Six months after buying its way into WiMAX via an acquisition of WiMAX radio vendor Navini Networks, Cisco is showing off Navini’s beamforming technology at work at service provider Xanadoo, reports Computworld. Cisco mixes beamforming with MIMO to boost wireless signals, according to the story. Computerworld quotes Marshall Pagon, chairman and CEO of Xanadoo as saying that the company evaluated other technologies but found “the Cisco signal is stronger and has greater throughput.”
So far, Xanadoo has only about 300 subscribers served by eight WiMax sites in Springfield after a soft launch last year, but that number will grow tremendously, according to the Computerworld story.
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