Motorola Wins WiMAX World Europe Award in Devices Category

VIENNA, Austria ? WiMAX World Europe ? 31 May 2007 ? xchange announced today that Motorola has been selected to receive the WiMAX World Europe 2007 Award for the Motorola CPEi 200/300 series WiMAX desktop unit in the Devices Category. The awards recognize leaders in the development and deployment of WiMAX technologies. Nominations were open to exhibitors and sponsors of the WiMAX World Europe Conference, being held May 29-31, in Vienna, Austria, and selected by a judging panel of experts from the WiMAX community.

Wavesat Announces Availability of World's First 5.8 GHz WiMAX Mini-PCI Design

Dorval, Canada -- Wavesat, a leading designer of WiMAX 802.16d-2004 & .16e-2005 solutions announced the immediate availability of its 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI reference design. Wavesat's 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI design is optimized to allow equipment manufacturers worldwide to rapidly bring WiMAX equipment to market.

The reference design in the form of an extended length Mini-PCI card facilitates system designs by providing a plug-and-play complete solution for the lower layer air interface and time critical low-level MAC functionality. It allows equipment manufacturers to tailor the motherboard providing the higher layer application processor and peripherals according to their specific needs, hence providing greater flexibility and reducing development efforts.

The 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI design is a development platform supporting ODMs efforts to design WiMAX-compliant wireless devices for the 5.8 GHz unlicensed band using Wavesat's Evolutive WiMAX DM256 chip. Based on the WiMAX Forum profile, the 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI design greatly simplifies the overall WiMAX CPE design, enabling customers to bring WiMAX solutions to market faster and more cost-efficiently, while allowing for flexibility to address further changes driven by the WiMAX emerging market dynamics, application diversity and customer profiles.

"Wavesat's WiMAX Mini-PCI reference designs offer OEMs and ODMs the unique opportunity to quickly develop a low BOM subscriber unit with minimum NRE investment and risk by using existing broadband CPE platforms," commented Vijay Dube, VP Marketing and Business Development for Wavesat. "Because 5.8 GHz is an unlicensed frequency band, it can be rapidly deployed by Wireless Internet Service Providers (WiSPs) around the world and especially in North America, where it is the only WiMAX Forum profile currently deployable."

In-Stat releases WiMAX equipment vendor market shares for 2006

According to In-Stat, WiMAX equipment pioneers vendors Alavarion, Aperto, Redline and Airspan held onto their dominant market positions for 2006, despite high-profile service provider wins by Samsung, Nokia Siemens, and Motorola. However, In-Stat does expect the situation to change as Sprint starts its network deployment. WiMAX equipment includes base stations, gateways and modems, and laptop cards.

"While the early pioneers of WiMAX should lose their market share dominance over the next couple of years, they should continue to grow their revenues, benefiting from the overall growth of the market. These vendors continue to win larger contracts with higher profile service providers," says Daryl Schoolar, In-Stat analyst.

Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
At the end of 2006, there were 213.3k WiMAX subscribers, worldwide.
Almost all of those subscribers were found in Eastern Europe, North Africa/Middle East, and the Asia/Pacific Region.
Due to delays in 802.16e certification, In-Stat now believes the life cycle for 802.16d equipment will be longer than originally forecasted.

About the study
The In-Stat research, "2006 WiMAX Equipment Market Share–Waiting to Sprint" (#IN0703882WBB), provides worldwide WiMAX equipment market shares for 2006. It includes total equipment market shares for 2006, market shares for base station revenues, market shares for both CPE revenue and shipments, and a subscriber forecast, broken out by region. Equipment includes base stations, gateways/modems, and laptop cards.

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.