Recent wi4 WiMAX 802.16e contract win, product announcements and shipments advance Motorola delivery of personal broadband solutions

Following its recent announcement of the world’s first nationwide 802.16e WiMAX network in Pakistan, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today continues its aggressive leadership in WiMAX technology with plans to develop a comprehensive ecosystem for personal broadband ”on the go.”

The commitment furthers the company’s MOTOwi4 strategy and extends its recent product introductions — including a carrier-class WiMAX access point — by incorporating plans to work with multiple chipset suppliers to help ensure that a proliferation of WiMAX enabled devices are available at attractive prices to meet the anticipated global demand for WiMAX technology.

“Motorola recognizes the momentum a vibrant ecosystem will bring to advancing the widespread adoption of WiMAX,” said Dan Coombes, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Motorola Networks and Enterprise. “Motorola would like to drive the ecosystem to widespread adoption and support for WiMAX chipsets, and by driving an end-to-end architecture for personal broadband, Motorola is poised to deliver all the solutions necessary to help operators meet growing needs for greater bandwidth, simpler networks and true mobility.”

Motorola is building on its previously announced relationship with Intel to promote 802.16e WiMAX by working with other technology leaders to ensure there will be a complete ecosystem for delivering the benefits of WiMAX and for demonstrating its value proposition at every point—from WiMAX-enabled handsets and customer premise equipment to basestations, PC cards and chipsets.

WiMAX is a converged network solution capable of delivering everything from voice to video and broadcast within one architecture model. With WIMAX, carriers are able to deploy next-generation IP networks now that are cost effective and technically advanced for delivering multimedia services.

“There are really many different answers to the question of �why WiMAX?’” Coombes said. “WiMAX provides a critical technology for enabling and ensuring seamless mobility among such technologies as cellular, broadband wireless, WiFi, and wireline, and can be used by many types of operators to meet their specific business case and needs.”

For example, existing service providers can overlay 2G cellular networks with WiMAX, while 3G operators can leverage WiMAX to improve backhaul operations. New entrants, like Wateen in Pakistan, also can benefit by using WiMAX for greenfield installations of broadband networks.

Motorola, a key participant in the WiMAX industry, has been a principal member of the WiMAX Forumв„ў since 2004, and has been an active contributor to the IEEE 802.16 committees, especially those focused on mobility and internetworking.

Contracts include integration and deployment services, IMS Core and MOTOwi4в„ў WiMAX solutions

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today announced that it has been selected as primary supplier to Wateen Telecom, part of Warid Telecom International, to plan, design and deploy a nationwide wireless broadband voice and data network in Pakistan, with initial deployment to be completed by the second half of 2006. The Motorola solutions and integration services are the first step for Wateen to make Broadband Pakistan a reality and usher in a digital revolution, providing the access network, subscriber units, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core and services to quickly and cost-effectively connect the unconnected.

The 802.16e-based MOTOwi4 WiMAX access network and subscriber units will enable Wateen Telecom to offer broadband data services covering residential and corporate voice, Internet access, corporate IP virtual private network (VPN) and public hotspots.

Tariq Malik, Wateen Telecom, commented, “We are committed to deploying Pakistan’s first nationwide network – the largest 802.16e WiMAX network in the world with over one million users – and to enabling access to a range of voice, Internet, data and value-added services via the network. This is an important milestone in realizing our vision of �Broadband Pakistan’ and eliminating the digital divide by providing coverage to areas that are currently underserved.”

Malik added, “Motorola’s global strength and unique approach provide us with a turnkey offering for VoIP and data services for both residential and corporate users. Motorola’s IMS core solution will simplify service delivery, strengthening our current and future regional market position.”

Integration with Motorola’s IMS solution will enable Wateen Telecom to offer consumers voice services using VoIP (voice-over-IP) including enhanced residential voice features such as caller ID, voice mail and call forwarding. Differentiated services such as pre-paid and simple web-based subscriber account management are also included. For business customers, Wateen Telecom will offer a hosted VoIP solution with traditional business PBX and IP Centrex voice services such as conferencing, integrated with services that include find me/follow me and PC desktop integration.

Carrier-class WiMAX solution delivers rich-media downloads and video streaming to laptop via PC card

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) continues to show its WiMAX leadership with the latest addition to its MOTOwi4™ portfolio of wireless broadband solutions. At WiMAX World Europe, Motorola’s new carrier-class WiMAX network will be used to perform rich media downloads and video streaming through a laptop PC using a third-party PCMCIA card that incorporates an 802.16e chip from Beceem Communications.

This is Motorola’s first public demonstration of third-party interoperability of its WiMAX products and shows how Motorola’s MOTOwi4 wireless broadband solutions can help people stay seamlessly connected wherever they may be. At its booth #202 Motorola also will be featuring live demonstrations of its 802.16e-based Ultra Light Access Point for 3.5 GHz fixed applications, Canopy® solutions in 5 GHz spectrum, and IP video telephony all connected through an IMS core.

The Motorola carrier-class WiMAX network, supporting both 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz, is an 802.16e solution that uses advanced antenna techniques to provide greater coverage range and building penetration. Designed to support fixed, nomadic, portable and mobile applications, the carrier-class WiMAX access point will meet the needs of operators offering in-building fixed and portable service, as well those marketing personal broadband, mobile WiMAX applications and services.

“The carrier-class WiMAX network shows our further progress in delivering a broad range of end-to-end WiMAX offerings,” said Dan Coombes, senior vice president, chief technical officer, Motorola Networks & Enterprise, and general manager, Wireless Broadband. “As we continue development of our WiMAX infrastructure and customer premise equipment, we’re working with third-party vendors to test for and promote interoperability, which is critical to widespread industry adoption of the 802.16e standard and this new technology.”

“Demonstrating interoperability of IEEE 802.16e standards-based equipment between Beceem’s terminal chipset and Motorola’s network within six months of the standard’s approval shows the commitment of key WiMAX Forum™ members to work together to ensure that operators have a full range of WIMAX equipment available for their network trials and deployments,” said Shahin Hedayat, CEO and co-founder of Beceem. “We are focused on the development of mobile WiMAX solutions that support interoperability of chipsets, access networks and subscriber devices, and our 802.16e terminal chipsets are achieving this goal today.”

“Motorola continues to be a leading promoter of WiMAX, developing a portfolio of end-to-end 802.16e WiMAX solutions for many different market needs – from compact “light” base stations through high-capacity carrier-class products integrating multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO),” said Peter Jarich, Current Analysis. “Motorola’s demonstration of interoperability with third-party vendors is another significant step in helping to advance the development of and acceptance of WiMAX and getting a jumpstart on 802.16e-based WiMAX certifications.”

Motorola’s carrier-class WiMAX network is based on its Carrier Access Point architecture, an all-IP fully distributed peer-to-peer architecture that reduces the amount of equipment needed thereby helping to reduce capital expenditures. The carrier-class WiMAX access points also feature a combination of MIMO antenna techniques and software defined radios (SDR) that, along with the IP architecture, provides flexibility in network deployment and enables operators to choose among many third-party vendors to add applications and services.

Motorola’s carrier-class WiMAX networks are expected to ship for customer trials by the end of 2006 while the Ultra Light Access Point is already shipping for customer trials.