ITU Approves WiMAX Tech as IMT-2000 Standard
November 2, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The Radiocommunication sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-R) approved worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) technology as an International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) standard.
The decision to approve the WiMAX Forum's version of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard 802.16 as an IMT-2000 technology escalates opportunities for global deployment within the 2.5-2.69 GHz band to deliver mobile Internet for rural and urban market demand, according to the WiMAX Forum.
Originally created to harmonize third generation (3G) mobile systems and to increase opportunities for worldwide interoperability, the IMT-2000 family of standards will support four different access technologies including Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) (includes WiMAX), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), said the WiMAX Forum.
"3G solutions based upon technologies such as [Wideband CDMA] W-CDMA, CDMA-2000 and [Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access] TD-SCDMA technologies were already included in the IMT-2000 set of standards," said Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum.
"With WiMAX technology now included, it places us on equal footing with the legacy-based technologies ITU-R already endorses. …"
Source: WiMAX Forum.