Telecom industry has changed significantly over the last 10 year and WiMAX Forum has also adopted. Of course most of WiMAX success is happening outside NA. Intel and Clearwire were the key marketing noise for WiMAX and they have their own challenges. Also battle of WIMAX and LTE is 2+ year old and not relevant… Read more →

LTE is now being deployed in the US by Verizon Wireless and Metro PCS, with AT&T and LightSquared to follow (the latter’s LTE deployment depends on resolving the GPS interference issue with the FAA and other U.S. government regulators). Clearwire had announced last year that it had begun testing LTE technology in Phoenix, AZ.  Those Clearwire LTE tests achieved data speeds… Read more →

Market research firm Infonetics Research has released its first quarter 2011 (1Q11) Optical Network Hardware vendor market share report, which finds that the optical network market will experience modest growth this year after a mixed 1Q11.  Highlights from the report:   The global optical network equipment market, including WDM and SDH/SONET equipment, saw a typical… Read more →