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| OKI and Huawei Collaborate in Mobile WiMAX Business Oki Electric Industry and Huawei Technologies have announced an agreement to collaborate in the mobile WiMAX business to the telecom carriers in Japan. OKI will provide Huawei's mobile WiMAX Series products to telecom carriers in Japan starting in the fiscal year ending March 2008. OKI will also provide its products globally with the support of Huawei. Mobile WiMAX has been attracting attention as a communication technology to enable users to access information. It can be used, for example, for higher-speed mobile communication amongst 3G mobile phone users in the metropolitan area, or to enable those living in suburban areas, where laying out fiber lines or ADSLs can be difficult, to access services through a wireless system. With this collaboration, OKI will provide total solutions to telecom carriers in Japan. It will offer network equipment such as WiMAX base stations and base station control equipment for infrastructure, built-in terminals and PCMCIA card terminals. It will also offer services to evaluate, adjust and improve equipment as well as to provide maintenance service from its offices located in 300 locations throughout Japan. As a value added reseller (VAR), OKI will customize Huawei's mobile WiMAX products for the telecom carriers in Japan. OKI will also develop its own WiMAX-WiFi converter, WiMAX communication module for embedded systems, and indoor base station solutions such as pico cells. For base station solutions in particular, OKI plans to develop solutions with the support from Huawei. Huawei, on the other hand, will develop applications and customize products based on OKI's marketing information, to promote mobile WiMAX products suited to Japan. It will improve end-to-end WiMAX solutions worldwide by incorporating OKI's WiMAX terminals and indoor base station solutions into Huawei's WiMAX products. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |