Comsys Mobile and WiNetworks Complete Mobile-WiMAX IOT

(Business News & Technology News, 29 May 2009)

Comsys Communication & Signal Processing Ltd, a fabless semiconductor vendor specializing in advanced integrated multimode communication processors for mobile devices, and WiNetworks Ltd, a pioneer in the development and integration of WiMAX 802.16e Wave 2 (MIMO) technologies, have announced that following completion of IOT between Comsys Mobile’s ComMAX CM1125 multimode mobile WiMAX/GSM-EDGE baseband processor and WiNetworks Compact and Pico WiMAX base station, the companies will be cooperating on demos at WiMAX Taipei and WiMAX Forum Global Congress Amsterdam, both beginning on June 2.

The demo will take place at Comsys Mobile’s booth at both of these exhibitions, using a CM1125-enabled multimode dongle-phone manufactured by ECS Elitegroup. Visitors will be able to gain first-hand user experience of this device by conducting voice conversations over a cellular network and web-surfing over a WiMAX network provided by WiNetworks’ WiN7200-2 Pico BST.

The dongle-phone is commercially available for service providers requiring multimode devices capable of supporting and providing seamless handover between WiMAX and legacy GSM technologies ─ a necessity at least for the initial stages of WiMAX deployment.

“It is important for us to conduct IOT with major stakeholders within the WiMAX industry.” stated Mr. Yoram Shkedi, VP Sales & Marketing at WiNetworks Ltd. “We consider it most worthwhile to have participated in IOT with Comsys Mobile as we believe in their ComMAX CM1125 communication processor and see how it is steadily becoming an industry winner. In addition we are proud to provide the WiMAX functionality for a demo showing the capabilities of the only handset available today supporting WiMAX/GSM.”

“We are happy to have accomplished IOT with WiNetworks. They are an important company in the WiMAX ecosystem and their WiN7200-2 Pico BST fills a significant niche in the industry,” said Mr. Ehud Reshef, Director for WiMAX Product Marketing at Comsys Mobile.” He continued: “WiNetworks WiN7200-2 Pico BST is the perfect WiMAX baseband solution for current installations being reliable, compact and easy to install and operate.”