Certification is a multi stage process. The first set of certs is purely
political, you are right. Wave 1 is merely an equipment level handshake. It
is not until Wave 2 testing that the critical features needed by operators
will be tested. Our solution is already beyond that (we have over 50 full
commercial deployments with BreezeMAX) so we had initially planned to go
straight to Wave 2. But Wave 1 is taking so long and the market has the
mistaken impression that if you do not have Wave 1 complete than you are
behind. So we will get our Wave 1 stamp.

It is important to recognize that just having Wave 1 means nothing in the
long or even mid term, since anyone with a Wave 1 cert will have to go back
and get a Wave 2. Each later Wave is higher in value and represents a more
complex system. Many small vendors will not make it beyond Wave 2.

Patrick Leary
AVP Marketing
Alvarion, Inc.
o: 650.314.2628
c: 760.580.0080
Vonage: 650.641.1243

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Wu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 10:46 AM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: RE: [WISPA] 3650 equipment

To say the least -- a highly upsetting (to many operators) isse about WiMAX
is the fact that not all WiMAX is created equal...

Sure, WiMAX talks about QoS, ARQ, encryption, scheduled MACs, etc -- but is
it required for base certification today?

Hehe

-Charles

P.S. -- BREAKING NEWS FOR WISP types -- I saw a WORKING DEMO of a MINI-PCI
WiMAX card for 3.5

Some interesting CPE makers (they all use this mini-pci WiMAX card inside)

http://www.ente.com.pl/default.aspx?docId=2555&mId1=2509

http://www.winetworks.com/products_win2000.html

"The Book" CPE (IMO - quite nifty looking)
http://www.quadmaxsystems.se/products.php

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CWLab
Technology Architects
http://www.cwlab.com 



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Patrick Leary
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:00 PM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: RE: [WISPA] 3650 equipment


All WiMAX vendors will have some version of this type of CPE since that is a
mandatory requirement for licensed band operators. Each will have their own
attempts at special sauce to differentiate their offering. It will get very
interesting come fall (which is not to say that these last 8 years have not
been interesting!)

Patrick 

-----Original Message-----
From: George Rogato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:15 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] 3650 equipment

Patrick Leary wrote:
> A. More power Tom. B. Much more sophistication in the equipment 
> yielding much higher spectral efficiency and system gain.
> 
> Frequency plays a major role, but you need to understand that other
factors
> are of almost similar levels of importance. For example, our 802.16e
version
> of WiMAX uses SOFDMA with beam forming and 4th order diversity at the 
> base station and MIMO with 6 antennae embedded in the self-install CPE 
> with a
SIM
> card. Couple that with higher power available in a licensed allocation 
> and you get zero truck roll self-install CPE with no external antenna.
> 
> Patrick Leary
> AVP Marketing
> Alvarion, Inc.
> o: 650.314.2628
> c: 760.580.0080
> Vonage: 650.641.1243

I don't know how much more we cn ask for, "zero truck roll self install"

How well does it penetrate trees and what kind of bal park pricing are 
we talking here.

Please throw something out there for pricing.

Thanks

George

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