Kyocera, Runcom team for WiMAX devices
By Colleen Taylor -- Electronic News, 1/29/2007
Kyocera Wireless Corp., a San Diego, Calif.-based supplier of CDMA wireless devices and accessories, and Runcom Technologies, an Israel-based purveyor of OFDMA enabling technologies for mobile WiMAX, have inked a development agreement to make WiMAX-enabled consumer electronic devices.
Financial terms of the pairing have not been disclosed.
WiMAX technology has been championed for developing areas by industry heavyweights such as Intel, which last month deployed the standard in rural Egypt, because it delivers high-speed broadband fixed and mobile services wirelessly to large areas using less infrastructure than other wireless protocols. In the same month, Intel announced the completion of its first mobile WiMAX baseband chip. Intel has also undertaken an initiative to deploy WiMAX in southeast Asia.
And according to Kyocera and Runcom, when paired with multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology, WiMAX can deliver mobile services three to five times faster than today's third-generation (3G) standards at a lower cost.
Kyocera and Runcom said they have worked closely over the last several months in the early development of multiple classes of mobile WiMAX terminals, such as PC cards, customer-premises equipment (CPE), residential gateways and others. In these devices, the companies said they anticipate incorporating Runcom's RNA 200 Mobile WiMAX baseband ASIC with MIMO capability.
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