Fujitsu and Navini Show Industry’s First Interoperability Demonstration Using Beamformed Mobile WiMAX™

Fujitsu and Navini Show Industry's First Interoperability Demonstration Using Beamformed Mobile WiMAX™

Navini Networks and Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. have announced the first demonstration of multi-vendor interoperability using Smart WiMAX technology – the conjunction of smart beamforming with Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) on a Mobile WiMAX (802.16e) network. Smart WiMAX systems will provide an estimated doubling of system capacity, while offering up to twice the coverage of simple WiMAX networks in a fully mobile setting.

The demonstration, the first in the industry between two different vendors, took place in Navini’s test facility in Richardson, Texas, using Navini’s Ripwave® MX8 base station running Mobile WiMAX software and a CPE reference design prototype based on the Fujitsu MB86K21 802.16e-2005 Mobile WiMAX chip. Smart WiMAX beamformed connectivity was achieved using “dedicated pilots,” a mandatory feature for all Wave 2 Mobile Station subscriber devices required for certification under published WiMAX Forum profiles.