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D-Link Signs agreement with Alcatel-Lucent for WiMAX interoperability test
The SOHO networking equipment provider resumes efforts to enter the mobile WiMAX subscriber market through the Middle East.
D-Link Middle East announced that the company will perform interoperability
testing with Alcatel-Lucent's mobile WiMAX infrastructure. D-Link
manufactures networking customer premise equipment (CPE) and Alcatel-Lucent
offers WiMAX base station radios along with integration services for network
operators. The interoperability tests will be conducted at
Alcatel-Lucent's facilities in France together with its counterpart in Taiwan.
Alcatel-Lucent uses partners for WiMAX customer CPE solutions under a program
called "Open CPE". "The involvement of device manufacturers such as D-Link
will be instrumental in ensuring our customers benefit from the great diversity
of WiMAX devices and superior quality of service in all frequency bands", said
Karim El Naggar, VP and Head of Alcatel-Lucent's WiMAX activities.
D-Link products included in the testing procedure are the D-Link DWM-610 WiMAX
Notebook Adapter and the D-Link DWM-110 WiMAX USB Adapter. Both adapters
are based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard.
The D-Link DWM-610 comes with a PCMCIA host interface and features the frequency
band of 2.5~2.69 GHz, 5/10 MHz channel bandwidth, TDD (time division duplex)
mode, scalable OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access), 1T2R MIMO
(Multiple Input, Multiple Output), DL and UL modulation, 1dBi embedded antenna,
with transmit power of 23dBM at 16 QAM, and support for Windows XP or Vista
operating system.
The D-Link DWM-110 is equipped with a USB 2.0 host interface and features the
frequency band of 2.5~2.69 GHz, 5/10 MHz channel bandwidth, TDD (time division
duplex) mode, scalable OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access),
1T2R MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output), DL and UL modulation, 2dBi embedded
antenna, with transmit power of 23dBM at 16 QAM, and support for Windows XP or
Vista operating system.
D-Link's first foray into mobile WiMAX was premature. In October 2006, the
company announced a mobile WiMAX router and planned to make it commercially
available during the first quarter of 2007. The introduction of Wave 2
certification testing appears to have delayed that original effort with
resurgence two years later in the Middle East through partners like
Alcatel-Lucent.
By Jeff Orr, ORR Technology, LLC
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