Alcatel-Lucent cements WiMAX market leadership with string of new contracts, introduction of Wave 2 technology and expanded terminal partnerships

Alcatel-Lucent cements WiMAX market leadership with string of new contracts, introduction of Wave 2 technology and expanded terminal partnerships

At the Mobile World Congress trade show and exhibition, which opens here today, Alcatel-Lucent is reasserting its commercial leadership in mobile WiMAX, extending its industry-leading position with a string of new customer contracts, the introduction of advanced Wave 2 infrastructure and the further expansion of its open terminal partnership program.

Alcatel-Lucent is coming off its strongest month of WiMAX deal-making to date, having inked Rev-e (IEEE 802.16e-2005) contract wins with Worldmax in the Netherlands and Packet One in Malaysia as well as several additional operators yet to be publicly disclosed. Alcatel-Lucent’s commercial Rev-e deployments worldwide now total 22 – more than any other vendor.

Alcatel-Lucent paved the way for the latest series of full-scale contracts through a slew of trials and commercial deployments in 2007 that generated confidence in the maturity of its Rev-e solutions. To date, seven customers in Europe, three in the Middle East and Africa, five in the Asia-Pacific region and seven in the Americas have signed on to roll out WiMAX services based on Alcatel-Lucent’s Rev-e solution, which supports fixed, nomadic and mobile broadband services. Success across diverse geographies also reflects Alcatel-Lucent’s unique ability to provide the entire set of required technologies and services on its own – from consulting, to design of end-to-end network solutions, to deployment, and operations and support anywhere in the world.

“These wins — which include Tier-1 fixed, mobile as well as convergence-minded greenfield service providers, in both established and high-growth markets — reflect the market’s recognition of the maturity of our product, thanks to our early commitment to WiMAX Rev-e technology back in 2004,” said Karim El Naggar, head of Alcatel-Lucent’s WiMAX activities. “Through the large number of networks we are already powering up worldwide, we’re accumulating unmatched expertise at helping customers smoothly translate WiMAX into a cash-generating broadband business.”

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