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Nortel Networks

Eliza Nguyen on October 15, 2009 | 1 comment

Nortel Networks, one of North America’s largest telecom equipment manufacturers, decided to quit the telecom sector. The corporation specializes in core network switching, wireless, and optical systems. Its wireline and enterprise network equipment includes systems for digital voice and data switching, routing, and call center communications. The company’s wide variety of products ranges from cellular base station over security to long-haul fiber-optic products such as multiplexers and switches. The company also offers services like network implementation, management, and software development. On January 14, 2009, Nortel filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Nortel Networks, which was formerly also known as Northern Telecom Limited, is now liquidating its assets.

Focus Applilcations

Customer Contact (Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), IP Contact Center, Multimedia Customer Contact, Self-Service)

LAN, MAN & WAN (Ethernet & Metro Routing Switches, Multiservice Switches, Secure Routers, WLAN)

Optical Networks (Multiservice SONET/SDH, Network Management, Optical Ethernet, Optical Switches, Storage Connectivity, WAN Optimization, Wavelength Division Multiplexers)

Phones, Clients & Accessories (Business Series Phones, Digital Phones, IP Phones, Wireless Phones)

Security & VPN (Firewalls, Network Access Control, Secure Routers, VPN)

Voice, Multimedia & Unified Communications (IP-Enabled & Pure IP Carrier Networks, IP-Enabled & Pure IP Enterprise Networks, PBXs & Key Systems, Wireless for SMB)

Wireless Networks (CDMA Networks, GSM & UMTS Networks, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Municipal Wireless, WLAN, WiMAX, Wireless Mesh)

Significant Developments

Date	Event	Details
8/10/2009	Top Executive Change	Mike S. Zafirovski resigned.
6/26/2009	Exchange/Ticker Change	The company changed from NYSE: NT to Pink Sheets: NRTLQ.
1/14/2009	Bankruptcy Filing	The company voluntarily filed for bankruptcy protection.
12/01/2006	Auditor Change	The company dismissed Deloitte & Touche LLP.
12/01/2006	Auditor Change	The company named KPMG LLP as its new auditor.
11/15/2005	Top Executive Change	Mike S. Zafirovski succeeded William A. Owens, who retired.
10/17/2005	Top Executive Change	The company announced that Mike S. Zafirovski will succeed the retiring William A. Owens on 11/15/2005.

Executives

Chairperson – David I. Richardson

EVP, CFO, and Chief Restructuring Officer – Pavi S. Binning

CIO – Steven J. (Steve) Bandrowczak

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary – Gordon A. Davies

Chief Procurement Officer – Don McKenna

Quick Facts

Company Type: Public – Pink Sheets: NRTLQ

Headquarters: Toronto, Canada

Total Employees: 30,307 (in 2008)

Year Of Founding or Change In Control: 1982… Read the rest

Aperto Networks

Eliza Nguyen on October 15, 2009 | 1 comment

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Aperto Networks provides wireless networking equipment that expands wireless broadband service to customers over the last mile. Its PacketWave and PacketMAX product lines (the latter using WiMax technology) include radio frequency base stations, antennas, and customer premise equipment. The company’s products have been deployed by over 60 countries and deliver converged voice, data, and video services to hundreds of thousands of end users. Aperto Networks has received equity financing from Alliance Ventures, Quicksilver Ventures, Canaan Partners, Stratex Networks, and Innovacom, among others.

Focus Applications

Access Service Network (ASN) Gateway
Connectivity Services Network (CSN) elements
Switching and routing
Billing and rating
VoIP and IMS
TDMoIP
PacketMax
WaveCenter EMS (carrier-class management system)

Executives

President and CEO – Brian Deutch

VP Operations – Glenn Tamaru

CFO – Miles Mochizuki

VP Engineering – Behrooz Parsay

SVP Worldwide Sales – Bill Waters

Quick Facts

Company Type: Private
Headquarters: Milpitas, California

Total Employees: 90 (2008)
Year Of Founding or Change In Control: 1998… Read the rest

DragonWave Inc.

