products

[willem huitema]

RedLine, Wavesat...or Wi-Lan

RedLine with First 802.16a Product to Debut This Month
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3087271

Wavesat has announced the availability of its DM216 chip, the "first" compliant IEEE 802.16a/d Proven Non Line of Sight (NLOS) OFDM chip on the market
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20031006005395&newsLang=en

WiMAX Trials Give New Hope for Broadband Wireless Specialists:....(excerpts)....Wi-Lan has been working with Fujitsu on 802.16a chips for delivery early next year and is then expected to migrate its products quickly to this platform......One company that is active in promoting MPLS and is experimenting with combining that protocol with WiMAX and Wi-Fi is VeriLan. The company is currently testing a WiMAX mesh system for the Portland and coastal areas of Oregon which will have a reach of 100 square miles with MPLS backbone.....
http://www.rethinkresearch.biz/free_page_view.asp?crypt=%B3%9C%C2%97%91u%D0%A0%C2 %C0%60%8Brzr

802.16 Hardware Beta testing: Mr. Schroedl further stated, “VeriLAN Inc. is also testing new Non Line Of Sight (NLOS) 802.16 hardware from Wi-LAN that provides enterprise wireless to companies that require up to 24 Mb connections as far away as 22 miles with service that matches traditional copper and fiber connections”. These new radios will provide secure links with quality of service guaranteed. This will enable bandwidth provisioning for customer bandwidth guarantees.
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2003/10/prweb82591.htm

Wi-LAN's W-OFDM Technology Incorporated into Universal WirelessMAN Standard
http://www.cellular.co.za/technologies/wifi/wireless-man.htm

Wi-LAN to Co-Develop Semiconductor Intellectual Property Cores with Leading Semiconductor IP Supplier
Agreements Enable Wi-LAN to Produce and License Semiconductor IP Cores for IEEE WirelessMAN Standard System-on-Chips
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20031001005219&newsLang=en

Wi-LAN'S Libra 5800 Fixed Wireless Access Product Receives FCC Approval; High-capacity Non-line-of-sight 5.8 GHz W-OFDM Product Now Available in the United States (Wi-Max upgradeble)
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20030930005218&newsLang=en

Wi-LAN/Tachyon gives one of few selective ITU TELECOM WORLD 2003 SHOWCASE PRESENTATIONS 'From Fixed Broadband Networks and Wi-MAX to Mobile Broadband Networks' and is scheduled right after Bill Gates presentation.
http://www.itu.int/WORLD2003/forum/programme_overview.html?menuItem=1&subMenuItem=-1&tabName=Show

time will tell

[pneves]

Hello willem:

I read your post and it is very interesting. I am Pedro Neves from Portugal and I am a researcher in a Telecommunications Institute. We pretend to implement an 802.16a network in our campus, but I have some doubts about the equipment. For instance, is there any equipment that already satisfies the 802.16a profile? I think the profile is not even finished by the task group, am I right?

Can you please give me some feedback about this issue, and what you think about the implementation of the 802.16a in this moment?

With my bet regards,
Pedro Neves

pneves@av.it.pt

[willem huitema]

Found this today....

January 22, 2004 -- Wi-LAN'S Continuity Program(TM) Delivers WiMAX(i) Performance Today: Wi-LAN's current LIBRA Series products have a physical layer that is substantially the same as the WiMAX physical layer, and a proprietary Medium Access Control layer (MAC). LIBRA delivers 32 megabits-per-second (Mbps) throughput in a 10 Megahertz (MHz) channel providing WiMAX-like performance with availability of 192 Mbps in a six-sector cell, and Wi-LAN plans to incorporate a WiMAX MAC in 2005 to enable interoperability with other WiMAX compliant equipment. Wi-LAN is working with Fujitsu Microelectronics America to co-develop a WiMAX compliant system-on-chip (SoC). Wi-LAN expects the WiMAX compliant SoC will be available in the fall of 2004, and Wi-LAN LIBRA Series products are expected to be ready for WiMAX compliance testing in the first quarter of 2005. Wi-LAN expects WiMAX will be prepared to initiate compliance testing near the end of 2004.

