Monday, 1 October 2007

WiMAX World USA Industry Choice Award Goes to Motorola

Motorola has received the “people’s choice” Industry Choice Best of WiMAX World USA 2007 Award for its WiMAX CPEi 800/850 Series Desktop CPE.

Selected from field of 16 finalists, the CPEi 800/850 Series Desktop CPE is the second generation, WiMAX 802.16e Wave 2 ready desktop wireless broadband modem portfolio. It provides fixed, wireless broadband connections to bandwidth intensive, media rich applications leveraging voice, data, WiFi and video services. With its “plug-and-play” functionality, it acts as a compact communications center for advanced home communication.

Motorola said it is involved in 40 WiMAX trial deployments with customers around the world and has contracts with 12 of them for commercial WiMAX systems.

“This award further recognizes that Motorola continues to lead the industry in wireless broadband technologies,” said Fred Wright, senior vice president, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility. “We are very pleased to win this award and to be recognized by the industry, customers and vendors alike as the industry’s choice for WiMAX.”