Intel Enables Rapid Delivery Of WiMAX Networks with New AdvancedMC-Compliant Baseband Card

Intel Enables Rapid Delivery Of WiMAX Networks with New AdvancedMC-Compliant Baseband Card

Intel Corporation today unveiled a new baseband card that helps speed the creation of WiMAX base stations. The Intel NetStructure® WiMAX Baseband Card is Intel’s first integrated hardware and software platform for transport, control and baseband processing in a standards-based Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC)* form factor. The new Intel card enables equipment manufacturers to accelerate time to market and reduce development and lifecycle management costs when building WiMAX base stations. During WiMAX World today in Boston, the company also announced the availability of the Intel® WiMAX Connection 2250, Intel’s next-generation system-on-chip and first designed to support mobile networks and previously supported fixed networks.

Ideal for wireless broadband solutions for business and residential access, the new Intel card is the first standards-based WiMAX baseband module built to the AdvancedMC specification that includes Open Base Station Architecture Initiative* (OBSAI*) interfaces and a full Media Access Controller (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) solution. It also features the Intel® IXP2350 network processor, scheduling and control software and is fully upgradeable from fixed to mobile WiMAX applications.

“With the new Intel NetStructure® WiMAX Baseband Card, Intel continues to advance WiMAX technology and help equipment manufacturers improve the flexibility, development time and cost of wireless broadband solutions,” said Keate Despain, director of marketing of Intel’s Modular Communications Platform Division. “This standards-based, off-the-shelf building block is the solution of choice for manufacturers looking to create WiMAX solutions that can be deployed, operated and upgraded cost effectively.”

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