You could call or send and e-mail to them http://www.wi-lan.com Wi-Lan has OFDM experience since 1990 and they already have Wimax-like products on the market. They are sold all over the world.

Good luck.

[James_patageul]

Hello people,

i would like to make a MAN in brussels (belgium)

so i need good hardware 802.16,

but the first question is what is the différence by using 2.2Ghz or 7Ghz or 3.5 Ghz ? (that affect the speed or range ?)

so where is the best place where i can buy hardware & antenna for 802.16 ?

thx a lot people

[gantonello]

I am currently the Chairman of IEEE802.16 Task Group d, Chairman of WiMAX 2-11GHz Technical Working Group, WiMAX Board Member, and Sr. Technical Advisor with Wi-LAN Inc.

I had no idea there were so many companies claiming to be deploying "WiMAX" equipment. Some questions that come to mind could include:
"with which other vendors' equipment is yours interoperable?".
"with which WiMAX Profile is the equipment WiMAX Certifiedä?".
"Is the equipment WiMAX Certifiedä?".

The current status with regards to System Profiles and Conformance standards, is as follows:

WiMAX System Profiles for 2-11GHz:
Have been submitted to ETSI HiperMAN and IEEE 802.16-REVd. ETSI HiperMAN is published. IEEE Std 802.16aä-2003 is published (no 2-11GHz profiles). IEEE 802.16-REVd is in Sponsor Ballot, not published.

So, you are correct in asking "I think the profile is not even finished by the task group, am I right?".

The other questions you raised, can be answered by my comments above.

Regards,
Gordon Antonello

[M/Q]

Welcome to the forum. I am sure that I speak for everyone and thank you for your comments. I also would like to ask if it is possible for you to please update this forum as you see new and interesting developments. I for one would be very appreciative.

[indobwa]

I want to be the provider of wimax & 802.20 in indonesia,

1. what freq allocation is best for both system?
2. can we use one freq for both?
3. How big is bandwidth ew need for those system?

Thx
Rgds
Rudy H

[Rubaiyat]

Hello everyone,

I'm a research student looking into the aspect of WiMax networking and issues related to it. Thanks to all for putting up the valuable information. Hope to hear more from you :)

Regards.

[Planet]

Rubaiyat, welcome to the forum, I wanted to share this search of wifiplanet's articles with you as I am sure it will help your research: http://search.internet.com/www.wi-fiplanet.com
Good luck.

Planet...

[Aldapo]

http://www.alvarion.com/RunTime/Products_2020.asp?tNodeParam=42

The Alvarion sells the WiMAX at 3.5GHz.Who knows the price and speed?

[willem huitema]

Originally posted by Aldapo
http://www.alvarion.com/RunTime/Products_2020.asp?tNodeParam=42

The Alvarion sells the WiMAX at 3.5GHz.Who knows the price and speed?

WiMax? Alvarion is NOT selling WiMax....yet!!!!!!! No WiMax products have been certified/qualified.

Alvarion Releases “WiMax” Platform
Alvarion artfully crafts its BreezeMax press release to use the term WiMax without precisely saying what that means: There’s no such thing as WiMax gear yet, but Alvarion wants you to accept that they’re releasing the closest thing to it. There’s no certification standard and no trademark program from the WiMax Forum, and that might be allowing a little market confusion to creep in.

Look at the hedges in the press release: Based on the IEEE 802.16/ETSI HiperMAN standards and WiMAX Forum profiles — that’s profiles, not standards. With prominent roles in the WiMAX ForumTM…The BreezeMAX platform is designed to support WiMAX certified CPEs, which will incorporate the Intel WiMAX chip set as they become available in the market…these are “products that provide a path for operators to WiMAX standardisation”…

All in all, perhaps they should have said more clearly: We’re not selling WiMax equipment, but something we believe we be so close to it that only firmware upgrades are required. Interestingly, while they say futureproofed on one page, they don’t mention whether purchasers would receive free hardware upgrades if the WiMax standard as deployed is too different to allow firmware changes to this equipment.

