WiMAX High Performance Consumer Premise Equipment Antenna

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PCTEL, Inc. (NASDAQ:PCTI), a leader in wireless broadband solutions, today introduced a flexible, high gain, low profile panel antenna solution for WiMAX Consumer Premise Equipment (CPE). PCTEL will be demonstrating its WiMAX antenna solutions at the 2007 WiMAX World Europe Conference held in Vienna, Austria.

This antenna is available with a robust flexible mounting bracket that allows a high degree of elevation and azimuth tilt and can be mounted on a mast or a wall. The antenna housing is also made available with a back plate that can be mated directly to an external CPE radio enclosure. In addition, the antenna can also be provided as a kit without the radome structure for integration into a CPE enclosure for a fully integrated CPE solution. The antenna provides a gain of 18 dBi and covers the 3.4 to 3.6 GHz frequency range.

“As WiMAX trials and deployments pick up pace there is a need for CPE antenna solutions that are not only high performance and cost effective but also provide a great deal of installation flexibility to provide optimal coverage,” said Jeff Miller, General Manager of the Broadband Technology Group. “PCTEL is constantly working to meet the needs of the wireless broadband technology market, WiMAX in particular, with innovative antenna solutions.”

European WiMAX World recently awarded PCTEL second place for its innovative Integrated Variable Electrical Tilt (iVET™) WiMAX base station antenna that PCTEL announced earlier this year. PCTEL is developing a complete range of WiMAX base station antennas using the iVET technology that it acquired as part of its acquisition of Sigma Technologies.