Kathleen Regalado (Kathleen@goingwimax.com) on October 9, 2009

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DragonWave Inc. designs, develops and manufactures carrier-grade microwave equipment offering high capacity broadband wireless systems for network operators and service providers worldwide.

Founded in 2000, DragonWave has enabled service providers to meet high demand by offering high speed, high capacity solutions which allow the service provider to rapidly expand and augment their network to support full-feature applications, such as streaming video and IPTV.

DragonWave whose corporate headquarters are located in Ottawa, Ontario, have a network of distributor and reseller partners globally and offices in Europe and the Middle East. Their products are widely deployed in more than 42 countries. Some of their customers include Carriers, Service Providers, Utilities, WISP’s and Enterprises.

DragonWave, along with other vendors, is helping wireless service provider Clearwire build a nationwide network in the United States, based on WiMax technology.

Executives

President and CEO – Peter Allen

VP Operations – David Farrar

VP, Finance and CFO – Russell Frederick

CTO and VP, Engineering – Erik Boch

VP Sales – Brian McCormack

VP Product Management – Alan Solheim

Marketing Communications Manager – Nadine Kittle

Quick Facts

Headquarters : Toronto, Canada

Company Size : 111 employees (in 2008)

Public – Toronto: DWI

Founded : 2000… Read the rest

ZTE

admin on October 6, 2009 | 3 comments

ZTE is a leading global provider of fixed line and mobile telecommunications equipment and network solutions. ZTE’s product range is the most complete in the world – covering virtually every sector of the wireline, wireless and terminal markets.

ZTE offers its customers a unique range of services. The company delivers innovative, custom-made products and services to operators in more than 100 countries, helping them to achieve continued revenue growth and to shape the future of the world’s communications.

ZTE commits around 10% of annual revenue to research and development and takes a leading role in a wide range of international bodies developing emerging telecoms standards.

ZTE is the fastest growing telecoms equipment supplier in the world, and China’s only listed telecoms manufacturer, with shares publicly traded on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. ZTE was the only Chinese IT and telecoms manufacturer listed in BusinessWeek’s 2005 Top 100 Information Technology Companies. In 2005, the company had over 27,000 employees, and operations in more than 100 countries.

ZTE USA Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of ZTE and has its Headquarters in Dallas, TX, with additional offices in New Jersey and California. ZTE USA is leveraging ZTE’s proven strength in IP and wireless technologies, strong R&D resources and strategic industry partnerships to bring innovative wireless network solutions, mobile handsets and fixed-mobile convergence CPE solutions to customers across the USA. In particular, ZTE USA is focused on developing a strong USA presence with its All-IP CDMA2000 1x, EV-DO, and CDMA2000 push-to-talk network solutions, mobile handsets, Digital Home Gateway convergence solutions and WiMAX.… Read the rest

Tatung

admin on September 23, 2009 | 3 comments

Tatung Telecom Corporation (TTC) is an affiliate of Tatung Company of Taiwan, a US$7 billion strong corporation that is one of the most prominent manufacturers in Asia. With headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley, USA, and manufacturing facilities in Asia, TTC is defining, designing, manufacturing and marketing superior quality advanced telecommunications products.

Tatung InfoComm was formerly the Tatung Company’s WiMAX Business Unit, which charged with the “M-Taiwan (Mobile Taiwan)” project by the Industrial Development Bureau. The Taiwan Government issued an open call for WiMAX application proposals in 2007 and Tatung InfoComm was granted a WiMAX operation license to service the southern region of Taiwan, along with other Telecom companies including Global Mobile and FET, on November 19th, 2008.

TTC focuses on design and manufacturing of latest generation wireless local loop terminal equipments, wireless telemetry network systems, network management system used by service providers worldwide, intelligent PSTN and wireless payphones, VOIP products, public and private Internet access devices, and electronic payment solutions. TTC provides private label manufacturing to telecom authorities, major telecom equipment suppliers, telephone service providers and agents. By integrating with Tatung Group’s ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities, TTC capitalizes on an over 80-year tradition of manufacturing expertise and exacting quality control standards to maintain the precision and superior quality of its telecommunications products.

