Taipei
& Tokyo, June 5th, 2008 - NEC Corporation (NEC) announced that
it has concluded the joint "Wave-2 Certification" pre-testing of
M-Taiwan and WiMAX Forum in cooperation with the Taiwanese WiMAX Forum
Designated Certification Lab, "ADT" (Advance Data Technology
Corporation). NEC has provided WiMAX Base Station systems and
Subscriber Terminals for ADT in order to conduct WAVE 2 Certification
testing on M-Taiwan technologies. Following the trials, NEC and ADT
have successfully verified the feasibility of M-Taiwan certification,
and made significant progress towards WiMAX Forum's Wave2
Certification.
WAVE 2 Certification is an essential requirement for both the
WiMAXForum and M-Taiwan technologies. NEC's cooperative developments
with
ADT have satisfied a great deal of the certification requirements in
advance of expectations, and represent a significant move forward
towards official WAVE 2 recognition.
Positive testing results are technologically critical to assure thatthe
performance of WiMAX systems surpass that of competing wireless
communications, such as GSM/GPRS and 3G mobile networks (W-CDMA/cdma
2000). WiMAX technology focuses on ultra high speed data transmission,
and its commercial viability depends heavily on achieving critical
processing figures.
In August 2007, WiMAX commercial licenses were issued to six
operatorsin Taiwan. However, even prior to that time, NEC had been
supporting
local Taiwan WiMAX industries through a variety of channels, including
the cooperative WiMAX certification activity with ADT.
Furthermore, in December 2007, NEC business benefited from
TatungInfoComm's order for a total mobile WiMAX system consisting of
base
stations and peripheral equipment. This was followed up by the
successful evaluation of NEC's Hua-Lien WiMAX system from Taiwan's
Industrial Development Bureau, which marked the first passing grade
for the M-Taiwan project and was subsequently implemented by six
commercial WiMAX operators.
NEC will continue supporting contributions to M-Taiwan's WAVE
2Certification in order to encourage local industries to play a greater
role in Taiwan's development of WiMAX Forum.
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