CISCO GOES TO WIMAX BUSINESS

Chief Development Officer and EVP Charlie Giancarlo 3 years ago said Cisco is " not interested in WiMax " also he said "Other than providing the backbone infrastructure that may be behind any WiMax deployment, Cisco is not invested in WiMax, DSL and cable are [already] there, and they are much more deterministic. Why would anyone build two parallel [wireless broadband] networks? Perhaps it will provide a better technology for hotspots like airports, but I still maintain that the case for WiMax is challenging at the moment." at the Next Generation Network conference in Boston. But now Cisco position on WiMax changed, they announced that they seeing Wireless Broadband technology to broad deployment of IP network, said " Cisco® has no current plans to build WiMAX base stations or base stations using any other WAN radio access technology. Where Cisco will participate is in partnership with RAN vendors. Cisco will provide IP technology for next-generation base stations, and our RAN partners will provide the RF component. Cisco will also provide the IP infrastructure to network these next-generation base stations together, and Cisco will provide the IP services layer. " so they are looking for few WiMax vendors whose done quite good enough WiMax deployment around the world. Cisco target is one of Alvarion, Aperto, Navini and Redline companies. Most available company is Alvarion, they are almost 170 deployments 220 active trails, including more than 40 Mobile WiMax. American giants AT&T and DigitalBridge communication's choice and fast growing stock ($14.69 on friday, market cap $923.5 million) hopes will help them to compete Chinese big network manufacturer competitors Huawei, ZTE whose began their WiMax business already.