NextWave Broadband and Huawei Technologies Cooperate to Conduct Interoperability Testing and Field Trials of Mobile WiMAX
(Business News & Technology News, 28 Sep 2007)
NextWave Broadband Inc., a subsidiary of NextWave Wireless Inc. and a manufacturer of advanced mobile WiMAX chipsets, and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, a provider of next-generation telecommunications network solutions, are conducting interoperability testing of NextWave's mobile WiMAX chipsets, based on the IEEE 802.16e standard, with Huawei's WiMAX infrastructure equipment.
The testing, being conducted at NextWave Broadband's facilities in San Diego, California, is evaluating the interoperability of NextWave's first-generation mobile WiMAX chipset which includes the NW1100 baseband system-on-a-chip (SOC) and matched NW1200 multi-band RFIC and Huawei's WASN9770 ASN-GW and BTS3703 three sector BTS platforms.
In addition to the interoperability evaluation, Huawei's commercial WiMAX equipment is also being tested at NextWave's trial network facility located in Henderson, Nevada. Key features being tested include handover, mobility, and enhanced services such as Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and video streaming.