German WiMAX Pilot Successful
The town of Erkelenz in North Rhine-Westphalia, helped lay the foundations for the German regional power utility NEW Energie's commercial launch of WiMAX for bandwidth-intensive wireless services such as live multimedia streams, VoIP applications and high-speed Internet access.
The WiMAX pilot, according to a release from Nortel, used German communications consultant tkt teleconsult to deploy a WiMAX network that allowed NEW Energie to provide broadband wireless connections to a selection of small businesses and consumers at speeds of up to 10Mbps, equal to the current fastest fixed DSL services.
NEW Energie expects to launch new broadband wireless services based on Nortel WiMAX technology in the second quarter of 2006 to areas which have little fixed broadband coverage. WiMAX is a next-generation technology that uses advanced wireless transmission techniques to bridge the 'last mile' connection between an operator's network and a user, eliminating the need for fixed copper or cable in the ground.
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