WiMAX Devices – Alcatel-Lucent is a leading player in the emergence of an open WiMAX ecosystem. We are driving the early availability of key features by investing in an aggressive interoperability testing (IOT) program, run in WiMAX IOT centers worldwide, as well as by working with over 16 partners — including all major chipset
vendors and a growing list of CPE suppliers. We are also reinforcing commercial CPE offerings through multiple go-to-market partnerships and promotional agreements with device partners. The goal is to stimulate competition,
making the widest possible array of affordable device choices available to operators. To this end, Alcatel-Lucent is actively involved in the WiMAX Forum standardization and certifica- tion process and was a founding member of the Open Patent Alliance, formed to bring transparency to WiMAX-related intellectual property rights.
Alcatel-Lucent 9500 Microwave Packet Radio (MPR)
Packet-optimized backhaul and transport
As broadband wireless technologies like WiMAX bring unprecedented capacity burdens, backhaul and transport networks are becoming more critical than ever. The industry is late in realizing this area repre- sents one of the highest costs in deploying a WiMAX
network. With a wide range of packet-optimized
technology options, Alcatel-Lucent offers valuable ways to optimize both the cost of initial deployment and scaling up capacity over time.
Chief among these packet-optimized technologies
is microwave backhauling, where Alcatel-Lucent has options for WiMAX — the 9500 Microwave Packet Radio, for example, is full IP with high capacity (2Gb/s), and scalability. The entire microwave portfolio inte- grates directly into the WiMAX base station cabinet
for total cost of ownership (TCO) reductions of up to
18 percent. Alcatel-Lucent’s leadership in fixed broad- band also brings cutting-edge technology IP/MPLS aggregation and leverages any existing packet optical infrastructure for transport.
