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Taiwan Government Awards 9 WiMAX Certificates to 6 Companies
On February 5th, the Ministry of Economic Affairs Industrial Development Bureau "Taiwan Action Office" presented the first batch of certificates for the planned nationwide Taiwanese WiMAX network. A total of six base station and CPE vendors were given certificates and approved for commercial WiMAX operations.
Established in 2007, the "Taiwan Action Office" (referred to as IOT in Chinese)
is responsible for verifying WiMAX product conformance and interoperability.
To pursue this objective, the IOT is chartered with building a model WiMAX
interoperability environment and for the development of WiMAX testing
technologies for certification of WiMAX compliant equipment. The goal is
to promote interoperability on Taiwan's forthcoming nationwide WiMAX network,
increasing competition and therefore lowering costs. There are over 100
measurement parameters that are validated during the WiMAX conformance testing
procedures performed by IOT.
The Product Certifications were given to six domestic companies: Accton Wireless Broadband, D-Link, Tecom, Apaq Technology, Quanta Microsystems and Quanta
Friends of Electronics and Technology. Two foreign companies,
Alcatel-Lucent and NEC also received WiMAX certification logos.
This WiMAX product certification follows the January 12th announcement where
five network operators received Taiwan WiMax licenses. The operators
agreed to setup a "split-off center" which solves the problem of charging
customers who are roaming between different operators.
Under the M-Taiwan Applications Promotion Program, the Taiwan government and
domestic companies both have invested heavily in the development of WiMAX.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) of Taiwan signed a memorandum of
understanding (MOUs) with leading international companies including Intel, NEC,
Nortel, R&S, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia-Siemens, Sprint-Nextel and Starent.
This cooperation facilitates interoperability product tests. One goal is
to give local manufacturers a quick path into the international supply chain for
WiMAX equipment and devices.
M-Taiwan Program is building up a local WiMAX industrial chain step by step.
With the support of the government, 364 companies have invested in the
development and manufacturing of key ICs, terminal devices, base stations as
well as testing certificates, content development, and operations. A
nationwide Taiwan WiMAX industry eco-system from service to core technologies
shall be completed sometime in 2009.
Intel has invested $500M in the M-Taiwan (WiMAX) program. Both
Alcatel-Lucent and NEC have their WiMAX research centers in Taiwan.
Opinion: This is an important step to get WiMAX equipment (Base
Stations and Devices) certified for commercial operation. The Taiwan
operators have not yet announced any date for launch of commercial operations.
We expect that news will be forthcoming in the next few months.
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Additional References: WiMax in Taiwan
http://wimaxtaipei.tw/news_industry_detail.php?id=390
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/894/1050894/taiwanese-wimax-winded-credit-crunch
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20090209PD202.html
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/159158/taiwan_revamps_wimax_plans.html
http://wimaxtaipei.tw/news_industry_detail.php?id=371
http://wimaxtaipei.tw/news_industry_detail.php?id=375
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M-Taiwan Program and WiMAX Blueprint
This article is largely based on Sean Wang's ( ITRI International's President) presentation
"Taiwan’s 3G/4G Plan and Deployment" at the IEEE ComSoc - SVC Wireless seminar on May 30th at Santa Clara University.
Taiwan’s WiMAX Blueprint:
”WiMAX Technology will be a focus for the future of Taiwan IT industry and will be a preferred technology option to deliver M-Service, M-Learning and M-Life in the Mobile Taiwan Program." -- The Science & Technology Advisor Group (STAG) of Executive Yuan.
The WiMAX Blueprint provides guidelines for technology development srategy, Nationwide R&D projects, and Spectrum allocation Planning.
A specific objective was to participate in WiMAX standards organizations in the initial stages and then to team up with international players, such as Intel, Alcatel, NEC, Fujitsu, Alvarion, Cisco, and other WiMAX Forum member companies. Some of the local Taiwanese vendors involved in the WiMAX project include: Gemtek, MiTAC, JStream, CyberTAN , ZyXEL, Delta Networks, Quanta, Accton, Alpha Networks, Winston NeWeb Corp, Z-Com, Foxconn, Tecom, and ASUSTek.
The WiMAX test bed in Taiwan has deployed several applications and services to endorse WiMAX ecosystem (operators, content providers, software, manufactures etc). Some of the apps tested include: VoIP, LBS, IPTV, Security Monitoring, and M-video.
The plan is to target services and apps to government, schools, enterprises, and home use. For example:
Government
• Gov. Service
• Surveillance
• M-Traffic Service
• M-Medicare
Schools
• M-Learning
• M-campus security
Enterprise/home• M-Business
• Video conference
• M-entertainment
• M-Homecare
• M-Finance
• VoIP…
M-Taiwan Deployment Status:
𐂄 Focus Application Services: M-services, M-Life and M-Learning
-- Establish WiMAX industry in Taiwan
𐂄 Wireless internet access: 8 million subscribers without surfing barriers
𐂄 Key Stone Companies of M-Taiwan:17 companies in total
One of the most innovative aspects of the M-Taiwan WiMAX project is the world’s first Mobile WiMAX on a high speed train connecting cities in Taiwan.
𐂃 High speed rail will make Taiwan a “one-day” metropolitan (max speed of 300 km/hr) area
𐂃 International collaboration: ITRI, NTT Broadband Platform, NTT, Corning, and ZyXEL
to develop broadband network solutions using Mobile WiMAX technology
--It will enable download/upload data transmission speeds to reach 15Mbps
𐂃 This will be the world's first demonstration of Mobile WiMAX on a high-speed rail line.
𐂃 The project will also serve as a reference in the global deployment of broadband
access in ultra-mobile environments.
The combined WiMAX/WLAN and Cellular Networks will provide: Industrial Upgrading, Micro-Payments, Transportation Services, Environmental /Ecological Surveillance, an on-line City Guide, Safety and Security services.
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Separately, we've learned that Taiwanese PC motherboard company ECS has developed the dual-mode ECS U170/U171 WiMAX/GSM Dongle Phones
http://www.wimaxian.com/2009/06/02/ecs-showcased-ecs-u170u171-wimaxgsm-dongle-phones-at-computex-2009/ )
We have requested product info from the company and will share it with you once its made available.
Comment: The ability to "tether" a notebook PC onto a mobile WiMAX network, together with dual mode cell phone service is highly attractive, in our opinion. Would like to see more innovative devices like this, which Intel promised us over two years ago!
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