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WiMAX Forum Announces Second Applications Lab
U.S. facility at University of Maryland complements Taiwan proving grounds for application development and testing.
The WiMAX Forum announced it has added the
University of Maryland's MAXWell Lab as the second applications lab. The MAXWell
Lab complements the M-Taiwan lab in Hsinchu, Taiwan announced last October. The
applications labs are designed for academic and corporation entities to develop
and test new WiMAX applications.
The MAXWell Lab will support application testing in a real-world environment at
a technologically neutral site. The initial focus of the MAXWell Lab, which is
part of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, will
be location-aware applications. For example, with the upcoming deployments of
WiMAX in the Washington D.C. area, the Maryland-based MAXWell Lab becomes a
natural sandbox to test applications which will run on that system.
"With a community of some 45,000 people at the University of Maryland, this is
going to be a unique facility because of the size of the potential test bed and
large number of live users," said Ashok Agrawala, director of the MAXWell Lab
and professor of computer science. "Our students, in collaboration with
professors, industry leaders, and WiMAX Forum members, will use the new lab to
develop breakthrough applications and services, most of which we cannot yet
imagine."
In addition to the North American MAXWell Lab, the WiMAX Forum endorsed the
M-Taiwan WiMAX Application Lab in October. The Taiwan lab test new WiMAX
applications covering categories such as Voice over Internet Protocol and
entertainment.
By Jeff Orr
ORR Technology, LLC
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