POSDATA and ArrayComm to Develop Smart Antenna Base Station for WiBRO and Mobile WiMAX

(Business News & Technology News, 13 Jul 2005)

POSDATA will incorporate ArrayComm's smart antenna software into POSDATA's high performance base station. This combination is expected to yield large improvements in overall system range, capacity, and coverage quality for 802.16e networks, offering WiBRO and Mobile WiMAX users higher data rates over wider areas. The parties also agreed to collaborate on marketing and cooperate to harmonize standards.

System development is being performed by POSDATA's Korean and US R&D groups in conjunction with ArrayComm's R&D team. Work for WiBRO has already commenced and availability is planned for fourth quarter of 2005. Commercial availability for Mobile WiMAX will follow.

WiMAX technology, based on the 802.16e standard, is designed to help service providers across global markets deliver economical broadband data, voice, and video services to both residential and business customers. WiBRO, a Korean-based standard, and Mobile WiMAX, its international counterpart, are subsets of 802.16e, and designed for mobile applications.

"Our vision and focus is to provide end-to-end, all-IP, mobile broadband systems to Service Providers that fit into their business models," said Byung-Chang Yoo, POSDATA's CEO. "POSDATA's mobile systems were designed from the ground up based on the 802.16e standard; therefore, the systems are not constrained by existing fixed wireless access or conventional cellular technologies. By partnering with ArrayComm, POSDATA can offer the first WiBRO and Mobile WiMAX systems with field-proven smart antenna technology."

POSDATA's all-IP, mobile broadband systems include WiBRO and Mobile WiMAX standards-based Base Stations, Access Control Routers, and terminal devices.