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WiMAX blooms at Broadcast Asia 2008 ( June, Singapore)
Amitabh Kumar
http://www.wimax-home.com
If there was anyone who needed to be convinced that WiMAX is here and will indeed be as revolutionary a technology as it is touted to be, all that one needed to do was to visit Boradcast Asia and ComminicAsia 2008 ( 17-20th June 2008) Singapore.
Being a convergence event with Broadcasting, Communications and Interactive DME ( digital media and content), it is one of the most effective forum for a technology showcase of unprecedented magnitude.
If one was willing to look beyond the Super High Definition TV which was showcased for the first time and hogged media attention, it was the IPTV and the WiMAX based media services which were present as a bedrock of technological stratum.
All the WiMAX majors were present, offering, for the first time a full ecosystem for Mobile WiMAX and its applications. The ecosystem included base station equipment. Antennas, ASN gateways, Customer premises equipment (CPEs), WiMAX enablers( Plug in devices and PC cards) , gaming devices. Applications on display included WiMAX gaming, Broadband internet access and WiMAX TV, the later being the most prominent display.
The prime displays were in the ZTE and the FlyVo exhibits amongst other vendors. The ZTE pavilion was a showcase of every aspect of WiMAX technology and displayed some of the CPEs which will be used in the XOHM network of USA.The FlyVo pavilion was alive with displays of WiMAX IPTV and a variety of adopters and gaming devices for Mobile WiMAX.
SK Telesys was displaying its ecosystem of Mobile WiMAX compliant with IEEE 802.16e-2007.Deployment of WiMAX applications today, which are dominated by the Mobile devices complaint with 3GPP requires the use of IMS( IP Multimedia system), and this one of the offereings of SK Telesys i.e. a VoD and VoIP service offerings platform using Mobile WiMAX integrated with the IMS. ( See http://www.wimaxbook.net/bookcontents.aspx). Also on display were a variety of base stations, RAS, ASN gateways and management systems. One of the unique offerings included the Access point with Distributed Radio Structure) with WIMAX forum wave 2 compliance. Optical repeaters and Micro/ Pico base stations were the other elements.
WiMAX and Mobile transmitters were on display from Axcera. These included the transmitters for DVB-H,DVB-SH,MediaFLO , WiMAX and Wireless ( DOCSIS) transmitters and gapfillers.