Nortel Teams up with Runcom to Deliver Industry's First MIMO-Powered Mobile WiMAX Technology
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Advanced 4G Devices to Enable Super-Fast Mobile Broadband Connectivity
DALLAS, Oct. 10 -- Delivery of broadband, media-rich content to mobile users - such as voice, streaming music, video, internet access and multimedia - is taking a significant leap forward with the joint collaboration on new technologies from Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) and Runcom that will enable the development of new, WiMAX-enabled devices.
The new WiMAX technology is planned to support high-bandwidth mobile applications like VoIP, videoconferencing and mobile video over large areas at three to five times the performance and efficiency of current 3G technologies.
Nortel's leadership in 4G Mobile Broadband technologies and Israel-based Runcom Technologies' pioneering developments in chipset technologies for Mobile WiMAX have yielded a collaboration focused on technologies that overcome transmission interruptions and delays that disrupt the real-time quality essential to new high-bandwidth applications.
This new technology called MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) is the focus of Nortel and Runcom's development efforts and is an advanced antenna technology that is used both in transmission and receiver equipment. The Nortel/Runcom collaboration is expected to be the first to deliver MIMO-enabled mobile WiMAX (802.16e) devices, which will be available mid-2007.
"Whether in densely-populated urban environments or sparsely-populated rural areas, WiMAX offers the latest and most popular solution to delivering mobile broadband communications that power economic growth," said Peter MacKinnon, general manager, WiMAX, Nortel and chairman, LG-Nortel. "Nortel's relationship with Runcom lays the groundwork that enables the integration of MIMO - the most compelling technology currently available for powering the future of mobile broadband."
"The strength of MIMO is that it packs 300 percent more performance across the same area as competing WiMAX offerings, requiring fewer cell towers for more efficient transmission of communications. Working with Nortel is giving Runcom the opportunity to bring our high-performance, industry-leading chipset to market and deliver the promise of mobile WiMAX to both the carrier and consumer markets," said Dr. Zion Hadad, founder and chief executive officer, Runcom.
Because Nortel's MIMO technology is able to accommodate several input and output paths simultaneously, it can deliver three times the speed and efficiency at one third the cost compared to competing WiMAX solutions that use alternative technologies. Using the Runcom MIMO chipset, Nortel will deliver leading WiMAX solutions that meet future market requirements.
Nortel is the only WiMAX vendor with products in nearly all mobile technologies currently available across both public and private wireless networks. Nortel also owns dozens of patents in the technologies underlying the WiMAX standard, and the company's eight years of work in OFDM/MIMO technology has culminated with much of its patented technology being accepted as the basis for the global WiMAX industry standard.
About Runcom Technologies Ltd.:
Founded in 1997 in Israel, by Dr. Zion Hadad. Runcom is pioneering the OFDMA technology worldwide by introducing it into international Standard such as DVB-RCT, IEEE802.16-2004 and IEEE.802.16e.
The company holds substantial IPR in OFDMA technology and is focused on silicon solutions for mobile subscriber terminals and base stations. www.runcom.com
About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world's most critical information. Our next-generation technologies, for both service providers and enterprises, span access and core networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications, and help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people with information. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit nortel.com/news.
Source: Nortel
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