060125 Growth in Number of WIMAX companies joining OBSAI

The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative, (OBSAI) first launched in 2002 with only three members has now reached 130. Over past months there has been a rise in the number of WiMax focussed companies both joining and participating in the integration of WiMax into the currently available OBSAI open interface specifications*. Over a third of the membership now has companies who actively work with WiMax technology.

Comments the OBSAI Chairperson, Tero Mustala, “A chief benefit of the OBSAI open interface specifications is that they have been devised to go beyond existing technologies so that they are virtually future proof. Evolving technologies, like WiMax and other future technologies can be successfully integrated into these specifications. We expect to have WiMax fully integrated into the full range of OBSAI specifications, by the first half of this year.”

*OBSAI has produced a comprehensive range of open internal interface specifications for base station architecture and module specifications covering the areas of Transport, Control, Base band and Radio. First version specifications can be downloaded from the public web site at www.obsai.org

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