Finally, while the equipment will ship in the 2004 third quarter, BreezeMax 3500 works in the 3.5 GHz band, which is only available in Europe and the Asia Pacific. Daily Wireless has more details about the equipment. Bandwidth and throughput aren’t mentioned.

http://wifinetnews.com/archives/003407.html

Alvarion launches uncertified WiMax kit
Graeme Wearden
ZDNet UK
June 02, 2004, 17:40 BST
WiMax won't be certified until the end of this year, but Alvarion has announced a product because it says telcos are already clamouring for it
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0,39020348,39156528,00.htm

Wireless broadband system looks toward WiMax
Alvarion promises easy upgrade to support standard
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/02/HNwimaxstandard_1.html

Alvarion isn’t alone in talking up WiMax-ish kit. Alcatel SA (NYSE: ALA - message board; Paris: CGEP:PA) has teamed with Navini Networks Inc. on pre-WiMAX technology, while Aperto Networks and Wi-LAN Inc. (Toronto: WIN - message board) have deployed services using a WiMax-like service (see Alcatel's Not Waiting for WiMax, Aperto Unveils WiMax Roadmap, Wi-LAN Extends Finnish Net, and WiMax Gets Serious).
http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=53744

It's very confusing for a lot of people to read headlines like "Alvarion Launches BreezeMAX, Its WiMAX Platform Developed from the Ground up Based on IEEE 802.16/HiperMAN Standards"

and

Rudy Leser, VP Marketing of Alvarion. "Our WiMAX platform has been built from scratch...."

....knowing that "WiMax" isn't available yet!!!!!! How can you have a "WiMax Platform"?

They should add "pre-wimax" or "WiMax upgradable" in there headline imho. And that they are working on a "WiMax Platform" imho.

What to say about: "This is the first commercial launch ever of WiMAX hardware," Carlton O'Neal, vice president of marketing, told NewsFactor.
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Consumer-WiMAX-Market-Heats-Up&story_id=24376&category=wlsnetw

WiMax hardware? Not again.....

Call it pre-wimax hype!!!!!

The WiMAX Forum has established an aggressive, yet realistic roadmap to deliver WiMAX Forum Certified products:

2nd Quarter 2004: Profiles delivered and testing facility selected
3rd Quarter 2004: Certification tests ready
4th Quarter 2004: First “plugfest”
1st Quarter 2005: First products enter the WiMAX Forum Certified process
Early 2005: WiMAX Forum Certified products commercially deployed for fixed outdoor
Late 2005/Early 2006: WiMAX Forum Certified products commercially deployed for fixed indoor
2006/2007: WiMAX Forum Certified products available for portable access (notebooks, PDAs, etc.)

http://www.wimaxforum.org/about/faq/

[Rubaiyat]

Can anyone comment on products from Red Line Communications, Website (http://www.redlinecommunications.com).

They are claiming their products to be based on 802.16 (WiMax).
Check this one (http://www.redlinecommunications.com/products/an100/an_100.html).

[willem huitema]

Wi-LAN seems to be the only company that has commercially
implemented 256 sub-carrier OFDM, which is the physical layer
technology supported by the WiMAX Forum.

"A review of the AirSpan Spec sheets, show that the Redline
AN50/Airspan AS3030 and the Redline AN100/Airspan AS4030
have EXACTLY the SAME Receiver Sensitivity and POOR Bit Error
Rates .....

These figures indicate that both units are only 64 FFT OFDM, and NOT 802.16 / WiMax standard/ OFDM.

Apparently the AN100 / AS4030 are only modified versions of the
prior poor performing units.

Also telling, is that the Reciever specs (above) are for the narrow
7 Mhz Channel operation with ONLY 6 Mbps data throughput ....
What a Tangled Web......."

.....excerpts from
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/wilan/message/7162

fwiw