| From: rr_burns | 1/25/2005 5:10:59 PM |
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WiMAX Test Lab Named; Certification Delayed
The WiMAX Forum has named Spanish test house Cetecom as its official certification laboratory, at the same time publicly acknowledging that the start of testing for WiMAX certification won’t start until July. Cetecom’s choice comes as small surprise, because it was Cetecom that was chosen to present the sessions on WiMAX testing at last year’s WiMAX Summit.
The Forum did not discuss the reason for the delayed start of testing, which had once been expected to start much earlier this year. During the past week or two, there had been some reports that major WiMAX silicon vendors have been running behind schedule, and that testing was delayed because of that. The allegedly delayed vendors were not confirmed, but many reports point to Intel.
However, as reported by TelecomWeb’s sister publication Broadband Business Forecast, the key reason for the delay is that the test suite documents needed to begin certification haven’t been finished. As reported, the Forum’s short cut to finishing up the work has been to negotiate a pact with ETSI to use its HiperMAN specifications, rather than to write WiMAX-specific specifications from scratch. In its announcement of the Cetecom choice, the Forum tacitly acknowledged that fact by saying Cetecom’s job would include ensuring that the equipment it tests conforms to HiperMAN as well as to WiMAX and to the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard that is the foundation of both HiperMAN and on which WiMAX as being written. It still remains unclear whether there now will be any difference between WiMAX and HiperMAN, other than some face-saving re-branding.
http://www.telecomweb.com/news/1106687756.htm
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http://www.cetecom.es/
is the url to the test site
The Wimax version of the news doesn't suggest the conclusion reached re hiperman wimax equivalence above:
see http://i-newswire.com/pr3961.html language is of tone:
Vendor equipment will undergo extensive testing by Cetecom to ensure it conforms to WiMAX profiles and the IEEE 802.16-2004 and ETSI HiperMAN standard and that it is interoperable with other WiMAX Forum Certified equipment. Certified products are critical to the ubiquitous deployment of broadband wireless access because they enable a mass market by driving price and performance to levels unachievable with proprietary equipment.
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