Nortel Ties up With ZyXEL Communications

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Nortel has selected ZyXEL Communications to deliver broadband wireless communications solutions around the world based on WiMAX technology.

Nortel has selected ZyXEL Communications, one of the world's leading device manufacturers, to join the growing ecosystem of companies working with Nortel to deliver broadband wireless communications solutions around the world based on WiMAX technology.

Nortel is also working with leading WiMAX chipset manufacturers to include chipsets, which will enable WiMAX capabilities in a variety of devices, in Nortel's end-to-end WiMAX solutions.

A strong WiMAX ecosystem is important to meeting the mobility demands in the era of Hyperconnectivity where everything that can be connected to the network, will be connected, encompassing person-to-person communication, person-to-machine and machine-to-machine.

Nortel's WiMAX ecosystem will allow service providers to take advantage of the opportunities of a hyperconnected world with end-to-end solutions delivering the high-bandwidth capacity and super-fast transmission speeds essential to real-time mobile applications such

as VoIP and video. The true mobile broadband experience that can be offered over WiMAX delivers the potential to participate in a video-conference from a mobile phone while waiting for a flight, or to let the kids pass the time on long road trips by playing on-line video games from the backseat of the car.

"The development of a complete WiMAX ecosystem, including infrastructure, chipsets and devices, is integral to the real world success of WiMAX
technology," said General Manager, Nortel WiMAX and Wireless Mesh and Chairman, LG-Nortel JV, Peter MacKinnon. "Nortel is driving the development of its WiMAX ecosystem by supporting and pursuing relationships with leading device and chipset anufacturers like ZyXEL,Runcom and Sequans, to name a few."

Nortel will work with ZyXEL, Runcom, Sequans and others to offer service providers a variety of end to end WiMAX solutions. These solution offerings will include ZyXEL PCMCIA cards and customer premises equipment (CPE), such as