Huawei and NextWave Broadband to Cooperate on WiMAX Interoperability Testing

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. recently teamed up with US-based NextWave Broadband Inc., an arm under the wing of NextWave Wireless Inc., to cooperate in a WIMAX testing and interoperability lab in Nevada.

Mobile WIMAX equipment is capable of mobility, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), and streaming video media, among other applications.

Huawei’s WiMAX 16e system equipment and NextWave Broadband’s first mobile WIMAX chip set had previously been through an informal interoperability test (IOT), in California.

Huawei expects to launch more wireless broadband services like video on demand, video telephone, and file transfer protocol (FTP) download. The company adopted the advanced orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technology and multiple-input multiple-out-put (MIMO) technology to cut the network construction cost and enlarge the network coverage and network capacity.