Intel-Based Commercial WiMAX Networks Under Way With 24 Carriers Worldwide
Redline delivers live interoperability demonstration at the WiMAX Forum Face to Face event
SANTA CLARA, California (BUSINESS WIRE) November 9, 2005 – Thirteen carriers
from around the world are now deploying the world's first fixed WiMAX networks based on Intel Corporation
WiMAX technologies, delivering high-speed broadband access to businesses and residences from Germany
to Guatemala. Eleven more carriers are preparing to deploy additional Intel-based WiMAX networks
by year's end.
Building on the success of WiMAX trials worldwide, carriers are now rolling out full commercial
deployments in cities as well as suburban and rural communities, allowing broadband wireless networks
to reach locations where previously they were either impossible or too costly for carriers to pursue.
"As WiMAX gains momentum in full deployments, homes and businesses gain the ease and power
of cost-effective wireless networking," said Scott Richardson, general manager of Intel's Broadband
Wireless Division. "We are now delivering the promise of WiMAX -- high-speed, cost-effective
wireless broadband access -- to businesses and consumers in cities and suburbs around the world.
" In collaboration with Intel, and using equipment based on the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 5116
broadband interface, commercial networks have now been deployed by the following carriers: Altitude
Telecom(1) (France), AXTEL(1) (Mexico), BEC Telecom, S.A.(1) (Dominican Republic), Dedicado(1) (Uruguay),
Globe/Innove(1) (Philippines), Iberbanda (Spain), Irish Broadband(1) (Ireland), SferaNET(1) (Poland),
Mikkelin Puhelin Oyj(1) and Savonlinnan Puhelin Oy(1) (Finland), Telgua(1) (Guatemala), Ukrainian
High Technologies(1) (Ukraine), and WiMAX Telecom(1) (Austria and Slovakia).
These deployments support a range of uses, from basic high-speed access for homes to Internet telephony,
business connectivity and support for schools and government offices. For example:
Voice over IP (VoIP) services are being offered by BEC Telecom beginning in Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic, and spreading to the rest of the country, while WiMAX Telecom is offering VoIP services
to home users in Burganland, Austria.
Residential and small business users now have access to high-speed Internet, from AXTEL in Monterey,
Mexico and Dedicado in Montevideo, Uruguay to Globe/Innove in Cavite, Philippines and Iberbanda
in Andalusia and Catalonia, Spain.
Schools and government offices can now benefit from cost-effective, high-speed access in areas
including Dublin, Ireland, through a contract with Irish Broadband, and in southern Poland, where
SferaNet is offering WiMAX services to public safety, local government offices and schools.
In addition, several carriers are in the process of deploying WiMAX networks that are expected to
be up and running by the end of the year, including: Americatel Peru S.A.(1) (Peru), Call Plus(1)
(New Zealand), Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd.(1) (Taiwan), DBD Deutsched Breitband Dienste GmbH(1) (Germany),
Digicel(1) (Caribbean), Entel(1) (Chile), Ertach(1) (Argentina), Integrated Telecom Company(1) (Saudi
Arabia), Next Mobile(1) (Philippines), and Taiwan Fixed Networks(1) (Taiwan) and VeloCom(1) (Argentina).
The new WiMAX networks will deliver broadband services to consumers, businesses, schools and public
offices, using Intel-based customer premises equipment from Airspan(1), Alcatel(1), Alvarion(1) and
Redline Communications(1).
These full deployments build upon growing momentum toward widespread WiMAX availability, including
a pledge by the government of Taiwan to invest NT$37 billion (US$1.12 billion) on mobile initiatives,
including WiMAX, and Intel's Asian Broadband Campaign, an initiative in which Intel is working with
governments, telecommunications regulators, education, health and agriculture public sector agencies
and carriers to spur WiMAX development in Southeast Asia.
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and
communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
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About Redline Communications
Redline Communications is a technology leader in the design and manufacture of standards-based broadband
wireless access solutions. Using industry leading OFDM technologies, Redline’s award-winning
products provide unmatched high capacity and non-line-of-sight capabilities with proven performance,
reliability and security. Ideal for a variety of access, backhaul and private network applications,
Redline products meet the needs of carriers, service providers and enterprises worldwide. Redline
is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum™, and was first in the world to market an 802.16 compliant
product. Redline has over 20,000 installations in 75 countries across six continents through a global
distribution network of 80+ partners.
