Greenpacket on November 23, 2010
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23 Nov – Kuala Lumpur, Greenpacket, a leading developer of next generation mobile broadband and networking solutions, fully supports WiMAX Forum’s call for Southeast Asia to adopt WiMAX to raise the region’s low broadband penetration levels at the WiMAX Forum Southeast Asia Regional Focus conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
This inaugural conference themed, “4G WiMAX in Emerging Markets – Innovation and Evolution in Delivering Broadband for All” addresses the viability of deploying successful WiMAX networks in emerging and developing markets through the region’s success showcases from the regulators, operators, and investment community perspectives.
Greenpacket, which supply WiMAX devices to 50% of the active commercial deployments in the Southeast Asia region, with the third largest WiMAX devices market share worldwide; affirms its commitment to advance WiMAX worldwide by continuing to expand its portfolio of high performance products and solutions to meet the needs of WiMAX operators globally.
According to Kelvin Lee, Senior General Manager of Green Packet Berhad, with a robust and flourishing ecosystem in place, the WiMAX technology can offer global economies of scale lowering cost for operators and end-users compared to other wireless technologies. He said that the cost of WiMAX devices has come down by 30% over the past two years.
Lee said, “There is tremendous potential for WiMAX growth in Southeast Asia because the technology presents compelling propositions for operators to meet this region’s high speed broadband needs and at the same time, cater to the varied market segments with fixed to nomadic and quad play offerings including mobile wireless VoIP.
As a leading vendor in the WiMAX ecosystem, we understand the connection needs and operation management for different market segments. We also understand operators’ needs at different levels in their WiMAX deployment cycle.”
Lauding the launch of SIRIM QAS International WiMAX Forum Designated Certification Lab at the conference, Lee commented that Greenpacket was thrilled to see WiMAX Forum working with SIRIM for the first WiMAX certification lab here in South Asia and the seventh in the world.
“We believe that this development greatly underlines increased demand for WiMAX and the technology’s healthy device ecosystem. We hope to see a further boost to the number of WiMAX products coming out in the market in the near future. We are also proud to have a certification lab here where Greenpacket is headquartered, marking the recognition of Malaysia as the region’s 4G WiMAX hub,” said Lee.
Greenpacket has nine operations worldwide to support its growing international customer base of over 35 operators in 29 countries. It is potentially the only 4G WiMAX vendor with a complete portfolio of devices and solutions to meet the needs of both green and brown field operators.
On the future of 4G WiMAX, Lee enthused, “We see the demand for data exploding—, and 4G is all about data. Because of this, the future of WiMAX devices is limitless. Netbooks and laptops now have WiMAX embedded chips and can further be extended to consumer electronics, digital cameras, home entertainment systems, utility meters, appliances, and so on. Users can then connect, entertain, stay informed, and be productive wherever they go. These devices need the kind of speed that only WiMAX can offer now.”
Greenpacket offer operators an integrated and highly customizable solution for all stages of their growth while deploying 4G WiMAX. It boasts a wide array of 4G WiMAX products and solutions with a comprehensive suite of high-performance indoor, outdoor and USB dongle WiMAX modems across the 2.3-3.5GHz frequencies. The modems come with value-adds such as built-in Wi-Fi and VoIP ports, or pre-installed intelligent connection manager software to enable seamless Wi-Fi-WiMAX roaming. Also included in its portfolio, is an economical range for operators targeting to lower the cost barrier to entry to encourage higher subscriber take-up.
All of Greenpacket’s modems are interoperability tested with leading vendors worldwide and field-tested on large-scale live networks. Its popular connection manager, ICMP, which is the No.1 connection management software in Asia, offers operators both seamless mobility and an avenue to offload data during high data traffic period.
Greenpacket will be showcasing some of its products and solutions on 23 and 24 November at the WiMAX Forum Southeast Asia Regional Focus Conference held in Ritz Carlton, Kuala Lumpur.
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