WiMAX

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Terabeam Wireless is a member of the WiMAX Forum and is thus working with industry members to develop the 802.16 standards, and facilitate the deployment of broadband wireless networks based on those standards by helping to ensure the compatibility and inter-operability of broadband wireless access equipment.

Terabeam Wireless recently announced the selection of the Fujitsu MB87M3400 WiMAX SoC as the standard silicon for integration into Terabeam’s TeraMax™ 3.0 product family. The TeraMax™ 3.0 products will be WiMAX-compliant, will incorporate Terabeam’s new wireless network management operating system, code-named “ Logan ,” and are planned for general availability in the fourth quarter of 2005.

Terabeam will offer turnkey point-to-multipoint and point-to-point systems complying with the IEEE 802.16-2004 WiMAX standard as an extension of its TeraMax™ product series. Current TeraMax™ products have been providing customers with much of the functionality of WiMAX since 2004, such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), adaptive dynamic polling, packet aggregation, and enhanced security options. TeraMax™ base stations, customer premise equipment (CPE), and bridges are available today for operation at multiple frequency bands – including the 4.9GHz band dedicated to public safety in the United States – and are also available in compact (integrated-antenna) and ruggedized enclosures. With a powerful combination of performance, versatility, and value, TeraMax™ systems are ideal for a variety of applications and environments for service providers, enterprises, municipalities, and public safety organizations.

The Fujitsu MB87M3400 is fully compliant with the IEEE 802.16-2004 WiMAX standard and can be configured to be used in both base station and subscriber station applications. It is designed to support frequencies ranging from 2 to 11GHz in both licensed and license-exempt bands. An on-chip OFDM PHY supports channel bandwidths from 1.75MHz up to 20MHz, and can operate in TDD or FDD modes. When applying a 64QAM modulation in a 20MHz channel and using all 192 sub-carriers, the SoC’s data rate can go up to 75 Mbps. The SoC incorporates sophisticated processing power, including a powerful main RISC engine that implements the 802.16 upper-layer MAC, scheduler, drivers, protocol stacks, and user application software. Also on board is a secondary RISC/DSP that functions as a co-processor, which executes lower-layer MAC functions, offloading processing from the upper-layer MAC and enhancing the total SoC performance.

"Logan” has been under development for over three years and was a significant driver of Terabeam’s acquisition in 2004 of KarlNet, Inc. Logan is a processor-agnostic operating system that can support multiple wireless modes (including 802.11 and the proprietary TurboCell ® currently, and 802.16 by 4Q 2005) and is significantly more adaptable for ongoing development. Logan ’s agility and versatility allow for a major streamlining of Terabeam’s software portfolio, and it enables support for quality of service (QoS), voice-over-IP (VoIP), state-of-the-art security and IPv6. Logan ’s user interface and configuration and management tools provide for an enhanced user experience. Logan will be integrated into select Terabeam products throughout the remainder of 2005.

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