SOMA Networks Demonstrates Continued Progress Towards Mobile WiMax™ Certification
Company participates in WiMAX Forum® second public, Mobile WiMAX PlugFest; Tests FlexMAX™ Mobile WiMAX System Interoperability
SAN FRANCISCO — February 13, 2007 — SOMA Networks, Inc., a leading provider of Mobile WiMAX technology, today announced significant progress towards Mobile WiMAX certification following participation in the WiMAX Forum® second public, Mobile WiMAX™ PlugFest. The event takes place in Malaga, Spain from February 11-17, 2007, and tests interoperability between SOMA’s FlexMAX™ Mobile WiMAX System and other IEEE 802.16e-2005-based systems. This event marks the next phase of interoperability testing intended to prepare vendors for Mobile WiMAX certification by the WiMAX Forum, which is scheduled to begin in mid 2007.
“We are very pleased with the progress and results to date from this week’s testing, which builds on our participation at the previous Mobile WiMAX PlugFest,” stated Tom Flak, Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at SOMA Networks. “By pre-testing the ability of the FlexMAX System components to operate effectively with numerous companies’ equipment, we can check for any technical interoperability issues in the actual test setting, and demonstrate our continued advancement prior to submission for WIMAX certification.”
"With more than 30 companies participating in this latest Mobile WiMAX Forum PlugFest, there is strong momentum and a clear commitment by the WiMAX ecosystem," said Ron Resnick, president and chairman of the WiMAX Forum. "By the contributions of SOMA Networks and the other PlugFest participants, these WiMAX Forum interoperability events continue to show a significant leap ahead with maturity of mobile WIMAX products. Additionally, the experience gained at these PlugFests is critical to improve quality of interoperability testing and to maintain our accelerated path to WiMAX Forum Certification."
“We are committed to bridging the digital divide in rural areas around the world, ensuring service providers can universally offer broadband access to their customers,” added Flak. “SOMA Networks is rapidly progressing towards delivery of one of the first commercially-ready Mobile WiMAX offerings, to support our vision of enabling our customers to connect the next billion people.”
SOMA Networks’ FlexMAX Mobile WiMAX System is a complete broadband wireless system portfolio that allows carriers to offer high-margin applications and a superior subscriber experience to residential and SoHo consumers. Advanced antenna technologies allow for the widest coverage area and maximum revenue, while enabling low market entry and expansion costs. The FlexMAX System includes: base stations, multiple types of mobile station devices, advanced multi-antenna processing, traffic management middleware, integrated applications, network management and network gateways — all backed by world-class partners, global field support and professional services.
About WiMAX Forum
The WiMAX Forum is an industry-led, non-profit corporation formed to help promote and certify the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products using the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN wireless MAN specifications. The forum's goal is to accelerate the introduction of these devices into the marketplace. WiMAX Forum Certified products will be fully interoperable and support Metropolitan Broadband Fixed, Portable and Mobile Applications. For more information about the WiMAX Forum and its activities, please visit www.wimaxforum.org. “WiMAX Forum” is a registered trademark of the WiMAX Forum. “WiMAX,” the WiMAX Forum logo, “WiMAX Forum Certified,” and the WiMAX Forum Certified logo are trademarks of the WiMAX Forum. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
About SOMA Networks
SOMA Networks, a broadband wireless access market leader, enables communications providers to realize fastest time to market, highest average revenue per subscriber and shortest path to return on investment with the industry’s only converged all-IP wireless multimedia applications platform. The FlexMAX platform provides unmatched QoS, subscriber density, and cell coverage to deliver wireline performance over a broadband wireless infrastructure. Service providers worldwide deploy SOMA’s award winning base stations and subscriber gateways because of its superior business case, deployability, support for spectrum bands ranging from 700 MHz through 3.5 GHz, multi-megabit data rates, superior voice quality, non-line-of-sight access, and subscriber self-installation and service activation. A principal member of the WiMAX Forum™, SOMA Networks is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Delhi, and Singapore. For more information: http://www.somanetworks.com.
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