Tatung InfoComm recently announced its aim to solicit up to one million WiMAX subscribers in five years. The company will officially launch its commercial WiMAX service later this month starting in Penghu, a group of small islands west of Taiwan according to company chairman WS Lin. Tatung will then expand its service areas to include Kaohsiung area in July and to cover Hualien and Tatung areas in August, according to company president Peter Yen. Tatung will also continue to increase its investment in related WiMAX infrastructure with capex likely to exceed NT$5 billion (US$147.5 million) over the next three years. In addition to commercial WiMAX services in the Penghu islands, Tatung on April 21 also started official operation of a WiMAX network on the campus of Tatung University, an affiliate of the Tatung Group. Tatung’s WiMAX equipment partner Alcatel-Lucent helped set up the WiMAX network, the first to be established on a Taiwan campus. The network is intended to serve as a platform for R&D, like the one from Clearwire in Silicon Valley, and is accessible by more than 4,000 students and professors.

Milestones

2006… Read the rest

Huawei

admin on September 23, 2009 | 6 comments

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is the largest networking and telecommunications equipment supplier in China. It is headquartered in Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong. Established in 1988 by Ren Zhengfei, Huawei Technologies is a private high-tech enterprise which specializes in research and development (R&D), production and marketing of communications equipments, and providing customized network solutions for telecom carriers. Since 2001 Huawei has started IEEE 802.16 standard tracking and key technology research and has contributed 5% core technology related patents.

Huawei’s WiMAX serves 35 of the top 50 telecoms operators including STC in Saudi Arabia, Vodacom in South Africa, Augere/FT in Pakistan, Telefonica in Morocco. The company puts 10% of revenue into R&D each year. In addition to the R&D centers in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Xi’an, Chengdu, and Wuhan in China, Huawei also has R&D centers in Stockholm, Sweden; Dallas and Silicon Valley, U.S.; Bangalore, India; Ferbane in Offaly, Ireland; Moscow, Russia; Jakarta, Indonesia. There are more than 2000 engineers engaged in WiMAX R&D. Huawei provides various WiMAX solution including Base Stations, Network Management System and Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs). Huawei’s total number of WiMAX contracts had reached 31 in September 2008, ranking Huawei in first place for global WiMAX 16e commercial network contracts. Huawei also has become a major vendor in Europe, where it has won numerous contracts with players such as Vodafone and Orange. And Huawei has gained a foothold in Canada, where it is building third-generation networks for BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Telus Corp.

In March 2009, the Wimax Forum announced four new members to its Board of Directors including Thomas Lee, the Vice Director of the Industry Standards Department at Huawei.

Huawei said on June, 01 it expected a huge sales boost over the next 19 months from Wimax equipment sales overseas and the rollout of third generation (3G) networks domestically. “This year it will be around $500 million … and next year it should be around $1 billion,” said Zhao, who reckons sales will continue to grow rapidly in emerging markets where fixed line networks are poorly developed. The company only had about $150 million in Wimax equipment sales in 2007, but falling prices have put the maturing technology within the grasp of millions of users, said Zhao. “You can now find terminal prices of under $100,” he said. The price for such hardware — which allows broadband connections … Read the rest

Proxim

Eliza Nguyen on September 23, 2009 | 3 comments

Proxim Wireless Corporation (public-NASDAQ: PRXM) is a provider of end-to-end broadband wireless systems that provides wireless solutions for the mobile industry, security and surveillance, voice and data backhaul, as well as public hot spots. Proxim’s portfolio encompasses deployment of technologies such as WLAN, Wi-Fi mesh, WiMAX (point-to-multipoint), and point-to-point in the United States and internationally.

