Nortel picked LTE because they were DE-SELECTED from WiMax

The WiMax biz went to Motorola, Samsung and Nokia....Nortel was never even a player. Boo-hoo....

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/032706-should-nortel-exit.html

They are also in bed with Verizon and will support anything they do.....like tell the world WiMax is bad, LTE is good, to further Verizon's business agenda.

What they don't tell you is that the carriers (Verizon, AT&T) fear WiMax because it will be an OPEN standard. This is why Google is behind it and Verizon is not. Verizon wants a "locked down" market where all devices are controled by Verizon. Clearwire & Google want an open market and don't care......just login to the WiMax network with whatever divice and pay a fee for usage of the network and Google gets the portal and eyeballs for their ads.

Don't pay attention to the WiMax FUD. WiMax is real and it is here today operating in over 100 countries. LTE has not even been certified as a standard and won't be until early 2009 at best.

Verizon & AT&T are trying to play catch-up and will try to make it appear that WiMax is dead. Don't buy into the lies.....it is Karl Rovian tactics and they will stop at nothing to impede the success of WiMax.

I am not at all surprised at why Nortel is taking such an aggressive stance and developing a number of strategic initiatives and partnerships. Nortel's biggest competition is seen in Cisco and their market share speaks for itself.

One point which caught my attention was the Verizon partnership with Nortel and their decision to use Nortel's ERS 8600 swtiches. Being a reseller of both Nortel and Cisco switches, I do know for a fact that the 8600 series switches from Nortel do pack a large feature set and excellent performance. But is there any data revealed by Verizon or Nortel explaining the reason for the 8600 series switch selection and how come Cisco wasn't being aggressive in this?

yogesh@infinit-tech.com
http://www.infinit-tech.com/Nortel-Switches.php

What happens when you lose a match. You say I look forward to the next one. So it has lost its WiMAX match, largely due its own wrong priorities. Instead of actually building equipment and optimizing it for actual deployments, they tried to play the technology/patents game. Trust me if they cannot win in WiMAX, what makes them a winner in LTE which is based on the same OFDM technology. I think Nortel is a loser.

Mark my words. WiMAX will win big and forever change the mobile broadband landscape.

A true sign that a good technology/product is going to die is when Nortel backs it...I am still reeling from they way they destroyed Bay Networks.

A true sign that a good technology/product is going to die is when Nortel backs it...I am still reeling from they way they destroyed Bay Networks.

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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.