WiMAX Open Patent Alliance military expansion: UQ other four new members

WiMAX Open Patent Alliance (OpenPatentAlliance, OPA) announced that Beceem, GCTSemiconductor, Sequans, and MAX732CPA datasheet and UQ 4 companies formally joined the alliance. OPA was established in June 2008, specifically to support the development and MAX732CPA price and adoption of WiMAX service providers of intellectual property rights (IPR) solution.

Beceem, GCTSemiconductor, Sequans, and MAX732CPA suppliers and UQ as associate members OPA. The current members of the OPA, including Acer, Alcatel Lucent, Alvarion, Cisco, Clearwire, Huawei, Intel and Samsung Electronics.

"All in all, this development momentum in terms of OPA and WiMAX4G is an exciting month." OPA President of the Union Yung Hahn (YungHahn) said, "OPA ecosystem is still concentrated in a wider choice around the world, competitive equipment, WiMAX service cost, components and applications. Now the members have a sufficient number of chip suppliers, OPA can continue to promote the formation of a unique, cohesive WiMAX patent pool to help participating companies from patent owners punished more predictable cost of access to patents. "

2008 Nian 6 months, Cisco, Intel, Samsung, Sprint, Clearwire, Alcatel-Lucent announced the joint establishment of the Big Six and other WiMAX open patent alliance, promised to get WiMAX-related patents, and then licensed to other network device or PC manufacturers.

Beceem is the mobile broadband market semiconductor solutions provider, is the first WiMAX Forum has features for Wave1 and Wave2 end chipset business enterprises, these features are based on the IEEE802.16e-2005 standard.

GCTSemiconductor for the wireless communications industry with innovative IC solutions to fabless semiconductor companies.

Sequans fixed / mobile WiMAX subscriber station and base station chip suppliers, its chips are based on the IEEE802.16-2004 and 802.16e-2005 standard.

UQ WiMAX operator in Japan, recently Intel had just invested $ 43,000,000 for its in Japan, the full deployment of WiMAX. UQ is also the WiMAX camp, after following the United States, another large testing ground for Clearwire.