Proxim’s focus applications are

* Cellular Data, Voice & Video Backhaul – High-performance wireless point-to-point backhaul connections for carriers and wireless ISPs

* Last-mile connectivity – Wi-Fi and WiMAX access for both enterprises and consumers

* Security and surveillance – Systems including video surveillance, gunshot location and perimeter security

* Enterprise WLAN – Wireless access and building-to-building campus connectivity

* Public Safety – In-field mobile data access for public safety officers, field service technicians and other mobile field workers

Significant Developments

Date	Event	Details
7/01/2008	Address Change	The company relocated from 2115 O’Neal Dr., San Jose, CA 95131 to 1561 Buckeye Dr., Milpitas, CA 95035.
1/14/2008	Top Executive Change	Pankaj S. Manglik succeeded Robert E. Fitzgerald, who resigned.
9/10/2007	Name Change	Name Change The company changed its name from Terabeam, Inc. to Proxim Wireless Corporation.
11/07/2005	Name Change	Name Change The company changed its name from YDI Wireless, Inc. to Terabeam, Inc.
11/07/2005	Exchange/Ticker Change	The company changed from NASDAQ (SC):YDIW (Trading) to NASDAQ (SC):TRBM (Trading).

Executives

Pankaj Manglik – Chief Executive Officer

Tom Twerdahl – Chief Financial Officer

Geoffrey L. Smith – Vice President, Marketing and Business Development

Steven Kum – Vice President, Technical

David L. Renauld – Vice President, Secretary

Quick Facts

Headquarters : Milpitas, California
Company Size : 201-500 employees
NASDAQ : PROX
Founded : 1979

… Read the rest

Alvarion

admin on September 23, 2009 | 8 comments

Alvarion is a worldwide provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband network solutions with about 3 million units deployed in 150 countries, headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company has strategic relationships with Siemens, Alcatel- Lucent, Nera, and IBM. Alvarion was founded in 1992. It was formerly known as BreezeCOM, Ltd. and changed its name to Alvarion, Ltd. in 2001.

Alvarion’s products are designed to enable the delivery of personal mobile broadband, business and residential primary broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality telephony, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection and public safety communications. Leveraging its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and with experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, Alvarion’s work in the WiMAX Forum™ is focused on increasing the widespread adoption of standard-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading the entire industry to Open WiMAX solutions.

In February 2009, Alvarion joined the Open Patent Alliance (OPA) along with other members of the WiMAX ecosystem to encourage healthy growth in the WiMAX market.

In May 2009, Alvarion began applying WiMAX technology to the development of smart grids through several pilot projects.

In June 2009, Alvarion announced that it was chosen by Mobitel to set up 802.16e WiMAX solutions to areas in Nigeria that lack sufficient Internet service. Alvarion planned to deploy WiMAX networks in two stages: first in the key Nigerian cities of Lagos, Port-Harcourt, Warri, and Abuja, and then in eighteen other states in the country. Mobitel used Alvarion’s BreezeMAX solution to bring voice and high-data services to the area by Q3 2009. Also in June 2009, Alvarion was selected by Hafslund to deploy Mobile WiMAX in Norway, and by Telikom PNG to deploy the first nation-wide Mobile WiMAX network in Papua New Guinea. Alvarion is expected to provide coverage for 1,500 Papua New Guinea users.

On June 15, 2009, Alvarion was chosen by GO Mobile to deploy a WiMAX network throughout Malta. GO Mobile used Alvarion’s 4Motion solution to roll out the network.

Significant Developments

Executives

Chairman – Anthony T. Maher

President and CEO – Tzvika (Tzvi) Friedman

President and CEO – Eran Gorev

CFO – Efrat Makov

VP Research and Development – Eli Bortman

Quick Facts

Formerly did business as: Breezecom Ltd.; Lannair Ltd

Company Type: Public – NASDAQ (GM): ALVR

Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Israel

Employees: 976 (in 2008)

Year Of Founding or Change In Control: 1992… Read the rest

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