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03 Oct 06

Motorola has momentum on mobile WiMAX

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If WiMAX doesn’t work for Sprint, it doesn’t spell doom for the WiMAX industry. There would still be significant opportunities for the technology with regional players and broadband ISPs, but if WiMAX isn’t a big-carrier play, it certainly can’t justify a big-vendor business.
But those competitive challenges are far off in the future
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- carriers will likely start looking to vendors with much more experience in the core and overall network architectures. Companies with more experience with IMS like Nortel Networks and Nokia-Siemens, or companies with the scale and scope to span wireline and wireless such as a combined Alcatel-Lucent may seem more attractive
- Motorola has nowhere near the scale in networks as it has in handsets, and apart from its video and access portfolios, has little wireline presence to speak of.
- The danger for Motorola, however, could come from own success. The more successfully it spurs on the handset industry, generating devices from multiple vendors, the less the need for a vendor with an end-to-end handset-to-core solution.
- A carrier doesn’t want to train technicians to work on multiple manufacturers’ systems
- It’s possible, even in today’s cellular networks, to interconnect different vendors switches and base station controllers—the interfaces are all open. Carriers choose not to for the sake of simplicity and economics,
- As the No. 2 and No. 3 handset makers, Samsung and Motorola can move WiMAX device development cycles forward in ways a Nortel Networks or an Alcatel can’t.
- It is one of the few carriers that can fill in every variable of the WiMAX equation from core router to handset. It even has a IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) offering for operators looking to converge WiMAX with their existing networks, be they wireline or cellular.
- By locating the RF components in the antenna array, the critical radio base station components are literally up in the air, requiring only a fiber-optic feed to the network controller,
- Motorola has developed what it claims is its own unique “zero-footprint” architecture
- focused on the IEEE 802.16e standard,
- there’s still a profound undercurrent of skepticism in the industry that Sprint’s ‘4G’ plans are an early climax—that the peculiar characteristics of Sprint’s 2.5 GHz spectrum, restrictions placed on the licenses by the Federal Communications Commission and its own technology maverick tendencies make Sprint the exception, not the rule. There is yet no evidence that other major carriers will deploy the technology.
- Not only did it come away with a major piece of Sprint’s multibillion-dollar deployment, it’s guaranteed itself a sizable slot of the wireless ISP business with its investment in Clearwire.
- If any vendor can claim to have momentum on Mobile WiMAX, it’s Motorola.

14 Sep 06

xchange magazine

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Minerva, which Nortel has an existing relationship with, will provide the middleware piece of the Nortel end-to-end IPTV solution for TELUS.
Canadian telco TELUS has tapped Nortel Networks Ltd. to provide end-to-end systems integration for the second phase of its IPTV effort. This second phase aims to bring IMS, VoIP and multimedia into the IPTV fold,