April 13, 2007
Alcatel-Lucent, the French network communications company, announced earlier in March that it was chosen by Chunghwa Telecom to deploy Taiwan's first Universal WIMAX network (802.16e-2005) in Taoyuan County, according to a press release from Alcatel-Lucent.
The project will allow Alcatel-Lucent to work closely with Taiwanese manufacturers to develop produce customer premise equipment (CPE) and other peripherals, as the company plans to establish a WIMAX interoperability testing (IOT) center in Taiwan.
Alcatel-Lucent has exclusively sought out Taiwan manufacturers to form a cooperative alliance to develop mobile phones, network communications equipment and PDAs for the international WIMAX market, according to Li Peng-yuan, general manager of Alcatel-Lucent in Taiwan.
Li noted that Alcatel-Lucent is engaging in diversification by working with a wide range of Taiwan manufacturers, in contrast to the past, where it worked only with Honhai Precision and ZyXel on ADSL related-products. According to the Economic Daily News, the companies that will serve as Alcatel-Lucent's downstream partners include Wistron, Inventec, HTC, Honhai, and Mediatek, which already has the capacity to produce WIMAX chips.
Together, this "WIMAX ecosystem" should provide a boost to the WIMAX standard and will hopefully spur quicker growth in Taiwan's CPE industry, said Li.
(Economic Daily News, digitalmediaasia.com)
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